Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. Dr Paulina Chan, chairperson of CMI Hong Kong, then presented her Report of the Chair and reviewed the broad portfolio of activities achieved in the year 2020–2021 under the theme of ‘Reaching Local, Bridging Global’. Event details here.

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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 strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. In Porter’s view , “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” Martin Reeves and Georg Wittenburg.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At the same time, the federal and state governments understand that their budgets can't muster all the ideas, products and services that are needed to solve the problems facing us. This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. 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 ).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Why give customers cheese when you can sell them “cheese-like product”? Not in the awful, misused corporate sense of the term: dully lecturing them about “product benefits.” ” But the goal of a digital business strategy is connection. Consider Mr Porter , the man-cousin of Net-a-Porter.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Arsenal, an advanced naval munitions factory that anticipated by several centuries the production-line method of manufacture, was the beating heart of the Venetian naval industry. They know the goal is not to chase a fixed horizon but to understand when and how the horizon moves as they approach it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

The ultimate goal should be for all employees to find meaning in their daily work. Employees at every level can see and take pride in the way their company’s new products, strategies, and operational choices advance a clear social purpose. Nike is about fitness. IBM is about a smarter planet.

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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. The gains in manufacturing productivity at both multinationals and other U.S. economy, these trends are alarming.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Conversations, not chains. Because that's the point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

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. Other groups courted the organization because it could bring funding, not because of a commitment to the innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

The term was coined by Michael Porter to denote a broader goal for businesses than share holder value; companies operating with a shared value mindset prioritize business investments that also produce social value – and prioritize social investments that also produce business value.

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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.

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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. There’s a business logic to mobilizing customers.

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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. strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

If dead, despotic French emperors are not really your style, Michael Porter said it like this: “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”. Myth 1: Productivity is the goal. Productivity is about getting things done. In the face of all that unpleasantness, it is tempting to continue striving for productivity.

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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

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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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. Billboards can topple in a storm.

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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. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model. What makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In short, every company benefits from “the commons,” the set of communal resources that allow firms and workers to be productive. But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project.

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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. Now, as part of the purchasing process, dozens of doctors gather to discuss the merits of certain products: Which ones provide the best outcomes for patients?

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

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. Apple builds inspiring products. Kennedy's goal to land a man on the moon ? Tackle big goals: Yes we can.

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