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.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. What skills should we pursue to suit our future needs?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is what is going on now in community development. Meanwhile, a second trend is the growing eagerness of the private sector to play a genuine and substantial role in community development. Big trends in business and society tend to march along at a measured pace.

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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. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems.

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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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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. But in a connected world, products are no longer one-and-done.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. ” Develop corporate plasticity. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Why give customers cheese when you can sell them “cheese-like product”? What every institution needs  —  and what every leader needs to develop  —  before a “digital strategy” is a human strategy. You must help them develop into the people they were meant to be.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Scarcer jobs and diminishing wages can only lead to greater inequality and global instability.

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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 firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

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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.

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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. It's been developed to satisfy your customers given the technological landscape of the day.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Most of the artists working on Broadway are working on more than one production in a year, sometimes more than one production at a time. As such, artists develop a broad and interconnected network of relationships and can find themselves working with lots of old colleagues or teams of whole new people.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. It is a conquest of market or market sector region, product by product, demographics or economic class. There is a lesson here for business. The military head-to-head battle strategy has a business equivalent.

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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.

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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. Second, the issues are complex.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

billion in agricultural production alone. The first corporate water footprint was jointly published by SABMiller and WWF in 2009, and since then Coca-Cola, Nestle, and UPM-Kymmene, and others have published footprints for key product lines. The economic cost of the drought has been incredible; Texas lost $5.2

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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. From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

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. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

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. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

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. Clayton Christensen likes to describe how, in the early stage of theory development, people make predictions based on observed correlations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

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"). co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. With experience, firms increase the efficiency and quality of their production. Every organization learns with experience.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. Redesigning products to meet environmental standards or social needs offers new business opportunities.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. The graveyard of startups is filled with innovators lured by glamour to let others take over their concept before it was fully developed. organization that could also be a customer.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. Before mass production, no organization had achieved or could achieve the kind of scale the industrial revolution enabled. Beyond that, the rest is up for grabs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Michael Porter and I recognized this limitation in our work studying the organization and structure of cancer-care delivery and published a case study that aims to track the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. Get authentic patient voices in the room.

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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. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. So let's try to disambiguate the terms so we all know what we're talking about.

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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. A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. It was still not clear that the model made sense.”

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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. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes.

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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).

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