Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not just if we are a business owner, Brand, Marketing or Sales Manager, or someone else traditionally responsible for price, but for all of us as leaders, thinking about how people invest of themselves, their time, energy and more. I’m looking forward to reading it (my copy is on the way) and after I’ve read it I will share more.

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Price Workshop Porter Learning-by-Doing 185

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

President has thus far been at the helm during a Grand Supercycle market decline. The rampant speculation of the time spread beyond the financial class, such that porters and ladies' maids had enough money to buy their own carriages. Who will occupy the Oval Office when the next Grand Supercycle depression develops? Prechter Jr.:

Banking 90

Banking eBook Porter Leadership 90

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He works with companies to develop innovative CSR practices that generate value for both the company and society.

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Review Marketing Innovation Company 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. They show us how not behave. Don’t support hero promotions.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is what is going on now in community development. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs. Meanwhile, a second trend is the growing eagerness of the private sector to play a genuine and substantial role in community development.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article in January's HBR tries to advance our world's shared values by arguing that doing right is the best long-term business strategy. But first, let's praise Porter and Kramer. Their article puts Porter's reputational weight behind an idea that in itself has, well, shared value.

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Porter Morale Supply Chain Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a strategy that doesn't simply rely on being the biggest.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” You must help them develop into the people they were meant to be.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Marketing Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Michael Porter is credited with (or more often accused of) creating TPS in 1980 —positing that a firm should think about positioning itself in its industry in a way that enables it to achieve competitive advantage. Anyone taking the time to delve into the literature of strategy quickly realizes that there are two fiercely opposed camps.

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RBV Resources Positioning Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc. Note to U.S.

Consultative 14

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Porter's trilogy of Competitive Strategy , Competitive Advantage , and The Competitive Advantage of Nations sits on every serious strategist's shelf. But if you are a services company, your ability to quickly develop young talent could be your secret sauce. For a retailer, it might be logistical acumen.

Company 15

Company Competitive Advantage Prahalad Hamel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

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Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things. The first is: why all the fuss with defining it?

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal. 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 ).

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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. Out of 4,000 applicants per year, only 100 are chosen.)

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GDP Education Porter Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In urban areas, the retail grocery market was dominated by corner store grocers who delivered food to within walking distance of customer homes.

Technology 15

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. This kind of deep supply chain work fits the model of "shared value" creation that strategy guru Michael Porter laid out in HBR earlier this year.

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Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture. The next opportunity (or threat) may lie outside those walls, at the messy intersection of sectors and markets.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. But they can also include property or patents or brands or contracts.

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

In the face of indisputable financial and political corruption, even David Brooks, a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, is forced to question his own longstanding beliefs about the rationality of markets. Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach.

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Porter Emotional Intelligence Rogers Resources 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. trillion by 2020.

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Innovation Succession Venture Capitalist Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. 3-D Printing Will Change the World.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. The days when you could make a living responding to companies' discovery of strategy, as in "Gosh, we gotta get ourselves one of those," are gone with the 1970s (or maybe the 1990s in the "developing world"). Monitor & Co.,

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. professional organizations. organization that could also be a customer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. This second generation of Social Business terminology was coined by the Dachis Group, a marketing organization, and specifically by Peter Kim , who consults on it. Enterprise 2.0" Individual.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Skills development comes first. The next challenge, once you've developed your expertise, is cultivating a receptive audience. Build your platform.

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Reputation Case Study Ries Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. If earnings are low, “the market sells first and asks questions later” as the adage goes. The company still has its capital.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-term 8