Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While this reality poses grave risks to thousands of communities, it is also the driver of a daunting, and often confusing, economic dilemma which businesses must prepare for.It's time for companies operating in the many dry regions around the world to equip themselves with the tools and mindset they need to navigate this new normal.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. If you’re ambitious but your job offers you limited opportunities for exploration and growth, what can you do to develop new skills?

Porter 11

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

Levitt 12

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. And not just me, our whole leadership team.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? which argued that operational excellence alone is not strategy, and that the truly enduring companies create a unique customer experience. We live in a world that seems short on leadership and long on complex problems and organizations.

Goleman 8

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Last year, we established a values-based care team, which seeks to eliminate unnecessary practice variation by developing evidence-based care paths across diseases and to improve comprehensive care coordination so that patients move seamlessly through the system, reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits. Health Operations'

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Its most successful division, mobile telephony, was looking for a new head of software development at headquarters in Seoul. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8