Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In Operation Desert Storm , more than 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait, fixed themselves into strategic positions — in front lines — to combat U.S. When Netscape Navigator imagined the disruption of Microsoft Windows, it forgot that its web browser was an add-on on the operating system.

Porter 13

Porter Banking Globalization Information Technology 13

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.”

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. When profits embody societal benefits, a positive cycle of company and community prosperity will lead to profits that endure. Nor does political rebellion serve companies or their shareholders well.

Politics 8

Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Many companies can and do create immense positive social impact. Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. employees who want to be proud of their workplace. investors who ultimately determine the company’s value and fate.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

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. Can you drive both new opportunities and new behavior within your organization while achieving social impact?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 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. It helped him both discover an interest in consulting and move into an advisory position two years later.

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Three lines of progress are crossing, and rapidly reshaping how businesses and nonprofits together strengthen the locales in which they operate. Child sponsorships have been operating since 1953, and all of them share the high-level objective of breaking the cycle of poverty. This is what is going on now in community development.

Trends 8

Trends Development Net Present Value NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. Michel Porter and Mark Kramer pioneered the idea of “creating shared value,” arguing that businesses can generate economic value by identifying and addressing social problems that intersect with their business.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? which argued that operational excellence alone is not strategy, and that the truly enduring companies create a unique customer experience. Today, I realize that at least two-thirds of the gems in my "Great Articles" file emanate from HBR.

Goleman 8

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Today, 710,000 fewer Americans work for multinationals than a decade ago, and their position in the U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

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. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 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 9

RBV Competitive Advantage Resources Media 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. Porter Airways created an online poll asking the public where they’d like to fly and promoted it on Facebook.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, operating deliberately and with sufficient power and intent to change the shape of markets. This is what all managers in all firms aspire to — it is the holy grail that lies at the end of the search for excellence, and the promise of Michael Porter's teachings.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

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. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. Size and speed. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman. engage in effective dialogue (75%).

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

First, there is someone else in the picture, most often a bank, which also has a stake in having a positive outcome. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Porter and Mark R. Porter and Kramer give a classic example of ecosystem-supporting philanthropy: a company contributes to help improve area schools, which would eventually improve the labor pool from which they hire staff. In The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy , Michael E.

Porter 10

Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Start with Michael Porter. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. They both have something useful to say. Okay – what’s the thesis? .

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months. “Chairman Park asked me to tell you how much he wants you to take this position. You are exactly the kind of leader we want.

Case Study 8

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.

Strategy 9

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. Here’s just one example. How will you manage the risks that environmental change create?

Price 8

Price Constraint Resources Cost 8