Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

That same year, in an article entitled “Computer Graphics for Decision Making,” IBM engineer Irvin Miller introduced HBR’s readers to a potent new computing technology that was part of the 360 — the interactive graphical display terminal. Technology' Intuition-support is, in fact, the point for Miller.

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Porter Price Technology Constraint 9

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.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Seeking to extend its technological edge (particularly in miniaturization), it acquired more than 100 startup companies while pursuing a vast portfolio of research and product development projects. For your declared purpose to have authentic relevance and power, it must ring true not just on the surface but down to the marrow.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

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. Consider these examples: 1.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

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. See, for example, " Creating Shared Value ," by Michael E. That's the good news. The bad news is that stellar performance on both dimensions is no common or easy feat.

Company 10

Company Long-term Porter CEO 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

technologies could be used on organizations' intranet and extranets". Some people tie it to Michael Porter's Shared Value concept. is too technological. Social Era" then captures two distinct power shifts: Organizational. Anyone can be a game changer by using the power of their ideas. Enterprise 2.0" Individual.

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Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

They demanded nothing less than the latest technological wizardry, married to state of the art design, coupled with bleeding edge service. But that just means that the power to vanquish them is already resting gently in our hands. Once, American consumers were among the world's most sophisticated. But that's no longer enough.

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Schiller Porter Fashion Cost 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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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. In this context, as the Olympian firms broaden their offerings, their challenge becomes maintaining their pricing power, their ability to charge strategy-level rates for types of work that consultants from Deloitte or Ernst & Young will offer to do for a lot less.

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Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE. As for whether America really needs manufacturing to maintain its economic strength, Harvard Business School professors Gary P.

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Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Facebook’s proven power to affect voting turnout alarmed some, but that concern was largely hypothetical. Still, we’re entering a brave new world where the creators of technology platforms can activate billions of users to specific political action of their choosing. And Facebook is by no means the only example.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions.

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PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 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

JULY 27, 2016

I first started working for Apple on the PR agency side at Porter Novelli in Sydney, Australia in 1997. Our mission was to tell the story of how our innovative products were giving customers the power to unleash their creativity and change the world. Wesson Wang. Stay focused.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

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. For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees. Providing a guarantee verses a direct loan has a number of advantages.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

That wasn’t as magical as it might seem, he argued in the 1979 piece, since the required technologies already existed in some form or other. Fast forward a decade or so, and the Internet’s power to decrease profit margins has become the stuff of legend. It’s still worth a look now.

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Porter Power Competitive Advantage Film 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Michael Porter’s 1979 HBR article on the five forces that shape strategy offered companies a framework for thinking through those positions, and his 1996 article “What Is Strategy? However, even in dynamic, technology-driven industries like social media, moats remain a powerful force.

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Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 10

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

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." Of course, modern technology businesses have some other unique strategic characteristics.

Strategy 9

Strategy Porter Christensen Mauborgne 9

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.” It is a powerful statement that defines our aspiration and purpose.”

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 12

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every company needs infrastructure – roads, bridges, ports – and every company benefits from the new technologies made possible by basic scientific research. Starting around 1980, however, shifts in technology, geopolitics, and governance changed the game. Every company benefits from an educated populace.

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Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Behavioral economists know well the power of instant gratification and overoptimism that too often lead to poor decisions — like reaching for an extra slice of cake or putting off the dreaded morning run. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model.

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Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 9

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. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. Porter is a member in good standing of the business-community Kagame fan club, and has just finished a new version of his case study (an earlier one is available here ) on Rwanda''s economic transformation.

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Stories are rhetorically far more powerful than references to elaborate economic models. According to a recent IMF report , technological progress and the decline of unions have both contributed to the increase in inequality, with globalization playing a smaller but reinforcing role. economy on globalization.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

It's a sad day when the party of Reagan trots out a Power Point-toting Paul Ryan to inspire voters, with his message of small government and individual responsibility straight from the pages of Ayn Rand. For example, Michael Porter describes new approaches to regulation that stipulate measurable social improvements from initiatives.

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Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8