Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

The market has a way of taking care of that. Almost exactly two years ago, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer called for a new definition of capitalism — “ shared value ” — to unify this false choice. There are also some quiet, under the radar companies, like 6th generation family-held Menasha Corp.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

Wally Bock is a fixture in the online leadership community. When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Likewise, the five strategies echo Porter’s competitive strategy model, where organizations select one of five market positions. Leadership book review'

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 8, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What is the Price? The book is called The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do and is written by NY TImes Editorial Board member Eduardo Porter.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It seems that they are adapting their work from Micheal Porters 5 forces. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “But the book doesn't stop there!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy' Never take the blame.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

So when Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter invited HBR last month to attend a class where Kagame was the guest speaker, and talk to him and Kagame afterwards, I was curious but also a little worried about being enlisted as a Kagame salesman. To Porter] How did you hook up with this guy? How did this partnership evolve?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces. The Porter model of strategy isn’t obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. But two-sided markets have actually been with us for centuries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Margins are maximized to the extent that companies leverage core capabilities in bringing products to market, and are able to establish control of key points in the value chain, for example regarding commodity costs, patents, or brand strength. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. Nor are they entirely innocent. The growing economic inequality that polarizes U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. The once-dominant Nokia soon lost much of its market cap and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

There certainly is no shortage of candidates from our nine decades of publishing — from Ted Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" to Michael Porter's "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.". And so, in that spirit, we've asked several prominent readers to identify the most valuable idea they have learned from the pages of HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes. In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things. The first is: why all the fuss with defining it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. With the right leadership, I think so.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The value is exempt from the ebb and flow of the market. Even as demand vastly outpaces supply, the market price is as static as a boulder in stream. This kind of deep supply chain work fits the model of "shared value" creation that strategy guru Michael Porter laid out in HBR earlier this year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans. Note: the majority of the pieces below were written by men. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Instead, once people have leadership responsibilities, their calendar gets crammed with more and more meetings and trips. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company. Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Rosabeth Moss Kanter are among those who have asserted that companies should care about their impact on employees, communities, and the planet as they pursue profit. There has been much talk about creating social or shared value in recent years. This is a basic tenet of persuasiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

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. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors. The Cleveland Clinic’s Journey. Health Operations'

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

It occurred to me that this was a talent to watch, as I was already familiar with established composers such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others. Every way in which a company markets must be commensurate and fit under definable business strategies. ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ – Branding is NOT strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. Growth events were almost immediate: An entrepreneur with a line of men’s underwear entered export markets for the first time.

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