Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. It relates to what Michael Porter meant with being “stuck in the middle”: if you try to come up with a strategy that does everything for everyone, you will likely end up achieving nothing. When something seems too good to be true, it usually is.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Michael Porter, the strategy expert, believes that the HBS approach is the right one. It would be awkward to pick sides between two old friends about the strategy of a school where I taught for more than twenty years. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them.

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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. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees. Porter and Mark R. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Meanwhile, Michael Porter wonders if we have missed out on what's good about sustainability , and suggests a new approach. And Tony Golsby-Smith knows that if you really want to develop a new idea or strategy, you need do to it in human-to-human conversations, and not in analytical, Powerpoint-ridden meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Yet although the lay observer can understand the reasons for these corporate break-ups, the frameworks and ideas that underpin strategy theory are actually pretty unhelpful when considering whether or not to initiate a break-up. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy? Strategy'

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S.

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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. My experiences as head of the Global Strategy Practice at Bain & Company for the past 15 years have confirmed this belief.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Those of us who work in health care inevitably refer to our own experiences with the health care system when making decisions about strategy and program design. Whether it’s legislation or strategy, the best-intentioned and most carefully considered policies will have weaknesses that are exposed only through execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm. As it notes, “When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return.”. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

These Maps are an outgrowth of exciting new work by strategy scholars developing a mathematical model of firm strategy that I refer to as the Value Capture Model (VCM). The VCM calls our attention to three important truths of competitive strategy that other theories obscure. This is something of a new idea in strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In November 2010, to big fanfare at Unilever's London headquarters, chief executive Paul Polman boldly articulated a new strategy. To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example. And of course, more pressure on climate.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

If a user agreed to the noble goal of free connectivity for their fellow citizens, they were directed to tell their Member of Parliament to support Facebook’s developing world program: Internet.org seeks to connect billions of people in the developing world to the internet.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing a value-based strategy is on the mind of nearly every health care organization in the U.S. As Michael Porter and Thomas H. But some institutions are succeeding, and we find that nearly every element of their value strategies builds on and is strengthened by one thing: the ability to measure outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Strategy is no longer a game of chess because the board is no longer set out in orderly lines. Strategy, therefore, is no longer a punctuated series of moves, but a process of deepening and widening connections. The world envisioned by Coase and Porter was relatively stable. The world has changed and so must strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Many have tried but few have succeeded in developing substantial innovation hubs. The role and strategy of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This was a period when large numbers of politicians and voters in the English-speaking world developed a sense that governments were failing to solve social problems. This isn’t just a developed-world phenomenon. It’s not always so easy to break the tradeoff between sustainability issues and developing-world growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Nonmarket Strategy. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. For all these reasons, purely market-focused strategies oblivious to the sociopolitical context are more likely than ever to prove blinkered. in the U.S., but our exports may decline.

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