Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” You must help them develop into the people they were meant to be.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft.

Strategy 12

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

Porter 13

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do? Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. To deliver goods and services at that singular instance, industries will adopt production and distribution models. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Levitt agreed, noting that the trouble starts when over time companies come to define themselves not by what they do for customers but by the products they sell or the categories in which they compete.

Levitt 10

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal.

Porter 12

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

billion in agricultural production alone. The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. The economic cost of the drought has been incredible; Texas lost $5.2

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At the same time, the federal and state governments understand that their budgets can't muster all the ideas, products and services that are needed to solve the problems facing us. 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

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

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

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Arsenal, an advanced naval munitions factory that anticipated by several centuries the production-line method of manufacture, was the beating heart of the Venetian naval industry. The next opportunity (or threat) may lie outside those walls, at the messy intersection of sectors and markets.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. At Adidas, CEO Herbert Hainer oversaw the implementation of a triple-bottom-line philosophy, a massive push to slash the company's carbon footprint, and the increased use of recycled polyester as well as sustainably farmed cotton in products. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

Company 9

Company Long-term Porter CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

Automotive 8

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. 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"). Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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. 3-D Printing Will Change the World.

Management 17

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 8

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. professional organizations. organization that could also be a customer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. The company still has its capital.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

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. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. It was still not clear that the model made sense.” Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. private-sector research and development. private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s. of all U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

These Maps are an outgrowth of exciting new work by strategy scholars developing a mathematical model of firm strategy that I refer to as the Value Capture Model (VCM). Since the mid-1800s all the way through Michael Porter, people have been encouraged to think of "competition" as a persistent driver of profit erosion - that is, as a threat.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Analysis Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Scaling Up Manizales ( Manizales-Más in Spanish), an economic development coalition of local institutions and the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform (BEEP), which I created and lead, was launched in 2012 with the ambitious aim of revolutionizing the pursuit of opportunity. strategic hires).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. There’s a business logic to mobilizing customers.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 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.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

Marketing 10

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Business development. However, the manual writing of spreadsheets gave us the chance to digest and learn from the information, developing the skills to better program for our audience. Yet, the hits had identifiable traits of a Bacharach production. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

Amazon’s highly visible search for a second headquarters has offered one tremendous public benefit: it has raised public awareness of what bad economic development is. Help small- and middle-market firms scale. Melissa Ross/Getty Images.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Porter Incentives Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

One company that I worked with found that the accuracy of market forecasts for new-to-the-world ideas was roughly equivalent to using the results of a random number generator. Alternatively, consider a way to get a customer to pay for an early version of a product. Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.".

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. million people.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. How many are needed?

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Over 20 years ago, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter introduced the Porter hypothesis , which posits that environmental regulation can benefit companies by nudging them to explore their current production methods and eliminate costly waste that they have been blissfully unaware of.

Company 8

Company Porter Forrester Simon 8