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. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

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. Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. As the 24 th biggest industrial consumer of water, Coca Cola has now invested $2 billion to reduce water use and improve water quality in the communities in which it operates.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. To ignore that information source is to lessen the quality of the intelligence. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Public sector and social good organizations may not have access to the same amount, quality, or frequency of data. 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. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s a look at a tiny, tiny slice of it: Those are a couple of dozen air quality sensors located around Boston, as documented by Thingful , a search engine for publicly available Internet of Things things (including sharks !). Click on a dot to get real-time information on air quality in the area. Information & technology'

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Gordon Porter Information Technology Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. health care is too expensive, too inefficient, and the quality is too varied. We’ve made similar strides in many other clinical areas, using data to drive quality. We all know that U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That’s a more than a hundredfold escalation in labor costs, plus higher materials costs — and horrible quality. According to a recent IMF report , technological progress and the decline of unions have both contributed to the increase in inequality, with globalization playing a smaller but reinforcing role.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

I say "market" presidents rather than "select" them because the way in which an organization commits to market its products and services can substantially determine the quality of the product it produces and sells. The way in which we market presidents is broken, much like the way that we traditionally market businesses is broken.

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Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8