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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

And that's where Michael Porter enters the picture. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. Porter's work provides that rigor, as it defines the economic fundamentals of competition and strategy. The essence of strategy, says Porter, is choosing what not to do.

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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. While social media doesn't shift Porter's model , the social era surely does. Most existing big organizations — the 800-pound gorillas — subscribe to Michael Porter's value chain framework. Big Isn't Enough.

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Innovation in Complex Civic Environments

Mills Scofield

While the pace of innovation is driving unprecedented change in the private sector – including communications, finance and even how we eat -- not enough has changed in how communities address education, economic, environmental or public health challenges and opportunities.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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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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