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- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
competitive strategy expert Michael E. Porter, of Harvard Business School. The competitive challenges now facing the UK have been made significantly worse by years of inaction. “Our worry is that the UK...
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by Michael Blanding
- September 2012
- Other Article
An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism
By: Michaela Driver and Michael E. Porter
In this interview Michael Porter explores social entrepreneurship in the context of a larger transformation of capitalism. He suggests that social entrepreneurship is an important transitional vehicle toward the creation of shared value and a capitalist system in which...
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Driver, Michaela, and Michael E. Porter. "An Interview with Michael Porter: Social Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of Capitalism." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 3 (September 2012): 421–431.
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
described exactly the same way.” Garcia-Rada is lead author on a new working paper about the study, co-written with Leslie John, the James E. Burke Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and Michael...
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- 31 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization
- 09 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Need for (Long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
- 23 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on their own things," says...
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by Michael Blanding
- spring 1986
- Book Review
Book Review of No Free Lunch: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today, edited by Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott in Calories Count in Cuba
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Book Review of No Free Lunch: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today, edited by Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott in Calories Count in Cuba." Caribbean Review (spring 1986).
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value for patients. Professor View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
There’s a scene in the drama series Mad Men when junior ad exec Peggy Olson complains to her mercurial boss Don Draper, “You never say thank you.” Don peevishly replies: “That’s what the money is for!” Harvard Business School Professors Rawi View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
- July 22, 1990
- Article
Japan Isn't Playing by Different Rules
By: M. E. Porter
Porter, M. E. "Japan Isn't Playing by Different Rules." New York Times (July 22, 1990).
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
"That world has been disappearing," says Luis M. Viceira, the George E. Bates Professor at Harvard Business School. "In the past few years, there have been zero defined benefit plans created in the United States. The trend,...
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- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index...
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- November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019
By: Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram and Thomas W. Feeley
Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg’s Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a...
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Health Care;
Michael Porter;
Jens Deerberg-Wittram;
Clifford Marks;
Prostate Cancer;
Health Care Policy;
Value Agenda;
Integrated Practice Units;
Outcomes Measurement;
Health Care and Treatment;
Value;
Health Disorders;
Insurance;
Medical Specialties;
Outcome or Result;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business Processes;
Insurance Industry;
Health Industry;
Germany
Porter, Michael E., Jens Deerberg-Wittram, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-359, November 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
Innovation has always relied, to some degree, on government support. But a recent study suggests that public funding might be even more influential than it seems. “Nearly a third of US patents rely directly on US government funded research,” says Dennis A. Yao,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical...
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- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alison Wood Brooks. “It was surprising to see such a devious twist that people would take advantage of someone in an anxious state” "People who are perfectly healthy feel anxious many times each day," she says....
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by Michael Blanding