Publications

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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

12 Jan 2014
News

Better measuring a country

13 May 2014
Other Presentation

Creating Shared Value: Becoming a Movement

By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer

CSV presentation from the 2014 Shared Value Leadership Summit held by FSG. Topics include: shared value momentum, shared value in extractives, and shared value and investors. View Details

Keywords: Extractive Industries; Investing; Investment; Creating Shared Value; Society; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; New York (city, NY)

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2004
Chapter

Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity: Findings from the Business Competitiveness Index

In The Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004
Competitiveness has become a central preoccupation of both advanced and developing countries in an increasingly open and integrated world economy. Despite its acknowledged importance, the concept of competitiveness... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development

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January 1978 (Revised February 1983)
Case

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

1998
Book

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

Keywords: Strategy

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15 Dec 2023
News

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

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC). Key Benefits In this program, you will use a value framework—first introduced by HBS professor Michael View Details

September 1988
Case

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

1986
Book

Competition in Global Industries

Keywords: Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

full-size products. Palliative Care of America David Matly Michael Matly Business Track Runner-Up Palliative Care of America provides the best quality of life for seriously and terminally ill patients by... View Details

12 Jun 2015
News

Report: In bitter energy debate, nobody wins

December 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Background Note

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

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Past Issues - Alumni

looking to build a business that can keep its bounce In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim spent his formative years in the US. As his novel ‘Offerings’ heads for the big screen, Asia’s “godfather of private equity” reflects on time,... View Details

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

and in their accomplishments, as the playwright Arthur Miller has written, we leave our ‘thumb prints on the future.’” Thousands of Christensen’s students, including HBS Professor Michael E. Porter, went on... View Details

2002
Chapter

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