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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Here they are: Daniel Pink – In 2015, London-based Thinkers 50 named him, alongside Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, as one of the top 10 business thinkers in the world. Would you like to meet my team? He has been named one of “Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years” by PBS, among other awards.

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Worries About Short-Termism Are 40 Years Old, but Are They Overblown?

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Rotman’s Roger Martin reviewed the evidence on both sides here at HBR and explained why he believed short-termism is a problem. You can go back 25 years and hear the same argument from Michael Porter. Porter said the U.S. Michael Porter to some extent, and Hayes and Abernathy, said that U.S. I think if U.S.

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How Big Business Created the Politics of Anger

Harvard Business Review

The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. More recently, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative , led by Starbucks, the Aspen Institute, and FSG, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm that Professor Porter and I founded, has brought together three dozen leading U.S.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

As a result, according to HBS’s Michael Porter, Singapore developed a highly efficient civil service elite that has been able to dynamically shift policies and priorities over time. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 5-6, 2015 in Vienna.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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. A focus on sustainability can also unlock opportunities for process and logistics savings.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

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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How to Actually Put Your Marketing Data to Use

Harvard Business Review

Rezavandi’s strategic early warning methodology starts with the company’s existing strategy, then synthesizes the cacophony of competitive information into hypotheses about the future using Michael Porter’s strategic frameworks (think: substitutes, buyers, and suppliers). This helps keep the team’s efforts focused.