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On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- 03 Nov 2014
- News
A Recap of the U.S. News Hospital of Tomorrow Forum 2014
- 15 Apr 2015
- News
Starbucks Is Serving Up Full Foam in a Frothy Market
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
contributed an essay on creative capitalism to the blog Creative Capitalism: A Conversation (No longer available, -ed.), run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. We reprint her comments here with permission... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
How customer complaints help companies
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
position: the chief experience officer or CXO." A knowledge of customer experiences can be invaluable in the design and distribution of a product or service. We were convinced of that by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their influential... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2010
- News
Seven ways to see the world in a new light
- August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Taking Dell Private
By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer
In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Collis, David J., David B. Yoffie, and Matthew Shaffer. "Taking Dell Private." Harvard Business School Case 714-421, August 2013. (Revised December 2014.)
- 04 Aug 2017
- News
The negative side of positive thinking
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise. Rivkin's most recent case, coauthored with former HBS colleague Michael Roberto and published this year, is "Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11." The case... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and David Perry... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
backlash from other organizational members. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/mcqxpioCi4O4ZaScUhLN][/div] In response to the broader perspective offered by his team’s devil’s advocate, one CEO shared that he took proposed... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
book excerpt Evolving Committments From The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By JOSEPH L. BADARACCO In a turbulent, sometimes dangerous world, responsible leaders need a broader view of critical decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
Searching for the True Cost of Health Care
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
horizontal integration," Silk explains. To better understand the dynamics that mold the media industry from within, Silk and his coauthors adapted the "five forces" model of competitiveness developed by HBS professor View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
early weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
working with HBS professor Michael Chu on a microfinance case involving the largest concrete manufacturer in Mexico, CEMEX, and its self-construct housing program for families whose incomes average $3,780 per year. CEMEX has over 80,000... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- Panel Discussion
The Competitive Challenge For America in the 21st Century
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, The National Summit on American Competitiveness convened leaders of business, government, academia and the research community to address the core components of U.S. competitiveness. Michael Porter participated on the panel... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Challenge For America in the 21st Century." National Summit on American Competitiveness, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC, September 18, 2007.
- 03 Jun 2013
- News