Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Ever since the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was signed in 1999, satellite companies like DMC International Imaging have had a clear protocol with which to provide valuable imagery to public actors in times of crisis. Below is satellite imagery the company provided to Algeria to help track the spread of locusts.).

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Companies realize there will be serious challenges to American competitiveness if major issues such as the environment are not addressed with new initiatives. This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

The internet and globalization have combined to render almost every company vulnerable to greater competition than ever. As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. The more competition a company faces, the harder it is to make money. Those competitive advantages are real.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. In the Company of Givers and Takers.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. The company finally began to move in this direction in 2000, but too late to thwart Amazon.

Christensen 15

Christensen Education Discount Class 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Strategy has triumphed, the installed base is huge, no self-respecting company would be without one. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

So activists and consumers increasingly looked directly at companies themselves for changes in how natural resources were used. What are some recent ways that companies have responded to sustainability challenges? Nobody had put a price on the fish—it was free if you had the tools to get it. Fisheries, for example.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. In better times, companies are attracted to ideas that help them do their work more effectively. Link the New to the Old.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

"This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.". Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurers, along with public services, can directly “monetize” better individual behavior as healthier or safer individual outcomes, lower claims costs, and improve risk pools, which can be translated into lower-priced premiums and a competitive advantage in the marketplace. million people.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9