Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation. and Canada over time.

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Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Michael Porter, the world's leading authority on competition and strategy, is sometimes the victim of his own success. But in fact, most managers don't. Managers confuse differentiation with being different. Making that commitment actually improves your ability to innovate and to adapt to turbulence.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. As soon as you've discovered the next, best thing, everyone in your industry starts trying to replicate it. Consider Porter's value chain. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. London-based OMK makes "prison-worthy" seating, the industry's highest standard, using self-sealing polyurethane that can withstand a stabbing without showing the knife scar. Everyone in the industry follows the same advice.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. But is business really so competitive – not in a few prominent industries, but in the economy as a whole? But is business really so competitive – not in a few prominent industries, but in the economy as a whole?

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That’s why I was quite interested to hear about the innovative new educational credential called the “nanodegree,” announced last month with great heraldry by AT&T and Udacity, an online education company founded by a Stanford professor and former Google executive. But for students in poverty, it is not good enough.

Skills 8

Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

But had they looked at themselves from the point of view of their customers, they would have seen that they were really in the transportation and logistics business and would have better understood the challenge, and the opportunities, represented by the growing airline industry. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting.

Health Care 8

Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Economy, Industry by Industry. Rounding out the if-you-don't-understand-history-you're-doomed-to-repeat-it vein, we took a look at 50 years of turbulence in across several major industries. The Volatile U.S.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. Wesson Wang. PR played a huge role in this success. Stay focused.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

“These ideas are more than 30 years old,” managers complain. Another example comes from the restaurant industry. Porter had it figured out in the mid-1980s. “Isn’t there anything more recent?” ” Unfortunately, this question demonstrates a lack of understanding of the nature of knowledge.

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Strategy Porter Price Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Today, broadcast and cable television, print journalism, taxi cabs, and (over the longer term) oil and gas are among the industries facing formidable challengers determined to co-opt their purpose. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees. Porter and Mark R. Some companies probably aren't managing with such issues in mind.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

With agriculture making up 9 percent of the state's economy, and water shortages already threatening growth in the state's energy industry , it's not a reach to suggest that the future of the Texas economy will be tied closely to water availability. The economic cost of the drought has been incredible; Texas lost $5.2

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Manufacturing and Insourcing. Climate Change.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

With the highest median wage among newly industrialized Asian nations, the city-state also ranks first globally in worker productivity and attitude. As a result, according to HBS’s Michael Porter, Singapore developed a highly efficient civil service elite that has been able to dynamically shift policies and priorities over time.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. The most puzzling critique in the op-ed was that "construction is an important industry in neighborhoods like Dharavi. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. And that requires a real skill. We as a company will invest a huge amount of time. And not just me, our whole leadership team.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

We know this because both businesses earn returns that are reasonable for their industries. It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. So how does RBV explain the decision to split the company into two?

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

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

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. Start with Michael Porter.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

At UCB, a medium-sized pharmaceutical company headquartered in Belgium, Heresh Rezavandi and his managers Michelle Maddix-Sovero are leading a young strategic intelligence function that’s part of the strategic marketing practice. It also began innovating new services offerings to diversify its portfolio.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Are these really the game-changing innovations that they’re heralded to be? We’ve mastered it to a degree that’s profoundly unhealthy: we’ve beaten the costs out of our employees, people, managers…roles, departments, organizations, industries, sectors.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Porter Morale Class 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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. A second approach uses innovative funding models and new sources of capital to solve some of society’s most difficult problems. Competitiveness Project.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The contest is now shifting toward more-traditional industries, like transportation (Lyft and Uber, for example) and hospitality (Airbnb).

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

These donors contribute (make that "invest") vast sums to fund campaigns run by professional managers, and they control the ideas the party generates. Like any other financial industry, for example, micro lending is subject to abuse and must be regulated.) And what has this model delivered?

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Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8