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Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 8, 2011
Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter. The Price of Life?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2014
In traditional product companies, creating value meant identifying enduring customer needs and manufacturing well-engineered solutions. And when feature innovation eventually proved to be too incremental, price competition would ensue, and products would become obsolete. Competition was largely feature-versus-feature warfare.
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2012
Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Huge retailers such as Walmart and Target also use scale to keep their purchasing costs down and their prices competitive.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2012
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. But even with its ability to sustain lower prices, the new model had little support.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2014
The executive needs a quiet method whereby he alone can anticipate, develop, and test the consequences of following various of his intuitive hunches before publicly committing himself to a course of action,” Miller says, before he even begins to explain how the technology works.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
billion in agricultural production alone. Water is one of the world's most glaring commercial anomalies, with a price reflecting nothing more than the costs to extract and distribute it. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream.
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