Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company benefits from an educated populace. Every company needs skilled labor. Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Competitiveness Project.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Consider Porter's value chain.

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

In the 1980s, Michael Porter built on this idea and made it more possible for managers to act on with his concept of value chains. By increasing scale companies could create efficiencies along the entire value chain through either operational excellence or bargaining power with suppliers and customers.

Strategy 9

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Being nice makes you a better leader and your company more profitable – new research proves it. In the Company of Givers and Takers. Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8