Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

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.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate.

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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." Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to.

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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 [.].

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