Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. I'm fixated on it because the blurring of lines is among the defining characteristics of the business environment of the past couple of decades.

PR 9

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This was a period when large numbers of politicians and voters in the English-speaking world developed a sense that governments were failing to solve social problems. This isn’t just a developed-world phenomenon. It’s not always so easy to break the tradeoff between sustainability issues and developing-world growth.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. Hence the development of the Playbook, an array of new approaches that can be tailored to meet the specific situation.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Progressive businesses like Salesforce.com and SAS Canada are moving toward a new marketing model in which customers sell, market and participate heavily in helping develop innovative solutions for them. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.

Marketing 8

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes. It’s analyzing processes, measuring outcomes, and changing practices until you get it right. The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Business leaders have recognized a changing, more protectionist environment, but instead of seeking to change that, they are mostly accepting it. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. Perhaps U.S. than boosting overall economic growth.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. I’ll have 25 developers reporting to me.” David was the president of the U.S.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8