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

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever. In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” And modern marketing makes zombies. It’s not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Consistent with our original purpose, our goal today is to acquire and publish the world's best ideas for improving the practice of management. There certainly is no shortage of candidates from our nine decades of publishing — from Ted Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" to Michael Porter's "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.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

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

If, as Michael Porter wrote , competitive advantage stems from how “activities fit and reinforce one another… creating a chain that is as strong as its strongest link,” then strategic fit is something that the Venetian Republic had in spades.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ). Instead, it entails reconceiving a company's product and markets, reinventing its value chain, and strengthening the productivity of the communities in which it operates.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. Out of 4,000 applicants per year, only 100 are chosen.)

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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. There has been much talk about creating social or shared value in recent years. This is a basic tenet of persuasiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. This point has gone relatively unheeded in the US and Europe as the economic cycle’s impact on the job market has left people willing to accept any paid work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. The rising tide of New Capitalism, what Michael Porter calls " shared value " and what Umair Haque calls " thick value ," is perhaps the most important reaction to the corruption and greed that spurred the most recent global economic crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. However, the new framework gets us closer to that goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S.

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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.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet. The companies own the access to the channels of communication.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be.

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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. Altogether, the model is employed in 15 markets, impacting over 5.5 This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The term was coined by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer , and reflects the view that business and community interests can be in sync. In particular, Porter and Kramer argue that businesses should search for those opportunities where value can be created for business by improving community well-being.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. The goal of value-based care is to fix that. But one breakthrough that will change the face of medicine is being slowed by criticism, misunderstanding, and a reluctance to do things differently. Others must, too.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Outcomes define the goal of the organization and set direction for its differentiation. Few health care organizations have made it their explicit goal to deliver excellent outcomes. Many institutions are overwhelmed by the change required and don’t know where to begin. In 2005, when Prof.

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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. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

With six to eight boutiques opening every day, at prices 50 percent below retail, Mack says the goal is to make every day "Black Friday" — without selling out too fast given the 72-hour lifetime of each boutique. In less than two years, it has attracted three million "members" who collectively spend over $100 million a year.

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Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The way in which we market presidents is broken, much like the way that we traditionally market businesses is broken. I say "market" presidents rather than "select" them because the way in which an organization commits to market its products and services can substantially determine the quality of the product it produces and sells.

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