Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Rosabeth Moss Kanter are among those who have asserted that companies should care about their impact on employees, communities, and the planet as they pursue profit. His particular passion was clean energy, and he was happy so long as it got greater traction. Tyson was provocative.

Insurance 9

Insurance Business Model Long-term Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

The ultimate goal should be for all employees to find meaning in their daily work. Yet no one seems to notice. Often these efforts do not make much difference to employees nor achieve significant social impact. This requires the CEO and board to articulate a social purpose that goes beyond creating value for shareholders.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times. I'd suggest three practical questions to ask in sorting through how to achieve important social goals.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In this story, that giant sucking sound you hear is the draining of time and energy from the core business by tempting almost-related opportunities. Soon the goal became how to raise money, not how to support and improve the innovation. Strategy is what you don''t do, not just what you do , as my HBS colleague Michael Porter has said.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. Our goal is neither to start yet another charity — one of our advisers, Paul Polak, tells us that "you can't donate your way out of poverty" — nor to start just another business.

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

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.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. By loving TEDx, a volunteer army of people are saying they believe that smart ideas that get people to think more about their world is a cause worth putting energy into. Conversations, not chains.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10