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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

focus of Professor Robert Kaplan’s research and Executive Education teaching. He focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter , measuring the... View Details

18 Dec 2019
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'America has squandered the economic recovery': Harvard business professor says US failed to reduce deficits and shore up economic weaknesses during expansion - and blames hyper-partisan gridlock

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

January 2013 (Revised June 2016)
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The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jesus M. Valdaliso

The Basque country, with a population of 2.1 million and covering 7,233 square kilometers, is an autonomous region located in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region—highly prosperous at the turn of... View Details

Keywords: History; Crime and Corruption; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Microeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Basque Provinces; Spain

January 1978 (Revised February 1983)
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Polaroid-Kodak (B1)

Describes additional events in battle between Polaroid and Kodak outlined in Polaroid-Kodak. Includes the competitive actions taken by the companies such as the introduction of customer rebates and bonus plans with dealers. Details the new products of each company and... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211004-PDF-ENG The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F. Baron, Jacob M. Chacko, and Robin TangHarvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

1986
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Competition in Global Industries

Keywords: Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries

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14 Sep 2017
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Study: US Government Its Own Worst Enemy

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for... View Details

2002
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National Innovative Capacity

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

This chapter delves in detail into the conditions that allow a country to innovate at the global technology frontier. The findings reveal the striking degree to which the national circumstances actually explain the differences across countries in innovative activity... View Details

Keywords: Economics

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September 1988
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Skil Corp.

The portable electric power tool market in the United States was approximately $1.1 billion in 1979. There were about a dozen manufacturers competing in the U.S. market, of which five were U.S. companies. Skil was the third largest U.S. competitor. Skil was acquired by... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Emerging Markets; United States

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

received an appointment by Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and was named as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Ms. Beck was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Prior to... View Details

September 21, 2013
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Redefining Global Health-care Delivery

By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter

Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details

Keywords: Health

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December 2006 (Revised August 2007)
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Understanding Industry Structure

Examines the structural determinants of industry attractiveness (the Five Forces framework) and the implications of industry structure for strategy. View Details

Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy