Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

The range of challenges is immense, from creating a sense of urgency about the environment in China (Jack Ma), to providing the cost data to fix healthcare (Michael Porter), to unleashing innovation in the energy grid (Paul Kedrosky), to funding much-needed infrastructure (Laura Tyson).

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Schein Porter Project Magazine 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

Brand 14

Brand Porter Objective Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times. Consider higher education in the United States.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Social problems that are tackled as business opportunities to increase sales, reduce costs, or create meaningful competitive differentiation, however, are also the ones that have the greatest social impact. Yet no one seems to notice.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. With shared purpose, alignment happens without coordination costs.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Echanove and Srivastava also state that a $300 House "would have to be as standardized as possible to keep costs low. From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way?

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. And of course, more pressure on climate.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Today more than ever, the entrepreneur is celebrated, failure is accepted as a cost of doing business, and starting your own company is seen as a path to achieving the American Dream. Second, the actual cost of a guarantee is only the cost of the losses, giving these kinds of programs the ability to deploy large volumes of capital.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

We checked in with HBS professor Forest Reinhardt, co-chair of the school’s Global Energy Seminar, for a backgrounder on how business people are thinking about sustainability. There are always people who see environmental issues as sources of additional short-run costs and who focus on minimizing those costs.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

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Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 15