Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2015

Though Nepal has an extensive fleet of helicopters to serve the tourism industry, using helicopters to deliver aid is both expensive and inefficient. With Everest closed for the season, the porters who help mountaineers transport their gear during expeditions were suddenly unemployed. To fly at high altitude, payloads must be limited.

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Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Two hundred and fifty years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, this pattern of activity plays out every day, at your local big box electronics retailer or department store. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. People leadership. When thrust into a management or leadership position, many clinicians have never hired or fired anyone in their life. Leadership development Operations management Healthcare' Health care will be markedly better for it.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

And like the rest of the media world, we rely on the metrics of our industry. 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.". We are also, of course, a business.

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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. Personal leadership is indispensable to operationalizing your purpose. ” Actively lead operationalization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. And not just me, our whole leadership team. We as a company will invest a huge amount of time.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

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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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

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

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. An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

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Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company. Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). In today’s industry, that would all be on spreadsheets. Failure to prepare for the future spells certain death for businesses and industries in which they function.

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. Hanguk’s leadership would be watching the project closely, because expansion to the Arab world was one of its top strategic objectives. More responsibility, more money, more industry exposure.

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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. Some examples include “Collective Impact” initiatives and industry cluster organizations such as the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Over 20 years ago, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter introduced the Porter hypothesis , which posits that environmental regulation can benefit companies by nudging them to explore their current production methods and eliminate costly waste that they have been blissfully unaware of.

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