Innovation, Marketing, Porter and Trends

Is Canada's Innovation Performance Really So Bad?

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's Innovation Imperative. It paints a worrying picture of Canadian innovation. As Martin wrote, "This comes from a poor innovation record. The following graph plots the resulting innovation index for Australia, the U.S.

Innovation

Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model

Business Model Review Books Innovation

Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. Which of these are impeding growth (or representing untapped markets)? But trampolines propel things forward.

Porter

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

Business Model

Business Model Review Books Innovation

How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically. Share repurchases immediately and directly impact price and earnings in a way that longer-term investments in growth and innovation do not.

Politics

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend. So what are we to do?

GDP

GDP Porter Education Globalization

What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

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.

PR

PR Press Release Report Porter

Getting Real About Health Care Value

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. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term

Water's Economics as Muddy as Ever

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The trend is clear globally as well. The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. It's a desert. If the models are right, then the Southwest will face a permanent drying out.".

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter

Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. 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. economy, these trends are alarming.

Globalization

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends

How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

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

Health Care Insurance Price Cost

HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Below are a few of our most popular pieces covering nascent trends and new opportunities. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

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. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency

What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Is Canada's Innovation Performance Really So Bad?

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

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Create Shared Value with a Trampoline Approach

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

Getting Real About Health Care Value

Water's Economics as Muddy as Ever

Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

HBR's Best Videos, Infographics, Podcasts, and Slideshows of 2011

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

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