Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

They transfer money away from public treasuries and wage earners to provide a short-term incremental benefit that does nothing to improve the company’s long-term prospects. But neither should they make capital-allocation decisions without regard to the long-term consequences for their own success.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 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. Your purpose — preserving food — had been co-opted. All the strengths you had worked so hard to build no longer mattered.

Strategy 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. 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. Tim Evans for HBR. So how can we ensure the latter?

Short-term 8

Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8

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

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

And it's not a short-term problem, either. With such imprecision in the marketplace, companies must take it upon themselves to identify long term risks, quantifying the true value of water in order to steer clear of long-term hazards. Much of the leading work in understanding water risk has come from Coca-Cola.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

And the flow of words is not likely to abate in the coming months, as articles on the need for a more holistic model of capitalism (including those contributed by Roger Martin , Michael Porter and McKinsey's Dominic Barton in HBR pieces) are expanded into books.

Short-term 11

Short-term Porter Long-term Rogers 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. It’s hard for employees to feel like they are doing more than managing numbers when they, too, are treated like numbers to be optimized.

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. In this version, we work long hours because our bosses tell us to. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. At least, that’s one narrative of overwork.

Company 8

Company Stress Porter Long-term 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. What seems special about the term is that, seemingly simple, it is actually complex and subtle. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.”

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Another is that short-term oriented companies are so desperate for margins that they’re hollowing out their operations or eating their R&D seed-corn. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 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. Hiring Veterans and the Long-Term Unemployed. Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A key value driver (KVD) is any variable that drives value for shareholders. But few firms can identify their KVDs and thus use them for forecasting and improvement. Identifying your KVDs requires a deep understanding of your business and much trial and error. Often, value drivers are combinations of variables.

Short-term 80

Short-term Long-term Porter How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

In the wake of any natural disaster, including the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , urgent response eventually gives way to long-term recovery. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

Porter 12

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

Review 85

Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

As Janet Yellen pointed out in a speech last year, “the opportunity to build a business has long been an important part of the American Dream.” These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. from offshore.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. 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. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

The idea that companies face enormous pressure to deliver short-term results at the expense of long-term health is widespread among executives. McKinsey has made its case empirically, finding evidence linking long-term management to superior financial performance. Porter said the U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Porter Long-term Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Porter and Mark R. As Porter and Kramer argue, such non-monetary assistance reflecting a company’s existing expertise can surpass the social impact achieved per dollar expended through traditional philanthropy.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

My company is in the resource extraction business, and it has known for a long time how these two things, communities and corporate interests, can go hand in hand. Move forward to 2012, and those days are long gone. Towns need to be built, and the influx of workers needs to be managed.

Development 12

Development Porter Banking Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Instead, businesses see them as in their longer-term strategic interests. In the long-term, the success of U.S. Competitiveness Project.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. A more comprehensive focus on processes and outcomes and their interaction always shows opportunities to improve, from increasing survival rates and long-term functioning to reducing complications and speeding recovery.

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 10

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

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. Meetic, the French dating site, offers a case study in the difficulties of managing across digital borders. But China has a long way to go to play this role.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. The current wave of populism is related, in part, to the robust tendency to overestimate globalization levels that I have termed “globaloney.” Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management?

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8