Porter's 5 Forces - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

challenge: keeping Merck’s antibiotic factory running after school closures forced employees with children to stay home. Omar Ishrak, Medtronic CEO, leads a global company of 100,000 people. His greatest challenge currently is ramping... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

this note, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry Analysis, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

they are operating. In this toolkit, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about these marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

in my retirement, or 2) It is money I put in now to pay people who are already retired. I prefer the first view ... ." There was support for forced savings programs. Bill Bittner said, "[Without one] I am afraid a large portion... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

a whole (albeit formless) entity. 3 Previous efforts to develop frameworks for "nonmarket strategy" have explicitly dealt with government influences on business. 4 The nonmarket approach looks at the impact of government separately from the impact of market... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution while protecting family ties. As... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only the beginning of the copier... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

Psychological Perspective," has been accepted for publication in Perspectives on Psychological Science later this year. What they found was that psychological science does indeed help explain how governmental decision making is influenced by such View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, forcing a massive federal bailout. And the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

of the AMP experience." Applicants are generally 3 to 5 years away from achieving the rank of CEO or its equivalent, and they must be endorsed and sponsored by their company's highest levels of management. Every Friday, participants... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill costs 5 cents to manufacture,... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

to play in spite of the pain, reasoning, "I don't want to let my $300 go to waste." And some people even count on their own irrationality and buy season tickets to a play or symphony series, knowing that it will force them to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

much as many people think. I say that culture is a 5 percent factor, not a 50 percent factor. The issues facing families in business are surprisingly similar across cultures. The way you would go about addressing an issue in a family... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

transparency for shareholders and other stakeholders. The primary argument is that, without high standards of personal integrity posed from within, Section 404 will be of limited value. As John Louk put it, "I personally believe that you cannot View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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