by Michael Raynor - Publications - Faculty & Research

Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Regional Strategy; Industry Clusters; Economics; Minneapolis; United States

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10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami

The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau.... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

2013
Government Testimony

American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

By: Michael E. Porter

The Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access held a hearing titled, "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter spoke at the hearing,... View Details

Keywords: Economic Development; Competitiveness; United States

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23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

authors The I's Have It From Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations By Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Organizational conversation, in our use of the term, applies to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps ignored View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

30 Nov 2019
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Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet

28 Feb 2020
News

When It’s This Easy at the Top, It’s Harder for Everyone Else

October 2012
Supplement

Olympus (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante

This case outlines Michael Woodford's awards and honors, after having been fired from Olympus in October 2011. It discusses the repercussions following an investigation into the fraud and the report that was released thereafter. It also discusses the lawsuit that... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Health Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan

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March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
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Hundred-Year War, A: Coke vs. Pepsi, 1890s-1990s

By: Chiaki Moriguchi and David Lane

Through their competitive battle, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have created a stable and highly profitable duopoly in the U.S. soft drink industry. As the domestic industry matured and the cola wars moved to international markets, Coke and Pepsi tried to redesign their... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Food and Beverage Industry

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