Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Where most managers are forced to spend their days figuring out the next best iteration on their products or services, a handful of companies have been able to exploit scale instead of vision in their pursuit of profit. Huge retailers such as Walmart and Target also use scale to keep their purchasing costs down and their prices competitive.

Porter 13

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

At the same time, the federal and state governments understand that their budgets can't muster all the ideas, products and services that are needed to solve the problems facing us. This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Puzzling anecdotes abound: Microsoft has missed out on a series of new products in the past decade, yet as Don Sull points out , it continues to be highly profitable. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 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 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Undertakings with $20 million price tags such as the post-merger integration of a giant pharmaceutical client and its equally humongous acquisition. Marakon , which put value-based management at the core of its strategy concentration, is essentially defunct.

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. 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

JANUARY 23, 2013

Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid. In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times. Many crucial objectives simply cannot be accomplished while generating a financial return.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

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

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

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurers, along with public services, can directly “monetize” better individual behavior as healthier or safer individual outcomes, lower claims costs, and improve risk pools, which can be translated into lower-priced premiums and a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be. .”

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

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. A Better Way to Encourage Price Shopping for Health Care. How many are needed? Health Operations'

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It’s interesting: a lot of the big sustainability issues (not just energy) come down to pricing—putting a price on natural resources that we used to see as free. Nobody had put a price on the fish—it was free if you had the tools to get it. There are a lot of examples where this has been done in the past.

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8