Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco. Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As one of my executive MBA students recently told me, “I know that I have to carve out more time to think strategically about my business, but all my peers are executing to hilt and I don’t want to fall behind.”. Below are six tips that came out of a conversation with my executive MBAs: 1. Keep the time to evolve your work.”.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.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. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

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. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

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

MARCH 2, 2011

Like Satan in the book of Job, I've been going to and fro in the earth over the past few months, in my case talking to corporate executives, consultants, and former consultants. Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. Monitor & Co., Of course not," he replied.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

Marketing 11

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” Perhaps U.S. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8