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JUNE 18, 2015

Matt’s team concentrated on developing a system to get aid to remote villages in the heavily-damaged Gorkha region. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. Help one family? One village? Damaged roads restricted vehicle access.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this regard, a closer examination of the value concept confirms its appeal but also exposes the daunting challenges facing health system reformers. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Equally challenging is the lack of data systems to support outcome measurement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Consider these examples: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system. Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. There is a lesson here for business.

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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. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. We must strive to move beyond our own experiences. Get authentic patient voices in the room.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It’s 1969 on this season’s Mad Men, and a glass-enclosed climate-controlled room is being built to house Sterling Cooper’s first computer — a soon-to-be-iconic IBM System/360 – in the space where the copywriters used to meet.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. That's the good news.

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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. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. But they can also include property or patents or brands or contracts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

” The men thought that these customers, on arrival, really did not need a porter to pick up their luggage and carry it to their room – after all, they had likely just brought it all the way from the airport on their own. citizenM explicitly used analogical reasoning to develop new elements in its hotels.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

After 1850, the markedly different system that he called managerial capitalism emerged. This is what all managers in all firms aspire to — it is the holy grail that lies at the end of the search for excellence, and the promise of Michael Porter's teachings. Fat cats just don't fight like alley cats.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

private-sector research and development. They include a weak K-12 education system; inadequate worker skills; a shortage of workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; restrictions on skilled immigrants; the crumbling infrastructure and a high corporate tax rate. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

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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. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

One industry standard promoted by a ratings agency, for example, is that a porter or bellman must “explain features and functions” of a room when delivering your luggage. This requirement often has employees pointing at televisions, saying, “Here’s the TV.”

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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. .” That’s a concept Drucker introduced in a 1994 HBR article that in fact never mentions the term business model. That is it may be new in either end.”

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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. Patents are already in the public record).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The most basic function of a financial system is to price money. It's the norms that you and I endorse, every second of every day, with every tiny decision we make, that value money over meaning; privilege over purpose; expedience over development; convenience over sophistication; McPleasure over eudaimonia; system over existence.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. The project team developed TDABC process maps at the three locations. Select a project team. Engage local physicians.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

.” These organizations are accepting the fact that the volume-driven system is in its dying days, and that the future will demand that they deliver demonstrably better value: improved outcomes, lower costs, or both. As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Patients’ confidence in their own decision making also improved.

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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. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.

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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. It is too little, too late.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. Governments could also work with the private sector to reduce “e-friction,” forces that prevent countries from developing strong digital economies.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Cross-country evidence shows that higher education levels in a country cause levels of nationalism and suspicion of outsiders to decrease; one study found this to be true in 10 countries with quite different educational systems. What role globalization has played in all this is a matter for debate. than boosting overall economic growth.

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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.

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