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. For some industries, those basic strategies still hold true today.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist Disruptive Innovation Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. You can see this clearly in the graphic blow, which maps the long-term financial performance of some 1,100 CEOs against their companies' social and environmental performance for their last two years in office (click for a larger view). See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

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Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” And short-term numbers at that. Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

And it's not a short-term problem, either. 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. Much of the leading work in understanding water risk has come from Coca-Cola.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Long-term Short-term Porter 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Their position within the industry defines their business strategy.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. As Luigi Zingales has observed , politicians are increasingly “pro-business” rather than “pro-market.” But we’ve seen higher profitability for so long that deeper forces are surely at play.

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

There is a clamor of voices demanding the rebooting of capitalism, from academics (such as Michael Porter) and politicians (like Al Gore) to investors (such as CalPERS) and Occupy''s street activists. Investors, meanwhile, compensate for the lack of knowledge about issues central to longer term value by pricing in a risk premium.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

But we know that such views can be too short-term. This problem is as real for consumer-centric organizations as for corporations looking for opportunities to share value beyond their shareholders (as Michael Porter and Mark Kramer recently discussed in the pages of HBR ). It also explains why promoters don't like those markets.

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Price Porter Early Adopters Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

In the wake of any natural disaster, including the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan , urgent response eventually gives way to long-term recovery. 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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Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 13

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2011

The second looked through the analogies and focused upon business strategies and methodologies. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. ‘Long Day, Short Night’ by The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick and Dawn Penn. ‘Don’t Make Me Over’ – Branding is NOT strategy. .

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Learning-by-Doing Leadership Strategic Planning Open-book 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy. Porter then used the tools of microeconomics to craft advice for executives on how to get and hold on to that power. His 1988 book The Theory of Industrial Organization became the standard graduate textbook on the topic.

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

The idea that companies face enormous pressure to deliver short-term results at the expense of long-term health is widespread among executives. McKinsey has made its case empirically, finding evidence linking long-term management to superior financial performance. Porter said the U.S. So this view that U.S.

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Short-term Porter Long-term Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

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.” Then last year Michael Porter returned to apply the five forces framework to the next phase of the digital economy – the internet of things.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

One company that I worked with found that the accuracy of market forecasts for new-to-the-world ideas was roughly equivalent to using the results of a random number generator. There's a great term in the psychology literature called the " planning fallacy." Instead, trust actions over statements. They sincerely believe them.

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Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing a value-based strategy is on the mind of nearly every health care organization in the U.S. As Michael Porter and Thomas H. But some institutions are succeeding, and we find that nearly every element of their value strategies builds on and is strengthened by one thing: the ability to measure outcomes.

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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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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers. Insight Center.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Michael Porter, the godfather of business strategy, has gotten a lot of attention lately for trying to apply his model of competitive dynamics to the current plight of the United States — high unemployment, crushing healthcare costs, crumbling infrastructure, and widespread indebtedness. It is too little, too late.

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Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The current wave of populism is related, in part, to the robust tendency to overestimate globalization levels that I have termed “globaloney.” The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.”

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