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. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. Develop a vision of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. First among these were BCG executives Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, writing some 18 years after Bell’s article in the seminal “Strategy and the New Economics of Information.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. Setting and defining strategy.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

So marketers today have unprecedented “weapons” and “recon” in terms of technological tools and access to data. In 2014, Atrion — a privately owned Technology Services company based in Warwick, RI — had a problem. Again, Porter’s models frequently help in getting a perspective clearer.

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Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 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). So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. The business strategy of competing with scale mirrors what military generals do in combat. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well. There is a lesson here for business.

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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.” “We talk purpose at the highest level strategy meetings.

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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. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Will Other Nations Develop Local Champions and Innovation Hubs? Thus, companies on the gold coasts of the U.S. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

According to Clay Christensen and his coauthors Dina Wang and Derek van Bever, the strategy consulting industry is about to blow up the same way the legal world just did. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology'

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 14

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

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. Some may not have attractive social or environmental strategies; some may have misalignment between those strategies and the overall corporate strategy; and some may have incomplete measures of social or environmental practices. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

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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. 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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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.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

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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. Maybe it's that strategy consulting has hit something of a dead-end, as Walter Kiechel wrote last week. The Cambridge, Mass.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Beyond looking silly, the much bigger risk — the risk to the business — is that when we throw terms around imprecisely, we risk introducing confusion into the strategy we're trying to execute. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. An effective policy strategy for small businesses needs to focus on the unique needs these companies have.

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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. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” That is it may be new in either end.”

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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. For all these reasons, purely market-focused strategies oblivious to the sociopolitical context are more likely than ever to prove blinkered. But in the words of survey coauthor Michael Porter , many were “offended by the discussion saying that someone is getting paid too much.”

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