Professor Michael Porter - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

minutes—during the pandemic’s early weeks. Employees also participated in more meetings, though for less time than they did before COVID-19 sent many workers home. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or interacting,” says Raffaella... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
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Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg

The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details

Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland

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October 2013
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The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee

In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Value; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

People People Faculty Malcolm P. Baker Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He was... View Details

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

Besharov, Marya L., Wendy K. Smith, and Michael Tushman Abstract— It’s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals—making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Mar 2007
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Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

middle," as Professor Michael Porter terms it. That is, China and India are taking all the businesses (manufacturing and services) on the low end (as their GDPs/capita and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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By: Michael W. Toffel

Professor Toffel teaches the required first-year MBA course Technology and Operations Management (TOM).

He also coordinates and teaches the Doctoral Seminar in Technology and Operations Management to help... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Government Legislation; Non-Governmental Organizations; Multinational Firms and Management

22 Nov 2022
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When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

being, the more they wanted to work with them.” Key to these perceptions, the researchers found, was language. Using a language-processing algorithm designed by Imperial College Business School Assistant Professor View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Consolidation and the Institutional Contingency of Professional Counter-Mobilization in US Banking Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury Periodical:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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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

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Indoor Spaces | About

Room The Donaldson Room, located within the Emeriti Faculty Center of Cumnock Hall, was named to honor the service of Professor Gordon Donaldson. Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg... View Details

26 Jun 2013
News

The Power of a ‘Project Beard’ and Other Office Rituals

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

LISH senior research scientist Michael Menietti; Katherine C. Kellogg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Luca Vendraminelli, who is affiliated with LISH and a post-doctoral fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

skills including clarifying objectives, questioning and listening, and board work 1976 Use of Cases in Management Education by E. Raymond Corey Directed toward students; valuable for professors as well. Briefly describes the process of... View Details

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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

2014); Laura Mackay (MBA 2014); By: Julia Hanna Play Public Programs Encourage Entrepreneurship Gareth Olds 26 Feb 2025 Recruiting Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health Sarah Guezmir MD / MBA Health Care Perspectives View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

research. Mr. Burgstone also serves as Faculty Chair and Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a... View Details

29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

is in process. Teaming, she says, is essential to organizational learning. In her new book Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership, Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

24 Feb 2023
Blog Post

My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

studies with vigor and enthusiasm in the dorm common areas; receiving the infamous “HBS cold call” from Professor Anita Elberse, or worse, from Lebron James, Beyoncé, LL Cool J, or the many other case protagonists she likes to “bring to... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Centers The globalization of business has long encouraged Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty to research international business practices and the effects of globalization. Seminal contributions - Christopher Bartlett on managing across borders , View Details

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