Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. But the technologies that drove these coordination-related scale advantages are becoming increasingly cheaper and more pervasive. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

Porter 14

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Eventually Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and outflanked it by eliminating the market for a paid browser. Firms must thoroughly understand themselves and their competitors through appropriate environment scanning and market intelligence. Eventually, some incumbents adapted and invested in technology as well.

Porter 14

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

My current favorite example comes from Net-a-Porter reaching out to my wife. Simply calling this a clever promotion or thoughtful UX or engagement marketing misses the (touch)point. Of course, it’s part of Net-a-Porter’s larger UX but, in the moment, what’s perceived and experienced is a value-added touchpoint.

Porter 8

Porter Definition Environment Course 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

An approach that turns societal challenges into new markets. Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. If you're a healthcare technology provider like GE, you're worried about the healthcare sector at home and abroad.

Porter 15

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The new ideology would not see markets as an end in themselves; instead, it would value global trade and investment to the extent that they contributed to a flourishing middle class, not just to greater aggregate national wealth. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc.

Consultative 15

Consultative Porter Management Press Release 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. Moreover, its Arsenal was no longer at the cutting edge of naval technology. This age of exploration triggered the beginning of Venice’s decline.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

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 14

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

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

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

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. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

Management 20

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 20

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

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

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 10

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about. technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. is too technological. Enterprise 2.0" Individual.

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent. Porter and colleagues adapt microeconomics to health care through their definition of output: patient-centered health outcomes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

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 ). Instead, it entails reconceiving a company's product and markets, reinventing its value chain, and strengthening the productivity of the communities in which it operates.

Porter 14

Porter Core Competence Globalization Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Time 's Michael Elliott, who was moderating the session, then cited Chrystia Freeland's Atlantic cover story on "The Rise of the New Global Elite" and Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's HBR cover story on "Creating Shared Value" as evidence of a new mood. "I "We cannot let the income disparities increase further.". as Jacob S.

Porter 15

Porter Trends Policies Film 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

As Apple, Warby Parker, Net a Porter, and Shinola all know: Cool is perhaps the crucial factor in the success of new products. In short, Google made a fatal error of post-modern marketing: it attempted to buy cool through the not-so-subtle techniques of influence, persuasion, and manufactured buzz. Cool is not trivial.

Fashion 8

Fashion Advertorial Porter Engineering 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. For us, our strategy informs every big decision we make — what markets to enter or exit, what acquisitions to make, what products to introduce." (The

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Porter and Mark R. One of Adidas's latest sustainable innovations is DryDye technology, which removes the need for water in the dyeing process. This new breed of leaders not only rejects the idea that financial market demands are more important than stakeholders' needs but also demonstrates that companies can excel at meeting both.

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Many organizations still operate by Porter's Value Chain model , where Z follows Y, which follows X. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. But real markets are much more precise.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

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

MARCH 7, 2012

businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. 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. million workers, at U.S.

Globalization 10

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. 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 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

JUNE 7, 2011

The rising tide of New Capitalism, what Michael Porter calls " shared value " and what Umair Haque calls " thick value ," is perhaps the most important reaction to the corruption and greed that spurred the most recent global economic crisis. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. For them, profit seems to be a dirty word.

Suri 15

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 15

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

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

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

Business Model 85

Business Model Review Books Innovation 85

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review. Having read all [.].

Business Model 70

Business Model Review Books Innovation 70

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

JUNE 18, 2018

Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company is to achieve both shareholder profit and social purpose — would “reinvent capitalism.” Andy Roberts/Getty Images.

Marketing 12

Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

It was this received opinion Michael Porter was questioning when, in 1979, he mapped out four additional competitive forces in “ How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy.” In “ What Is Strategy ,” Porter argues against a bevy of alternate views, both old and then new, that were circulating in the intervening years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Porter Blue Ocean Strategy Luehrman 8