Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants. Consider Porter's value chain. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. When corporations create shared value they increase their profits and create greater social impact, resulting in powerful transformations and innovations in both business and society.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

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. Their job is to encourage merit, inspire innovation and provide encouragement…not big donuts. “Carrying the flag” is a leader’s preeminent responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Barriers to entry are withering, innovations are easily copied, and disruption is everywhere. As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Despite the internet and cheap, super-powerful computers, people aren’t seeing a lot of opportunity to challenge incumbents.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

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.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

In short, the art and practice of capitalism itself might need deep-rooted innovation. And while I'm delighted that giants (many of my intellectual heroes, truth be told) like Porter, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Martin Wolf, and others agree, it's another matter to get to the other side.

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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. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news. The bad news is that stellar performance on both dimensions is no common or easy feat.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress. For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true not just on the surface but down to the marrow. We have observed companies doing this to a certain degree.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. And Open Innovation or Crowdsoucing are often linked to any of these three terms - enterprise 2.0, CrowdSourcing / Open Innovation.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Boost Power Through Body Language. Harvard Business School's Amy Cuddy explains how to increase your charisma with power poses. Social Media's Untapped Power. The Hidden Demons of High Achievers. Audio podcast.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. Wesson Wang. PR played a huge role in this success. Stay focused.

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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? A Brief History of Inventing Innovation.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

We’ve plotted changes in the auto industry in the US, Germany, and Japan over the last 100 years; while strategies have certainly changed over time, the differences between eras essentially boil down to varying degrees of vertical integration and the ever-shifting balance of power between automakers and suppliers.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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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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Brand Porter Objective Short-term 14

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. What about innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE. As for whether America really needs manufacturing to maintain its economic strength, Harvard Business School professors Gary P.

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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. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. (And not just because, at Monitor, they appear to prefer the spelling "Qhadafi.")

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. At best, these forums can be the source of new insights to drive discovery.

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Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

As someone who works with a variety of organizations in my roles as strategy and innovation consultant, venture capitalist, professor, and mentor, this question intrigues to me. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — " shared value " — to unify this false choice.

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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. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. Over the last six years the federal government funded more than 50 new regional innovation “clusters,” and across America new accelerators and entrepreneurship boot camps are proliferating. Ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship support.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. Other aspects of the financial sector highlight some of the problems with markets that economists have added to their list since the time of Adam Smith.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. Other aspects of the financial sector highlight some of the problems with markets that economists have added to their list since the time of Adam Smith.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” Yet they are luxurious, with a power shower, high quality bedding, and in-room tablets that control free movies, internet, and personalized mood-settings. ” They two men were plotting to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s proven power to affect voting turnout alarmed some, but that concern was largely hypothetical. Porter Airways created an online poll asking the public where they’d like to fly and promoted it on Facebook. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

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. million people) for the opportunity to find good work with good income.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

“What matters is the pace of innovation — that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness.” Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy?

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

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Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." This is another Christensen observation, albeit a lot less famous than the one about disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

Other researchers, including Enrico Moretti, Michael Porter, and my colleague Mark Muro , point to the power of clusters — especially in tech-based advanced industries — for regional job creation. Beyond start-ups, local leaders can also help existing small- and mid-sized establishments survive, innovate, and grow.

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Supply Chain Porter Incentives Competitive Advantage 8

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. A second approach uses innovative funding models and new sources of capital to solve some of society’s most difficult problems. Competitiveness Project.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” As Michael Porter and Thomas H. (For Comparison of outcomes is essential to disseminate innovations from one individual or team to another. For more, see this HBS case.).

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