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- January 2008
- Article
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
Porter, Michael E. "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 78–93.
- Web
The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- News
Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics
- May 20, 2024
- Article
Porter’s Five Forces and Competitive Advantage in Web3
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
Competitive strategy — the art of crafting and executing plans to achieve an advantageous position in the market — is integral to any business, and especially relevant for platforms because it determines their ability to achieve network effects and scale. But web3... View Details
Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Digital Transformation
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Liang Wu. "Porter’s Five Forces and Competitive Advantage in Web3." a16zcrypto.com (May 20, 2024).
- 18 Nov 2003
- Other Presentation
The U.S. Homebuilding Industry and The Competitive Position of Large Builders
Strategy presentation at the Centex Investor Conference, New York. Topics include: The structure of the homebuilding industry, the competitive advantages of large homebuilders, market assessment of homebuilding versus other industries and the role of investors in... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "The U.S. Homebuilding Industry and The Competitive Position of Large Builders." Centex Investor Conference, New York, NY, November 18, 2003.
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
meeting weekly at the Harvard i-lab, still talking, still sharing ideas. They also traveled to Mexico City in October 2017 to meet alumni (“I think we had 25 meetings in five days,” Campbell says) and conduct focus groups with potential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
front of the stage, Nohria used his first reunion address to broadly outline five priorities that will shape the agenda for the School during his tenure: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and... View Details
- October 2004
- Case
Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics (A)
By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
In the mid-1980s, Arrow, the world's largest electronics distributor, implemented a college recruiting program to hire salespeople. The program was part of an effort to increase the professionalism and skill set of the sales force in an industry where few salespeople... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Salesforce Management; Competition
Barro, Jason R., Brian J. Hall, and Aaron Zimmerman. "Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 905-041, October 2004.
- 08 Jan 2008
- News
May the forces be with you and your plans for 2008
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
transactional, and integrative—although these stages are not necessarily linear, nor does every company move through each stage. What are the key factors that force (or encourage) companies to move from one stage to another? Austin:... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
ideally suited to teaching best restructuring practices, because it forces you to put yourself in management's shoes, and understand the issues and challenges that managers actually face in these situations. The case study method is all... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
company? We’ve developed a number of great projects, roughly 25 between television and movies, that I’d like to get made in the next few years. If forced to pick one of each: -A period television series set in Paris that weaves back and... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
that having this distinction, people look at me differently, especially as a woman. It forces me to be a role model. It gives me a status I have to respect.” Being a woman in a male-dominated industry has provided Herlaut a unique... View Details
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
case method, exercises, simulations, and other aspects of our proven learning approach into our virtual programs. I am particularly excited to see the case method—which puts participants in the shoes of decision makers and forces them to... View Details
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
Quiet Logistics (A) and (B)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 115-001 and 115-003. View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
kits. Clement Dai (MBA 2018), along with Peter Zhe Chen (MBA 2018), Carmen Li (MBA 2016), Nyx (Xiyujin) He (HLS 2017), and Kylie Zhang (AB 2018), cofounded the group. The Task Force has connected with Harvard Center Shanghai, HBS alumni... View Details
- August 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy
By: Robert Simons
This module reading describes the basics of building a successful strategy. Topics in this module include a discussion of the distinction between corporate and business strategy; how to conduct a SWOT analysis of market dynamics and internal capabilities; the use of... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Business Strategy; Five Forces; Distinctive Capabilities; Emergent Strategy; Mission Statements; Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Competitive Advantage
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-102, August 2016. (Revised December 2016.)