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- 15 Sep 2017
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Harvard professor has a novel way to fix Washington before 2018
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Competitiveness in a Globalised World: Michael Porter on the Microeconomic Foundations of the Competitiveness of Nations, Regions, and Firms
By: Michael E. Porter, Brian Snowdon and George Stonehouse
In this paper, we provide the text of an interview with Professor Michael Porter discussing his research and ideas relating to the microeconomic foundations of global competitiveness. The discussion provides a microeconomic perspective on some of the key issues...
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Economics
Porter, Michael E., Brian Snowdon, and George Stonehouse. "Competitiveness in a Globalised World: Michael Porter on the Microeconomic Foundations of the Competitiveness of Nations, Regions, and Firms." Journal of International Business Studies 37, no. 2 (March 2006): 163–175.
- 29 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services
- 28 Oct 2006
- News
Professor says Health Care System can be Fixed
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
preset communication protocols to convene the crisis-response team and warn staff. Leaders should be able to pull combinations of pre-set response "modules" off the shelf. — Michael Watkins 4. A designated chain of command. One...
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by Michael Watkins
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Giving Through HBS
control, Baker Foundation Professor Bob Kaplan’s development of the balanced scorecard, or Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter’s insights on...
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Professor Howard Stevenson
- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
performance. Michael Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. [Image: Unsplash/Andrej Lišakov] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives...
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by Michael Beer
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
"Every organization attempting to accomplish something has to ask and answer the following question," writes HBS professor Michael C. Jensen in the introduction to his recent working paper:...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer. The only way to do so is by...
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by Michael E. Porter
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
assessments of you will take on additional importance. Your relationship with your new boss will be built through a series of conversations.— Michael Watkins Establishing How You Will Work Together It's essential to figure out how you and...
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by Michael Watkins
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and inflating results, and it...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the...
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- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove,...
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- 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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- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates...
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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
players, and actors—can teach us a number of strategies for distinguishing lies from truth. 1. Listen With All Your Senses University of California Medical School, San Francisco, professor Paul Ekman has pioneered the study of what he...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
the agency implied that it would respect the public’s wishes, say Michael Norton and Leslie John, both professors at Harvard Business School. “When firms conduct online polls,...
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