Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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 9

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. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty. This is what is going on now in community development.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. Soon the goal became how to raise money, not how to support and improve the innovation. Too often, these turn out to be deadly temptations.

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Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

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?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

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.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

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

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 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company understands that we do not operate in a bubble. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

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.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Data philanthropy achieves many of the goals sought by traditional corporate social philanthropy: it allows companies to give back in a way that produces meaningful impact, and reflects the businesses’ core competencies while preserving or expanding value for shareholders. Porter and Mark R.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

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. The final result?

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

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. Health Operations' It will eventually affect every patient across the United States. Others must, too. How the Health Care World Will Change. We all know that U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9