Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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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Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Would it be classic, humorous Adam Sandler a la Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, or Anger Management? Admiral Porter – Try not to cause a total panic. He told Admiral Porter to let the nerds take over. Real leaders aren’t in a position of leadership to gain recognition. You may still be able to contribute.

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Cooper Leadership Porter Video 120

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." And even Porter doesn't try to impose his framework on the discussion of government's role in society. Says Porter when Mahindra is done: "A.

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Porter Licensing Article Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different. When you read a business book or attend a presentation on a particular management practice, it is a good habit to explicitly ask, “What might it not be good for?” When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Take the company Aravind Eye Care in India.

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Management Learning Curve Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Here are five more traps I've seen managers fall into over and over again. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. In a previous post, I focused on the fallacy of competing to be the best.

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Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Review Strategy Books Positioning 85

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 15, 2010

The hotel staff was upbeat, positive and friendly. If there is a misalignment of values between the leader and those who follow, then generally, a less than positive working environment is the result and poor attitudes tend to prevail. For me, you’ve struck at the key difference between management and leadership.

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Hotels Leadership Blog Porter 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But if you want to win, says Michael Porter , this is absolutely the wrong way to think about competition. Management writers — and leaders seeking to inspire — regularly reinforce it by using colorful metaphors from warfare and sports. Instead, Porter urges a different kind of competition: compete to be unique.

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Porter Sports Price Benchmarking 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Maximizing the effectiveness of physicians and nurses in these new positions, however, will require different skills than the ones they developed during their clinical training. Many clinicians manage a small operation in the form of their own clinical practice or ward before shifting to leading larger operations. People leadership.

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Execution Skills Health Care Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

From Michael Porter to Costas Markides and through the Blue Oceans of Kim and Mauborgne, strategy scholars have been urging executives to distinguish their firm’s offerings and carve out a unique market position. For decades, strategy gurus have been telling firms to differentiate. Underestimate them at your peril.

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McKinsey Mauborgne Competitive Advantage Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. We wrote: All profit is not equal, an idea that has been lost in the narrow, short-term focus of financial markets and in much management thinking. -based companies using questionable corporate practices that are entirely legal.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. — has now put American employers in an untenable position. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Suffice it to say that my sexual partner and I weren't exactly holding hands across twin bathtubs. Actually, none of that has ever happened. Thank heavens.)

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As Brabeck-Letmathe declared in Nestlé’s 2016 CSV report , which quantifies the company’s annual progress across a comprehensive set of key performance indicators: “Creating Shared Value is our way of delivering a long-term positive impact for shareholders and society, through everything that we do as a company.”

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Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? A company's unique "core" capabilities are its crown jewels, although they are all too often taken for granted with the result that execution issues are frequently confused with competitive positioning and strategy. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

In today’s resource-constrained environment, many of us are delivering 120% on the current demands of our job—but devoting little time to developing ourselves further or positioning ourselves for a future move. She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The report came from a task force led by Rotman School of Management Dean and HBR contributor Roger Martin. If I had to speculate — I have not yet examined the underlying numbers for Canada — I would posit that the gap is related to trade and to Canada's proximity to the U.S.

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Innovation Porter Rogers Human Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

It seems evident that the split does not create a new resource, and it is not obvious why splitting would enable the management team to exploit existing resources better. The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

Managers want employees to put in long days, respond to their emails at all hours, and willingly donate their off-hours — nights, weekends, vacation — without complaining. Some of these are negative (see: guilt, anxiety) but many are positive. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. At least, that’s one narrative of overwork.

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Company Stress Porter Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Gurus Michael Porter and Mark Kramer have tried to reframe the role of CSR by putting forth the concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) as an alternate model, with "innovation and growth" as one of three primary value propositions.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Umair Haque, author of Betterness , argued persuasively that industrial output is no measure of human outcomes. Audio podcast.

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Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I can’t imagine, recalling my days at Rio Tinto, the managers of a copper mine measuring and proudly reporting how much dirt was moved, how deep the hole was, and how many trucks they had procured – while staying mum about how much copper was produced. To a business person, think how absurd this would seem.

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Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

A second, more radical solution is to create budgets and authority for a service line or integrated practice unit (IPU) that manages a patient’s entire treatment for a high-volume medical condition. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Under managerial capitalism, overall production was no longer driven by market mechanisms; it was decided on by skilled managers in large companies. If you are a reader of management literature, as evidently you are, you cannot have failed to encounter the phrase "sustainable competitive advantage."

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Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

A 2010 poll by The Pew Research Center found that the public had a more positive view of them than any other institution in the country – they beat out both churches and universities, for instance, as well as tech companies. America loves small businesses. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. understand how the organization has impact on these stakeholders, both positively and negatively (74%). engage in effective dialogue (75%).

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S. These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. Only their R&D share rose during the last decade. economy is smaller by most measures.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

But to name the one piece that has resonated most with me in recent years, I would have to single out " Creating Shared Value " by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer. If you haven't read it, the point is to present an alternative to many business managers' fixation on creating shareholder value. Shared value was created. What Is Strategy?

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Porter Maturity Proposal Article 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Porter and Mark R. As Porter and Kramer argue, such non-monetary assistance reflecting a company’s existing expertise can surpass the social impact achieved per dollar expended through traditional philanthropy.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Insurance is therefore a natural shared value industry — one that can employ the idea proposed by Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Mark Kramer of FSG in 2011. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model. What makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g.,

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Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. But by and large manager s understand that they need to do both things – create a difficult-to-imitate competitive position, but also seize new opportunities, find new ways to compete. They both have something useful to say. Okay – what’s the thesis? .

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Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Of course it was natural for a boss to have mixed feelings about seeing a valued employee move on, but David was more than Mark’s manager: He was his mentor. “Chairman Park asked me to tell you how much he wants you to take this position. There was one in particular who did quite well — Mr. Ryan Porter.

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Legendary strategists have long been compared to master chess players, who know the positions and capabilities of each piece on the board and are capable of thinking several moves ahead. In the 1980s, Michael Porter built on this idea and made it more possible for managers to act on with his concept of value chains.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Many companies have good economic reasons to get creative—and you should never underestimate the actions that individual companies take in their own interests, but which also have positive social effects. How will you manage the risks that environmental change create? Here’s just one example.

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Price Constraint Resources Cost 8