Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Once the lines are laid and houses are connected to the grid, it's unlikely that power companies are going to see new entrants. Consider Porter's value chain. Where only the largest organizations could operate 24-hour call centers, today, even small organizations have access to companies like Global Response.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

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. By increasing scale companies could create efficiencies along the entire value chain through either operational excellence or bargaining power with suppliers and customers.

Strategy 9

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Efficiency 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

As Michael Porter argued a long time ago , the simplest measure of competition is profitability. Despite the internet and cheap, super-powerful computers, people aren’t seeing a lot of opportunity to challenge incumbents. There’s been growing attention to the power of intermediaries.

Sull 8

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Creating shared value , a paradigm for how companies engage with society pioneered by Michael Porter and FSG, captures this trampoline mentality very well. When corporations create shared value they increase their profits and create greater social impact, resulting in powerful transformations and innovations in both business and society.

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Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

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

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

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 today’s business environment, data can be a powerful source of competitive advantage.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Core Competence Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true not just on the surface but down to the marrow. That purpose is bigger than the company itself, providing natural cohesion, and it demands expansive thinking, driving innovation and progress. We have observed companies doing this to a certain degree.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Many management thinkers argue that it is no longer enough to do well financially; companies also need to improve the well-being of (or at least not harm) the communities in which they operate, the environment, and their employees. Porter and Mark R. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, writing in HBR ( December, 2006 and January-February, 2011 ), advance the idea of creating shared value by developing strategies and policies that enhance the competitiveness of the company while advancing social and economic conditions of the community.

Brand 14

Brand Porter Objective Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Throughout my professional life, I have kept a file in my computer containing articles that have either shaped my worldview or provided a powerful argument and data for a point of view I already held. In November 1996, Michael Porter published What Is Strategy? Here are just a few of the highlights.

Goleman 8

Goleman Emotional Intelligence Porter Covey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. 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

MAY 3, 2018

A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Michael Porter and I recognized this limitation in our work studying the organization and structure of cancer-care delivery and published a case study that aims to track the complexities of navigating the healthcare system. Online communities are a powerful, emerging avenue for insight into patient sentiment about a disease or therapy.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Porter System 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. The change Chandler describes actually began as far back as the industrial revolution, because that basically invented market power. The invisible hand was replaced by a visible one, belonging to a John D.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. Understand the "P-Cycle." HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

co-founded by Michael Porter back in the early 1980s, has seen better days. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As Michael Porter and Thomas H. Comparing these types of outcomes in a transparent and collaborative way can be a powerful motivator for improvement. For example, in 2008 the network discovered high rates of complications in bariatric surgery patients who had deep venous thrombosis (DVT) filters placed during their operation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

It's not even about power and privilege, corruption and compromise. Who's who — master and servant, mechanism and operator, principal and agent, sovereign and serf? Michael Porter has suggested that shared value be the linchpin the economy is held together by. This scandal isn't about price-fixing. It's not about a bank.

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Price Short-term Proposal System 14

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. And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them.

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. And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them.

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s proven power to affect voting turnout alarmed some, but that concern was largely hypothetical. Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. More and more of our waking minutes are spent looking at screens of various sizes.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 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.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly. 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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. Both in terms of operations and organization, this is certainly responsive to a more protectionist environment. In many cases, they are likely to prove more powerful if pursued in parallel. in the U.S., but our exports may decline.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8