Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." And even Porter doesn't try to impose his framework on the discussion of government's role in society. Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

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Porter Licensing Article Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Michael Porter would approve. ” In Porter’s view, sustainable competitive advantage depends on trade-offs, including the fact that it’s difficult for one company to serve all customers across a wide range of needs. Hastings is betting that Porter’s rules haven’t been repealed.

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Porter Company Retail Competitive Advantage 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 9, 2016

He is a CEO coach, consultant, keynote speaker, and chief launch officer for today’s critical cross-generational issues, bridging the gap between managers and their millennial workforce to increase employee engagement, productivity and profits.

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Consultative Creativity CEO Productivity 70

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Agnes joined the panel session titled 'Voices from WIE Asia', and Paulina, as a member on the Executive Committee of the conference, introduced CMI to the IEEE, facilitated the setup of the CMI booth, invited CMI's CEO Dr Ann Franke OBE as keynote speaker, and also moderated and spoke at ‘Voices from WIE Asia’.

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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Whether you’ve just started your career or are the CEO of the company, if you’re a woman, people expect you to do routine, time-consuming tasks that no one else wants to do. Could you take notes? Would you mind ordering lunch? We need someone to organize the off-site event — can you do that? Williams and Marina Multhaup.

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P&L Porter Download Career 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. He has a B.S. in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University.

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Engineering CEO Leadership Kotter 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

So General Motors CEO Dan Akerson was simply echoing popular sentiment when, on the day the new GM went public, he threw down the gauntlet: "May the best car win!" But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. The Kindle? Who has the best technology? The best distribution?

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School and I have argued that companies have an opportunity and obligation to create shared value by pursuing profits and competitive advantage in ways that strengthen the communities where they operate. Visionary CEOs understand the strategic link between social benefits and shareholder returns.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

This post is adapted from the Jan/Feb HBR article, " The Best-Performing CEOs in the World.". Porter and Mark R. Five percent of the CEOs for which we had sufficient data fell into the box at the top right; they delivered great financial performance year over year and performed strongly on social and environmental dimensions.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

renowned Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter was invited to lead a strategic planning meeting. Since it was Junior’s first planning session as CEO, Stew, Sr. Dr. Porter is here to start our strategic planning meeting. Shortly after Stew, Sr. passed day-to-day leadership to Stew Leonard, Jr. decided not to attend.

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Porter Strategic Planning Library Planning 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Unilever CEO Paul Polman, for example, was rising above a trade-off mindset when he told us: “We see that sustainability drives growth, cuts costs, reduces risk, and helps us serve a multitude of stakeholders.” ” Develop corporate plasticity. ” Actively lead operationalization.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Zach Supalla, the CEO of Spark (an open source IoT platform), says, “With the IoT, you can’t think of a company in a vacuum. In his classic book Competitive Strategy , Michael Porter describes three generic strategies: differentiation, cost leadership, and focus. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

” the CEO of a major global corporation asked me recently. This requires the CEO and board to articulate a social purpose that goes beyond creating value for shareholders. Stephen Smith for HBR. “Why don’t we get credit for all the good things we do?” The company has to live that purpose, not just talk about it.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. They tend to focus on the obvious and most easily measured benefits (lower wage costs, tax rates, etc.)

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Benchmarking Cost-Benefit Analysis Analysis Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success.

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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. The other is the more static, ongoing rivalry that Porter focused on, which seems to have declined since he wrote Competitive Strategy , and which describes most industries. The macro numbers tell a very different story.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. Jim Turley, the CEO of Ernst & Young, immediately went and ruined it by changing the subject to the decline in business-bashing in the U.S. It seemed like a significant moment.

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Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Video interview. What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL. Interactive infographic. Video interview.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. Or, sometimes related, they have a new CEO with a mandate to shake things up and make her mark. One CEO I talked with rattled off a list of undertakings for which he had enlisted consulting help. Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

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. One CEO with whom I have worked remarked that physicians and nurses run the risk of losing their clinical identities as they develop into executives.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. Today, complexity has become the silent killer of profitable growth in business, and sometimes of CEO careers.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

Professional endings can be exuberant, like the send-off celebration for retiring Net-a-Porter CEO Mark Sebba , or earnest, like the parting U.S. president’s helicopter takeoff into the unknown. What matters is that a career chapter “doesn’t just stop, it ends,” as Parker puts it.

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How To Career Porter Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

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.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? These factors are especially important in large, complex organizations where CEOs are further and further removed from the people at the front line who actually deliver on the strategy and capture the daily customer feedback. Here are just a few of the highlights.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Rosabeth Moss Kanter are among those who have asserted that companies should care about their impact on employees, communities, and the planet as they pursue profit. There has been much talk about creating social or shared value in recent years. This is a basic tenet of persuasiveness.

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Insurance Business Model Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Hiring Veterans and the Long-Term Unemployed.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

LDRLB

JULY 6, 2011

The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT, Michael Porter’s competitive model, core competencies, strategic intent and business transformation. Every CEO wants buy-in. If employees nod to that, the CEO has buy-in. Today, many are questioning its usefulness.

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Strategic Planning Planning Real Estate SWOT 103

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week , characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid.

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Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. According to the CEO of Gannett, Gracia Martore , one reason for the split is that the combined businesses had a liability: anti-trust restrictions. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

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. Social media evangelists tell CEOs they need to stop focusing so much on driving sales and “connect instead of promote.”

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Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 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.”

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. Not to mention, CEOs and boards think of "social media" as the stuff their marketing team drives. Sometimes people use the term Social Capitalism to get to this same idea. And Open Innovation or Crowdsoucing are often linked to any of these three terms - enterprise 2.0,

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

But then my Apple lunch companion wondered aloud: "Why don't more CEOs bring greater clarity to what their companies should not be doing?" I'm surprised by how often CEOs pursue the opposite approach. The CEO of a major corporation that makes security for computers, where I have worked extensively, is a good example.

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CEO Porter Strategy Definition 16

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 1, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times.

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Chief Technology Officer Team Building Technology Execution 75