Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. It's an approach we call creating shared value ( my coauthor Mark Kramer and FSG cofounder Michael Porter wrote about this in Harvard Business Review ).

Porter 13

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The instincts crucial to deciding whom to hire and how to hire them managing others’ performance are often underdeveloped in clinical leaders. Strategy guru and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School elegantly articulated this when he wrote that strategy is both what we choose to do — and what we choose not to do.

Execution 8

Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Strategy is about asking “what” we should be doing—figuring out what problems the company should be tackling, sensing what is happening in the world and learning how to apply it to your business. Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter.

Porter 11

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

It's often hard to deduce how someone becomes known as a leader in their field. Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious. Skills development comes first.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

At the beginning of my career, I was a radio DJ. It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Learn how to identify and nurture your stakeholders. I started in 1958, a golden period for music.

Learning-by-Doing 63

Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 63

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

JULY 22, 2015

He’d always pushed Mark to advance in his career, and this was an internal promotion, on a three-year contract, so they’d still be working for the same company. But Mark had never expected his sexual orientation to present a stumbling block in his career at the company. A huge step up in my career.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The only person available to help is the night porter, who has no idea where the keys are kept. In a noisy market it's harder for the right employer and candidate to meet, but there are genuine opportunities out there: organizations are looking for enthusiastic and capable people and don't know how to find them.

Hotels 10

Hotels Mass Marketing Porter Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Salesforce.com donates one percent of all top line revenues to charity, and makes even its business software seem inspiring by showing how it can make its users more successful in their jobs and careers. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.

Marketing 8

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8