Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

But it replaced one that had played music of the 1930s and ‘40s, prompting those customers who enjoyed classics from the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwins to cancel their subscriptions. If you bounce from one strategy (say, low prices) to another (full service) and back again, people won’t know what you stand for.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

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. But even with its ability to sustain lower prices, the new model had little support. What changed?

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. The Price of Incivility.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

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. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 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. Overall productivity growth has actually been below historical levels for the last decade. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

billion in agricultural production alone. Water is one of the world's most glaring commercial anomalies, with a price reflecting nothing more than the costs to extract and distribute it. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 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. Personally, we don’t presume to know Elon Musk’s mind.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Take a company that is thinking about cutting investment to boost earnings, hoping to inflate its stock price. What about innovation?

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? Conversations, not chains. Because that's the point.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." Alternatively, consider a way to get a customer to pay for an early version of a product.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.”

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

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.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Now, as part of the purchasing process, dozens of doctors gather to discuss the merits of certain products: Which ones provide the best outcomes for patients? To remedy that, we’ve taped price lists to supply cabinets in some ORs. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

With six to eight boutiques opening every day, at prices 50 percent below retail, Mack says the goal is to make every day "Black Friday" — without selling out too fast given the 72-hour lifetime of each boutique. Gone is the age of "feature, function, selection and price." Zulily has been adding 40 to 50 new brands a week.

Retail 15

Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15