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. McKinsey, of course, offers the most uncertain product of all: Strategy advice.

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McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Everyone in the industry follows the same advice. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique. In fact, it's practically a guarantee of mediocre performance. Profitability deteriorates.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

BONUS BITS:: Expert Advice. Michael Porter and Co. As Jan Zijderveld, head of Unilever's European business, told the Financial Times Deutschland, the new strategy is necessary because "Poverty is returning to Europe.". — by Amy Bernstein. on American Competiveness (Harvard Magazine).

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Stress Porter Agility Banking 15

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The new principal’s predecessor shared with the new principal little about the staff or the barriers to greatness but offered strong advice: “Take real good care of my precious teachers.” The faculty meeting on the first day of school painted the picture clearly. Dr. Porter is here to start our strategic planning meeting.

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Porter Strategic Planning Library Planning 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. In fact, as Kaplan and Michael Porter describe in a recent HBR article, "To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved." Thank heavens.)

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

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Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

And there are many organizations — from Blockbuster to Kodak, print-only newspapers to pay-phone makers — that no doubt wish they’d followed the advice. By now, the idea that organizations must adapt in order to maintain both relevance and market share in a rapidly changing world is so ingrained that it’s been reduced to pithy sayings.

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Disruptive Innovation Mass Marketing Fashion Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Consider Mr Porter , the man-cousin of Net-a-Porter. yours truly) can ask experts for fashion advice, anytime, via internet chat. Its rivals try to infect the entire internet with glamorous photoshoots studded with celebrities — something Mr Porter eschews completely. There, a fashion-challenged dork (a.k.a.

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Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Ultimately what the consultancies are competing for are semi-permanent, year-in, year-out relationships with companies rich enough to pay scores of millions annually for help and advice. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. (And not just because, at Monitor, they appear to prefer the spelling "Qhadafi.") The Cambridge, Mass.,

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One of my students had a great piece of advice for her classmates. Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs.

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy?” His advice in a nutshell: Build a moat.). ” In this case, though, Michael Porter and his peers are hardly defunct.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

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

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?

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10