Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

But as Michael Porter and I write in our recent Perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine , “ Why Strategy Matters Now ,” providers are unlikely to succeed if they cannot focus on this goal. Engaging in improvement-focused – rather than marketing-focused – transparency is hard work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Marketing Strategy Porter 8

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. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

Porter 11

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

running according to free-market efficiencies! Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. I know European-style systems aren't perfect — but the perfect, as any executive knows, is the enemy of the good enough.

Kaplan 20

Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 20

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. Had Netscape had an OS, it might have survived the Microsoft onslaught.

Porter 13

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In this regard, a closer examination of the value concept confirms its appeal but also exposes the daunting challenges facing health system reformers. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” In most markets consumers define value by purchasing and using things.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

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.

Porter 13

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 13

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 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.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

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.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

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

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

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. Or redesigning a company's entire store system and approach to customers. And what's hot on the corporate rialto by way of consulting work?

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

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?

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

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.

Price 14

Price Porter Early Adopters Long-term 14

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.

Technology 14

Technology Retail Supply Chain Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A hope for patent reform – using Tesla’s visibility as a way of provoking a better conversation that might ultimately change the system. Not exactly – despite the product it markets and sells to consumers. By contrast, here we are referring to the market-wide activities the company performs in its broader ecosystem.).

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

The main alternative is the Positioning School , whose ideas were most clearly expounded by Michael Porter. This theory states that success is dependent on positioning your business in a profitable market, where it will have or can gain a competitive advantage. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

RBV 9

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. The diversified power management company develops innovative products and processes, such as hybrid electric and hydraulic power trains and electric power control systems, that help customers and consumers conserve resources and reduce their carbon footprint. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems — and to help our most vulnerable citizens. I have an M.B.A.

Porter 9

Porter Welch Health Care Marketing 9

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.

Report 8

Report Short-term Press Release Compliance 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. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Recent studies of the efficiency and effectiveness rates of leading international NGOs and UN agencies have revealed the shortcomings of a system that, over the last half a century, has measured itself on process and not outcome. Take the example of child sponsorships, highly popular as a marketing tool for many NGOs.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

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. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-watched video was " Rethinking Capitalism " with Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. CEO Steve Stoute explained why marketers should worry less about traditional demographics and pay attention to hip-hop culture. How Retailers Are Reinventing Shopping. Video interview. The Tanning of America.

Video 14

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 14

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. As they put it, “a mix of explorer, professional, and shopper.”

Industry 8

Industry Hotels Travel Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

They include a weak K-12 education system; inadequate worker skills; a shortage of workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; restrictions on skilled immigrants; the crumbling infrastructure and a high corporate tax rate. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. But to spark that growth, U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

That's what Michael Porter says , and tough-choice-making has clearly been a big part of Apple's success. To quote Porter: "Strategy renders choices about what not to do as important as choices about what to do." To circle back to Porter : A company can outperform rivals only if it can establish a difference that it can preserve.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Porter and Mark R. Further, the greater the awareness of your type of technology in the community, the larger the market is likely to actually be.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

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. Michael Porter to some extent, and Hayes and Abernathy, said that U.S. So this view that U.S. I think if U.S.

Short-term 8

Short-term Porter Long-term Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

Porter 8

Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As consolidation expands, data and transparency become increasingly important, as a way to ensure that caregivers across the system are providing comparable care. To remain viable in today’s rapidly evolving environment, health care systems must reduce costs while continuing to improve quality and outcomes.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9