Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — “ shared value ” — to unify this false choice. The historical division between social and non-social business and “purpose” vs. “profits” is artificial and antiquated.

Business Model 175

Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. Strategy : In this chapter they look at the business model environment: context, design drivers, and constraints. Then delving into questions like, how should your business model evolve in light of a changing environment?

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The topic of conversation was the hotel industry. Both men thought that the industry was stale and too homogeneous relative to the diversity of customers it sought to serve. The industry had largely been unaltered since the onset of hotel chains over half a century ago. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. In industry after industry, Porter notes that economies of scale are exhausted at a relatively small share of industry sales.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

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. My premise in writing Understanding Michael Porter was very simply that clear strategic thinking is essential for any manager in any setting, and Porter's work lays out the basic principles and frameworks you need to master.

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Porter Strategy Competitive Advantage P&L 15

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.

Porter 19

Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Michael Porter has done us all a service in identifying that the wealth of modern economies comes from the productivity, innovation and high wages found in their clustered industries — those industries that are found only in certain geographic areas and trade most of their output outside their home areas, both nationally and internationally.

Creativity 15

Creativity Porter Industry Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

As soon as you've discovered the next, best thing, everyone in your industry starts trying to replicate it. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a strategy — a difficult to replicate, cogent set of practices in an industry — that assumes everyone will have the advantages of being the biggest.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

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.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

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.

Innovation 150

Innovation Porter Transportation Tourism 150

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Lest you think I'm being hyperbolic, reflect for a moment on a small laundry list of what industrial-age capitalism hasn't been able to achieve in America during the last decade. That industrial age efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness are the right denominators of next-generation competitiveness. Creating net jobs.

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Porter Short-term Senge Hamel 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Michael Porter is credited with (or more often accused of) creating TPS in 1980 —positing that a firm should think about positioning itself in its industry in a way that enables it to achieve competitive advantage. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

RBV 8

RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And yet this illusion to which we so desperately cleave — health care is a private industry! And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to. running according to free-market efficiencies! Adam Smith 4eva! — has now put American employers in an untenable position.

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 21

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 14, 2016

” But Pokémon Go’s accelerating success shouldn’t obscure that touchpoint transformation is becoming a transcendental design driver for UX across industries. My current favorite example comes from Net-a-Porter reaching out to my wife. ” Touchpoint form follows touchpoint function. Nothing clever there.

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Porter Environment Definition Course 8

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.

Business Model 14

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

As Eduardo Porter noted in The New York Times , students most likely to pursue the nanodegree (and other degrees like it) are the ones who are already well educated, simply looking to switch their specialties. offers about one-tenth the apprenticeships of other industrialized nations.) See this Harvard Business Review article.

Skills 8

Skills Porter Education Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Michael Porter and Co. Tesco’s Michael Holmes on Staying Agile in a Changing Industry (BCG Perspectives). As Jan Zijderveld, head of Unilever's European business, told the Financial Times Deutschland, the new strategy is necessary because "Poverty is returning to Europe.". — by Amy Bernstein. BONUS BITS:: Expert Advice.

Stress 15

Stress Porter Agility Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

I innocently follow up by asking the last time an industry upstart called looking to license a corporate brand (typical answer: never). Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. The next contender is typically scale.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

I innocently follow up by asking the last time an industry upstart called looking to license a corporate brand (typical answer: never). Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. The next contender is typically scale.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

The fact that any of these theories could be true – and based on the share price movement, all of them are being applauded – says three important things about the nature of industries and competition today: Industries are increasingly irrelevant; it’s now the ecosystem that matters. They can – and will – do things differently.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

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.

Levitt 8

Levitt Porter Management Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. This is laudable, but I would argue somewhat safety-net oriented, as Audi is merely joining its competitors in an inevitable trend for the automobile industry.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Within Innosight, where I lead venture investing, the report led to an invigorating debate about the industry. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

To deliver goods and services at that singular instance, industries will adopt production and distribution models. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. Everything. Think about this.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

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 24, 2013

If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. Yet, at the same time, we see many industries in which firms do more or less the same thing.

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McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Continuum is deliberate about securing clients from a variety of fields, so that designers are exposed to a diverse set of design and business challenges and can cross-pollinate ideas from different industries, life experiences, and cultural perspectives. The results speak for themselves.

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Team Diversity Porter Project 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. They tend to focus on the obvious and most easily measured benefits (lower wage costs, tax rates, etc.)

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Benchmarking Cost-Benefit Analysis Analysis Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Strategy guru and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School elegantly articulated this when he wrote that strategy is both what we choose to do — and what we choose not to do.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

Another example comes from the restaurant industry. Porter had it figured out in the mid-1980s. .” So Mark Warner only pays about 50 euros per week in cash…and even this is dependent on the employee completing his or her contract.

Strategy 8

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. 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

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 15

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. Give them feedback on what you are hearing about their articles from colleagues and partners in the industry.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8