Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Who has the best technology? But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Management writers — and leaders seeking to inspire — regularly reinforce it by using colorful metaphors from warfare and sports. Which one is the best? Is it the iPad? The Kindle?

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 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

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. We are living in a time of amazing technologies, but that’s arguably been true of every period since the industrial revolution.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

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. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

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

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. Professions-based education – that which ensures future employability for students – has also been a key area for investment and innovation in the country.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators. A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

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. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. So it is hard to explain this decision using the RBV.

RBV 9

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

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

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. Climate Change. “Climate change is a fact.”

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” And what does the customer value?’

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 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. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 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. 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.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Multinationals' shares of employment, capital investment, and output in the U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Conversations, not chains.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. Microsoft is in the supposedly volatile technology sector. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. Innovation Strategy'

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

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

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.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce leader, manages the world’s largest money market fund, and now plays an important role in financial and payment services. Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries.

Company 8

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. And, much more exciting, government itself is innovating to support such Big Goal efforts. And what has this model delivered?

Marketing 8

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8