Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

But is business really so competitive – not in a few prominent industries, but in the economy as a whole? As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. industry truly did face intense competition. The macro numbers tell a very different story. Washington, D.C.,

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

For $200 a month and in less than a year, students can receive online training that prepares them for immediate entry into technology jobs. Like Mr. Porter, I believe that education needs to be tied to real-life work experiences — especially if it is going to give low-income students a leg up. See this Harvard Business Review article.

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Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models. All the strengths you had worked so hard to build no longer mattered.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. With the highest median wage among newly industrialized Asian nations, the city-state also ranks first globally in worker productivity and attitude.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

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.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Monitor & Co., Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers. He is based in New York City and Boston.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

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.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

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

MAY 25, 2011

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit.

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

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. If they are doing a story about a service you provide, offer up some hand-picked customer and industry references. By keeping the number small, our hands-on approach was more manageable. Wesson Wang. Stay focused.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

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.” 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

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

The most puzzling critique in the op-ed was that "construction is an important industry in neighborhoods like Dharavi. We do support other applications for low-cost housing — bringing these dwellings back to the industrialized world for hurricane relief, for example, would be a reverse innovation success story.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Still, as military experts will tell you, air campaigns don’t win wars.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 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

JUNE 23, 2017

Of all industries, insurance has a unique opportunity to align its commercial interests with preventive behaviors. 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.

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Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. Of course it was natural for a boss to have mixed feelings about seeing a valued employee move on, but David was more than Mark’s manager: He was his mentor. David was the president of the U.S.

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 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

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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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Industries have become boundless. In the 1980s, Michael Porter built on this idea and made it more possible for managers to act on with his concept of value chains. His ideas provided managers with a blueprint for building competitive advantage. The world envisioned by Coase and Porter was relatively stable.

Strategy 9

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

You can find both of those groups in any period, any industry, any geography. For the energy industry, obviously, the discussion has been around a cap and trade system—or, more generally, a regulatory system that creates incentives for companies to emit less carbon dioxide. If you go back to the post-war years in the U.S.,

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Price Constraint Resources Cost 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