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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. Each new book finds just the right question, the point of intersection between the timeless issue — performance — and the timely challenge managers are grappling with today. You have to make good choices.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Learning how to speed up growth to increase prosperity of this massive middle would have immeasurable societal value. Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. strategic hires).

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

The academic study of strategy took a big leap forward in the 1970s when Michael Porter of HBS looked at earlier economic research on industry structure and noticed that market power — which economists wanted to minimize — was the same thing as sustained profitability, which corporate executives wanted to maximize. Corporate finance?

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

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. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

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