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.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

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. But to be fair to the U.S.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. To be sure, you can still occasionally find a company buying a whole-hog, build-me-a-strategy-from-the-ground-up project. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This cover story, by Michael Porter, suggests that companies and government need to get outside an outdated approach to value creation. Today, Porter says, companies must reconnect company success with social progress, not as philanthropy, but as a way to achieve economic success. trillion by 2020.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Sign up for a project outside your main area. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. This was a situation devoutly to be wished for by most social causes, but it proved limiting and almost fatal to Mary''s project. Put the right words around the project, and stick with them.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis.

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 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.

PR 8

PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Yet a fundamental tenet of our project and the blog series about it is that slums present complex challenges that can't be fixed with a clever shack alone. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. We simply disagree with the idea that if it's a market, it can't also be a socially progressive solution.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity. 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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. These trends likely result in market-share gains for providers that deliver high quality at lower costs.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

These ratings are then used by company marketing departments to impress customers, thereby driving volume and revenue. One industry standard promoted by a ratings agency, for example, is that a porter or bellman must “explain features and functions” of a room when delivering your luggage. These ratings cannot be ignored.

Hotels 8

Hotels Travel Porter CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

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. We believe that others can learn from Mayo’s disciplined approach for value realization projects. Insight Center.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 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. Product developers have every intention of finishing development on time, but invariably things take longer and cost more than people projected. Sales were low.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

You can go back 25 years and hear the same argument from Michael Porter. Porter said the U.S. Because, again, in venture capital you’re presumably investing in risky, long-term projects. Kaplan: If you go back 40 years you can find the same arguments from Marty Lipton, and from Hayes and Abernathy in HBR. I think if U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Porter Long-term Kaplan 8

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. Altogether, the model is employed in 15 markets, impacting over 5.5 This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model.

Insurance 9

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. For all these reasons, purely market-focused strategies oblivious to the sociopolitical context are more likely than ever to prove blinkered. This is not just true for the U.S. but everywhere… This requires dramatic transformation. in the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8