Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. But two-sided markets have actually been with us for centuries.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings. The recent failures of mass market retailers Sears and J.C. If it ain’t broke, break it. Will you confuse people?

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 12

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. Disclosure: Thomson Reuters Foundation is an FSG client; this data was compiled from interviews with Foundation staff.).

Porter 13

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

Business Model 15

Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

Porter 14

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term selling need not be based on short-term information. An informed shareholder, who looks beyond earnings numbers and analyzes the company’s intangible assets, would notice that the firm has mortgaged its future. Large shareholders – blockholders – do have incentives to gather intangible information.

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 11

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Neither school of thought, though, has it quite right.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. 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

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. about six years ago, and the emphasis was on the on software tools and platforms that increase information flow. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. Individual.

Media 10

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. For example, in recent years, the Internet eliminated the need for paper milling and production in industries that distribute information.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

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. In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things. The first is: why all the fuss with defining it?

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. 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

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

Consultative 16

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

The market has a way of taking care of that. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — " shared value " — to unify this false choice. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Business Model B2C Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. And some will only move on this when they believe the majority of investors want this sort of information.

Report 8

Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

To do that, the hotel needs to know you on a much deeper level by leveraging data and turning that data into information it can use to deliver a customized experience. These ratings are then used by company marketing departments to impress customers, thereby driving volume and revenue. It can’t rely on a checklist. Communication.

Hotels 8

Hotels Travel Porter CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000. But here again, the market does not always work perfectly on its own. That is where government can often play a critical role.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

We are also bringing students to India and Haiti to do ethnographic research that will inform development of a $300 House, and when prototypes are developed, they will be deployed and tested with those who will live in them. We simply disagree with the idea that if it's a market, it can't also be a socially progressive solution.

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook has similarly leveraged the News Feed for general purpose voter information tools on Election Day in the United States. Grossman argues for lower government barriers to disruptive business models, with stronger commitments from companies to provide data to fuel regulations informed by these companies’ actual impact.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." The new information economy is driven by the economics of networks." That's the path to riches described by W.

Strategy 10

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

Because Payola was looming as an issue in our industry, we were required to keep logs of the songs that were played, containing the labels on which they appeared, the names of the composers and other information. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. About the Author.

Learning-by-Doing 63

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

But in recent decades, the information revolution has helped the private sector speed ahead in data aggregation, analysis, and applications. For example, Uber maintains a “God’s Eye view” of every driver on the road in a city: Imagine combining this single data feed with an entire portfolio of real-time information.

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.” The implications of that insight were becoming obvious for companies that sold information, like newspapers and encyclopedias.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then a new generation of economists, with Tirole at the lead, showed that a rigorous, orthodox economic approach, if you threw in a little game theory and information asymmetry , actually delivered much more complicated results. Still, that work has continued to be informed by Tirole.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

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.

Development 13

Development Porter Banking Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. At Cleveland Clinic, we’ve been engaged in an ongoing effort to trim costs across the entire system.

Health Care 10

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Improving value can only happen when providers align the focus of their clinical teams and their market strategy on achieving excellent outcomes, and in turn invest the resources to measure and report them. Outcomes inform the composition of integrated care teams. In 2005, when Prof.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 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?

Porter 12

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 12

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.

Company 10

Company Porter Forrester Simon 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness.

Porter 16

Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Informational, International Interactions. Although the internet is a global network, it is used primarily to transmit information within national borders. Countries that are deeply connected to international information flows are less likely to view their cultures as superior. One study indicates that as few as 4% of U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8