Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This gives you enough money to fund you pet projects or cut costs without any effort when you are forced to do so. Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Inflate budgets.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter's most important insights for managers. Understanding Porter's strategy fundamentals will help you to avoid them. In industry after industry, Porter notes that economies of scale are exhausted at a relatively small share of industry sales. Mistake #1.

Strategy 15

Strategy Porter ROIC Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Women of color are asked to do more low-promotability projects, and we talk with inclusion strategist Ruchika Tulshyan about how they can say no. — tasks that won’t show off our skills or get us promoted, and how that slows down our career advancement and makes us unhappy at work. Williams and Marina Multhaup. Kolb and Jessica L.

P&L 10

P&L Porter Download Career 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Porter and Jan W. Competitiveness project spearheaded by Porter and Rivkin, and by experts we've invited to participate in the HBR Insight Center on American Competitiveness. The pages of HBR and hbr.org have in recent weeks been full of suggestions for how to make the U.S. more competitive? (I

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Rivkin Porter Participative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E.

Health Care 8

Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

We put a call out to some of our favorite management thinkers and asked what challenges they were going to take on next — and what an inspiring set of projects it yielded. What project would you describe, and why is it so vital? Are there patterns among them? Tell us in the comments section here: What tops your 2011 Agenda?

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Schein Porter Project Magazine 14

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. But to be fair to the U.S.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Of course, this only works for skunkworks projects. Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo.

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Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But research into the inner workings of teams, particularly creative teams, suggests a different conclusion, one supported by experience from many of the most innovative companies: The best teams might temporary, with members forming around a given project and then going their separate ways to work on new projects. Leading teams'

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Team Diversity Porter Project 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

For example, when Caitlin Zaino, Founder of Porter & Sail, a hospitality company, was expecting her first child, she was desperate find an example of another female founder who’d juggled childbirth and running a startup. The firm is now in its second year, with a team of 13, and zero attrition by new parents.

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Porter Policies Attrition Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

They may have done a swell $2 million strategy study for a client, but then have to watch from the sidelines as a more broadly based firm swoops in to do the $15 million project — a total systems redesign, say, or a corporate reorganization — entailed in implementing the strategy. Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

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.

Innovation 15

Innovation Succession Porter Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Some companies have allowed employees up to 20% of their time to work on their own projects, but I know of no company that helps leaders free up their time to work on the frontier of their jobs. Sign up for a project outside your main area. One of my students signed up for a project to re-think best leadership practices at his company.

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Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 11

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. In 2006 alone, Nokia introduced 39 new mobile-device models.

Strategy 13

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

At many workplaces, we often lack the rituals and spaces to end projects and tenures. The designer Jan Chipchase, for example, conducts decompression camps after intense projects to truly give meaning to the term “post-mortem.” president’s helicopter takeoff into the unknown.

How To 12

How To Career Porter Long-term 12

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. We worked with a diverse network of partners as part of PopTech's Innovation Accelerator program.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter. Finally, HBR's gurus tend to publish early in an idea's lifecycle — during the pilot or project phase — though not at the very beginning. Understand the "P-Cycle."

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness. An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

This was a situation devoutly to be wished for by most social causes, but it proved limiting and almost fatal to Mary''s project. Strategy is what you don''t do, not just what you do , as my HBS colleague Michael Porter has said. Put the right words around the project, and stick with them. Prove the concept you want to prove.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Combining these creates a P&L and a projection, which through a discounted cash flow analysis yields an NPV, which can be used to assess valuation. This was all done through physical, smart, connected devices and sensors, which monitored, controlled, and optimized the units with increasing autonomy via continuous learning. Sound familiar?

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Discounted Cash Flow P&L NPV EBITDA 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Yet a fundamental tenet of our project and the blog series about it is that slums present complex challenges that can't be fixed with a clever shack alone. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. The authors have an implicit negative view on business. For them, profit seems to be a dirty word.

Suri 14

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

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. Sometimes this would frustrate our internal clients who wanted more market noise about their pet projects or people. Wesson Wang. Many significant products, software updates, and personnel changes went by with barely a PR push.

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PR Press Release Report Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

Therefore, continuous communication, joint projects, and stakeholder engagement are what is needed to build constructive working relationships with those constituencies. Both regulators and NGOs want to be engaged as partners with the company in addressing the social and environmental issues they care about.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Audience 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

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. This requirement often has employees pointing at televisions, saying, “Here’s the TV.”

Hotels 8

Hotels Travel Porter CRM 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. By also pursuing other concrete opportunities (e.g.,

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. We helped the leading NGOs start growth projects for their own constituencies. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. Witness Chris Lazslo's work on sustainable value , and Michael Porter's theorizing about shared value.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity. Clusters have gained credibility as a policy tool in the last decade since work by Mercedes Delgado, Michael Porter, and Scott Stern showed that strong clusters drove better economic performance.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. . billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

If dead, despotic French emperors are not really your style, Michael Porter said it like this: “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”. When you leave projects undone or only half-completed, you must sacrifice that feeling of confidence and control that comes from pursuing a concrete goal ( PDF ).

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Strategic Planning Planning Porter Project 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. We believe that others can learn from Mayo’s disciplined approach for value realization projects.

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Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Rezavandi’s strategic early warning methodology starts with the company’s existing strategy, then synthesizes the cacophony of competitive information into hypotheses about the future using Michael Porter’s strategic frameworks (think: substitutes, buyers, and suppliers). This helps keep the team’s efforts focused.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Product developers have every intention of finishing development on time, but invariably things take longer and cost more than people projected. There's one project I've been watching that has literally been three months away from shipping for 18 months now. The sales force enthusiastically projected big sales. Sales were low.

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

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. Because, again, in venture capital you’re presumably investing in risky, long-term projects. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project. Minnesota’s Itasca Project is an excellent example of this approach. In the Minneapolis-St.

Resources 8

Resources Company Rivkin Short-term 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. Pilot projects show that a single improved highway ramp can save lives and save IAG approximately $600,000 (AUD) per year.

Insurance 10

Insurance Company Competitive Advantage Porter 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Hanguk’s leadership would be watching the project closely, because expansion to the Arab world was one of its top strategic objectives. There was one in particular who did quite well — Mr. Ryan Porter. This was a dream job for Mark, and now, it seemed, he had it if he wanted it. “That’s great news! .

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Case Study Career Biotechnology Course 8