Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants. 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 vision of the future.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I watched again powerful movies of bravery like Glory , Gettysburg , The Patriot , The Big Red One , and Patton. One feature was the power of the flag. renowned Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter was invited to lead a strategic planning meeting. Dr. Porter is here to start our strategic planning meeting.

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Porter Strategic Planning Library Planning 150

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true not just on the surface but down to the marrow.

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

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. Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

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. That's the good news.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

Chief Attitude Officer) and believe in the power of generosity, what does it look like for you? Too many of us work to develop and use “best practices&# – few of which have to do with attitude. It seems simple enough doesn’t it? What do you think? If you are a leader (a.k.a. Where or who do they come from?

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Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

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

MAY 15, 2014

To read Miller’s tutorial is to return to some first principles that may still be worth bearing in mind, even in today’s world of vastly greater amounts of data and computing power (the largest mainframe Miller refers to has a capacity of two megabytes).

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 9

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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Brand Porter Objective Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. 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

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 Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, operating deliberately and with sufficient power and intent to change the shape of markets. The change Chandler describes actually began as far back as the industrial revolution, because that basically invented market power. The invisible hand was replaced by a visible one, belonging to a John D.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Throughout my professional life, I have kept a file in my computer containing articles that have either shaped my worldview or provided a powerful argument and data for a point of view I already held. In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? Here are just a few of the highlights.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

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"). co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. This poses a dilemma for consulting firms.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Some experts use the Social Business term as the evolution of Social Media as the same tools used for marketing efficiencies can be applied to product development, customer care, or supply chain work. Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. Social Era" then captures two distinct power shifts: Organizational.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Michael Porter and I recognized this limitation in our work studying the organization and structure of cancer-care delivery and published a case study that aims to track the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. Online communities are a powerful, emerging avenue for insight into patient sentiment about a disease or therapy.

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. Thus we now hear about Andrew Witty's GSK transforming business models to grow by broadening access to medicines in developing countries, and Sam Palmisano's IBM seeking to grow through its Smarter Planet initiative.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

” The men thought that these customers, on arrival, really did not need a porter to pick up their luggage and carry it to their room – after all, they had likely just brought it all the way from the airport on their own. citizenM explicitly used analogical reasoning to develop new elements in its hotels.

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Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. But businesses and professions that have been around for years tend to develop codes or ethics or at least norms of acceptable behavior. The Cambridge, Mass.,

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

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. An influential 1992 HBR article by Michael Porter advocated the Japanese model of long-term illiquid stakes.

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Short-term Intangible Assets Hedge Long-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.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

But during the last four years, a powerful change has been taking place. Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. actual developments that are more achievable) can be much more prevalent than people think.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

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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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 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. For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

Amazon’s highly visible search for a second headquarters has offered one tremendous public benefit: it has raised public awareness of what bad economic development is. Melissa Ross/Getty Images. But if attracting Amazon and other companies is not the right way to create jobs, then what is?

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Supply Chain Porter Incentives Competitive Advantage 8

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 is a powerful statement that defines our aspiration and purpose.”

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Behavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and overoptimism that too often lead to poor decisions — like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The collaboration between Siemens and Central Piedmont Community College, aimed at skill development, is one example. Competitiveness Project.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's not even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. It's the norms that you and I endorse, every second of every day, with every tiny decision we make, that value money over meaning; privilege over purpose; expedience over development; convenience over sophistication; McPleasure over eudaimonia; system over existence.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Comparing these types of outcomes in a transparent and collaborative way can be a powerful motivator for improvement. Many institutions are overwhelmed by the change required and don’t know where to begin.

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Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs?

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Over 20 years ago, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter introduced the Porter hypothesis , which posits that environmental regulation can benefit companies by nudging them to explore their current production methods and eliminate costly waste that they have been blissfully unaware of.

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Company Porter Forrester Simon 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

In the 1980s, Michael Porter built on this idea and made it more possible for managers to act on with his concept of value chains. By increasing scale companies could create efficiencies along the entire value chain through either operational excellence or bargaining power with suppliers and customers.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2012

Powered by local, mobile, and social media, online retail is becoming something that no long-time, card-carrying NRF member might reasonably have anticipated. Consider a few emerging models: Private Sales: "Old Europe" can still surprise us. Zulily has been adding 40 to 50 new brands a week.

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Retail Fashion Merchandising Apparel 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases. than boosting overall economic growth.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8