Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. Consider Porter's value chain. Develop a strategy that doesn't simply rely on being the biggest.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system. Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. The military head-to-head battle strategy has a business equivalent.

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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.". The Innovation Continuum. Consider these examples: 1.

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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.” 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'

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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. 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. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Yet although the lay observer can understand the reasons for these corporate break-ups, the frameworks and ideas that underpin strategy theory are actually pretty unhelpful when considering whether or not to initiate a break-up. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy? My own solution is to add a concept to the RBV.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A strategy of enticing other automakers to adopt Tesla’s standards in order for Tesla to become the supplier of choice for other automakers when it comes to batteries and specialty parts for EVs. A hope for patent reform – using Tesla’s visibility as a way of provoking a better conversation that might ultimately change the system.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. Some may not have attractive social or environmental strategies; some may have misalignment between those strategies and the overall corporate strategy; and some may have incomplete measures of social or environmental practices. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This approach is nowhere near enough to tackle the pressing problems we all face — water scarcity, low quality education systems, an aging population in some parts of the world, a rapidly growing one in others, and so on. An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. But trampolines propel things forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2012

At any given point in time, the market will find equilibrium. If you are at all familiar with Michael Porter's work , think about this as an industry developing its value chain. In urban areas, the retail grocery market was dominated by corner store grocers who delivered food to within walking distance of customer homes.

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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 is business really so competitive – not in a few prominent industries, but in the economy as a whole?

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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. The system has lost sight of the point of reporting: to give companies access to financial capital by communicating their value to investors.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2011

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 ). For one, it explains why concert venues don't price so high that scalping markets are killed off.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. We sat down with Gartner's Anthony Bradley, author of The Social Organization , and HBS's Misiek Piskorski, author of " Social Strategies that Work ," to talk about the future of this fast-growing phenomenon. Video interview.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

” The men thought that these customers, on arrival, really did not need a porter to pick up their luggage and carry it to their room – after all, they had likely just brought it all the way from the airport on their own. Strategies for staying ahead. As they put it, “a mix of explorer, professional, and shopper.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

What I am pretty sure about is that the how of Apple's fall (or continued rise) will hinge on strategy — because strategy has driven its success. Because strategy is all about making choices. That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. How do I know that?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

I spoke with contributor Don Sull , who teaches strategy at MIT and the London Business School, about the tension between scholars who put sustainable competitive advantage at the center of strategy and those who argue that some industries are changing too quickly to allow for sustained performance. Start with Michael Porter.

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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. system of allocating investment capital is failing, putting American companies at a serious disadvantage. Amazon’s strategy, however, was pretty clear, and Amazon has been rewarded with very high valuations over time.

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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.

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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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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. ” These organizations are accepting the fact that the volume-driven system is in its dying days, and that the future will demand that they deliver demonstrably better value: improved outcomes, lower costs, or both.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Cross-country evidence shows that higher education levels in a country cause levels of nationalism and suspicion of outsiders to decrease; one study found this to be true in 10 countries with quite different educational systems. Nonmarket Strategy. At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia.

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