Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

about how our business, government and consumers will meet challenges around the environments, infrastructure, and of course, the economy. This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.

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Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Sustainable success requires the right touch; sustainable digital success requires the right touchpoints. ” But Pokémon Go’s accelerating success shouldn’t obscure that touchpoint transformation is becoming a transcendental design driver for UX across industries. Of course she checked.

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Porter Environment Definition Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Porter and Jan W. Competitiveness project spearheaded by Porter and Rivkin, and by experts we've invited to participate in the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness. All those articles and blog posts are of course open for comments, and there have been some great ones. more competitive?

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Rivkin Porter Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Here's the problem: When rivals all pursue the "one best way" to compete, they find themselves on a collision course, trapped in a destructive, zero-sum competition that no one can win. Profitability deteriorates.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We are also, of course, a business. We judge our success in part by the bottom line — on our circulation, our newsstand sales, our advertising dollars. But our most important criterion for success is harder to measure. And like the rest of the media world, we rely on the metrics of our industry. And that's quality.

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Levitt Porter Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Making it cheaper and simpler to become qualified to get a well-paying job is, of course, a good idea. As Eduardo Porter noted in The New York Times , students most likely to pursue the nanodegree (and other degrees like it) are the ones who are already well educated, simply looking to switch their specialties.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

And, of course, my awesomely talented editors here at Harvard Business Review , in particular Sarah Green, without whom my manuscript would have remained little more than a series of meandering scribblings. That the lasting success of a firm, economy, or country is best measured by income — not outcomes that matter in human terms.

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Porter Short-term Senge Hamel 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. And among those firms offering more or less the same thing, we often see very different levels of success and profitability.

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McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

One then became two in 1980, when Michael Porter pointed out that there is another way to compete: differentiation. Of course, there are myriad ways to put oneself at the bottom of the delivered cash cost curve in such a market, but they all deliver the same competitive advantage: low cost. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

But when change comes suddenly, it can turn strengths into weaknesses and sweep away even thousand-year success stories. But, like a lot of successful entities, Venice reached a point where it focused more on exploitation than exploration: Venetian traders followed existing paths to success.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The way you set up a startup is indicative of the startup’s future success.”

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Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

And of course, products can now be connected with other products, leading to new analytics and new services for more effective forecasting, process optimization, and customer service experiences. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

That transformation began with Ma’s decision to launch Taobao, the consumer commerce site that would dash eBay’s hopes in China and propel the Alibaba Group to even greater success. ” It’s clear from the documentary, Crocodile in the Yangtze , that Alibaba sees a strong corporate culture as critical to its success.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Corporate plasticity is the ability to collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective and rapidly reconfigure to face new challenges — which is of course essential to operationalizing purpose in the real world, where conditions constantly change and people’s actions may yield unintended as well as intended consequences.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

But neither should they make capital-allocation decisions without regard to the long-term consequences for their own success. Of course, corporate leaders claim that they are legally bound to do everything possible to maximize shareholder value. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

During the course of covering and helping respond to disasters worldwide, Thomson Reuters Foundation staff gained first-hand visibility into a major problem: Hundreds of international nongovernmental aid organizations would rush in to distribute aid, such as water, food, blankets, and medical care. Leverage your networks. Take Cisco.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Unfortunately, the success of big firms in the U.S. Along with Michael Porter and our colleagues at Harvard Business School, I have been researching the competitiveness of the U.S. Of course, these trends are not new. In terms of inflation-adjusted dollars and as a portion of GDP, U.S. But they are real, and they are worrisome.

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Porter Long-term GDP Class 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.”

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Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. PR played a huge role in this success. If the story was shaping into something deviating from our key message, we would ramp up efforts to course correct. Wesson Wang. Keep it simple.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As you take some time to reflect, relax, and renew before the year to come, we offer you our most popular multimedia content from the year that was: podcasts, videos, slideshows, and infographics that we hope help you chart a successful course in 2012. Life's Work: HBR Interviews 10 Fascinating People.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. Over the course of the 30's, a huge population of Americans gained access to the automobile — a technology that made the corner stores' system of last mile distribution nearly obsolete.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

And of course, more pressure on climate. Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

Michael Levie, a seasoned hotel executive, and Rattan Chadha, a successful retail entrepreneur, were having dinner. Of course, developing a new model does not usually end with taking superfluous things out; a new way to compete is more than merely a stripped down version of what came before.

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Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products. Which, of course, is the most pernicious kind. Google Glass’s failure was a story of a visionary product utterly failing to be cool. Cool is not trivial. Cool is not an equation. Self-chosen.

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Fashion Advertorial Porter Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

It also stated that the design should rely as much as possible on local materials, which of course would be harvested and crafted by local workers. Finally, Echanove and Srivastava state that "The $300 house could potentially be a success story, if it was understood as a straightforward business proposal instead of a social solution.".

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. What successful companies are doing right. Knowing you need one and creating one are, of course, two vastly different things. Insight Center.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. The primary ingredient for sustaining growth is, of course, growth itself. strategic hires).

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

The questions, of course, are when, and how. What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. How do I know that?

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Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Lie #1: Target customer, "Of course I'll buy that.". My Harvard Business Review article with Procter & Gamble Chief Officer Bruce Brown, " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate ," describes how P&G uses "transaction learning experiments" to try to more accurately assess the demand of new-to-the-world ideas.

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Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Business has a key role to play in restoring America’s commons, but of course it can’t do so alone. Competitiveness Project. In the Minneapolis-St.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. Of course it was natural for a boss to have mixed feelings about seeing a valued employee move on, but David was more than Mark’s manager: He was his mentor. “That’s great news!”

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Perhaps the most notable exception is the success of Israel’s Yozma (Hebrew for “initiative”), a $100 million venture capital fund that was initially state-owned but is now privately run. Of course, in the absence of appropriate policy changes, a push to reduce e-friction could solidify the hold of U.S.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8