Most Popular Books by Michael E. Porter

The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve these cost and quality problems? The reason is that Germany has not set value for patients as the overarching goal, defined as the patient health outcomes achieved per euro expended. This book lays out an action agenda to move Germany to a high value system: care must be reorganized around patients and their medical conditions, providers must compete around the outcomes they achieve, health plans must take an active role in improving subscriber health, and payment must shift to models that reward excellent providers. Also, private insurance must be integrated in the risk-pooling system. These steps are practical and achievable, as numerous examples in the book demonstrate. Moving to a value-based health care system is the only way for Germany to continue to ensure access to excellent health care for everyone.

Become the leader you want to be. Becoming a great leader takes work. This collection from Harvard Business Review offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection (4 Books) includes the popular books HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy, and HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence. This unique compilation offers insights from world-class experts on the topics most important to your success as a leader—how to inspire others and improve team performance, how to galvanize your organization’s strategy development and execution, and the best ways to chart your own path to professional success. The collection includes forty articles selected by HBR’s editors from renowned thought leaders including Michael Porter, Peter Drucker, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, W. Chan Kim, and Renée Mauborgne, as well as the bonus award-winning article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton Christensen. It’s time to transform yourself from a good manager into a great leader. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection will help you do just that—and will become an invaluable addition to your management toolkit. HBR’s 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of ideas and best practices for aspiring and experienced leaders alike. These books offer essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business Review on topics critical to the success of every manager. Each book is packed with advice and inspiration from leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Kotter, Michael Porter, Daniel Goleman, Theodore Levitt, and Rita Gunther McGrath.

With the nations of the world becoming more interdependent, it is imperative to take international influences into account in understanding the organization of industry within a country. This book extends the structure/conduct/performance framework of analysis to present a fully specified simultaneous equation model of an open economy--Canada. By estimating a system of equations of all the major variables, the authors can identify which variables are dependent and which are independent. They are thus able to assess the relative importance of such factors as seller concentration, import competition, retailing structure, advertising expenditure, research and development spending, and technical and allocative efficiency in shaping the organization of industry in Canada. In addition, using both industry-level and firm-level data, the authors develop methods for assessing the effect of structural variables on diversification strategies and the consequences for market performance. They also study the effects of such variables on firms'' access to capital markets. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for government policy.

The World Economic Forum continues its tradition of excellence with the 26th edition of the annual Global Competitiveness Report featuring the latest national statistics and results of the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perception of over 10,000 business leaders. The report provides the most comprehensive assessment of 117 developed and emerging economies. Produced in collaboration with a distinguished group of international scholars and a global network of over 100 leading national research institutes and business organizations, the report presents individual detailed country profiles highlighting the competitive strengths and weaknesses of each economy as well as an extensive section of data tables containing country rankings for over 160 indicators. The report also showcases the latest thinking and research on issues of immediate relevance for business leaders and policy-makers. The forthcoming Report is scheduled to include thought-provoking papers by Jagdish Bhagwati, Nicholas Eberstadt, Michael E. Porter, Kenneth Rogoff, Beatrice Weder and John Williamson.

Why did the New Zealand economy underperform for three years before 1990? Why did the standard of living fall? This book seeks to answer these questions. Contents: 1. Setting the context 2. Determinants of national competitive advantage 3. New Zealand''s position in international competition 4. Industry studies 5. The determinants of national advantage in New Zealand 6. The misaligned New Zealand system 7. Implications for New Zealand.

The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market share instability rather than by employing structural variables such as seller concentration. We find robust evidence that domestic competition has a positive and significant relationship with trade performance measured by world export share, and this effect is particularly strong when R&D intensity reveals opportunities for improvement and innovation. These findings support the view that local competition, not monopoly or tacit or explicit collusion, pressures dynamic improvement that leads to international competitiveness.

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development--with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We''ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization''s strategy development and execution. HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: Distinguish your company from rivals Clarify what your company will and won''t do Craft a vision for an uncertain future Create blue oceans of uncontested market space Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy Capture your strategy in a memorable phrase Make priorities explicit Allocate resources early Clarify decision rights for faster decision making This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company''s Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."

Seven bestselling Harvard Business Review collections—in one convenient set. You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change, leadership, strategy, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization''s performance. The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Boxed Set includes seven bestselling collections: HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Leadership (ways you can transform yourself from a good manager into an extraordinary leader); HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (the path to your own professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror and what you see there—your greatest strengths and deepest values—are the foundations you must build on); HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Strategy (will help galvanize your organization''s strategy development and execution); HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Change (70% of all change initiatives fail, but the odds turn in your company''s favor once you understand that change is a multi-stage process—not an event—and that persuasion is key to establishing a sense of urgency, winning support, and silencing naysayers); HBR''s 10 Must Reads on Managing People (will help you determine what really motivates people, how to deal with problem employees, and how to build an effective team); HBR''s 10 Must Reads: The Essentials (which brings together the best thinking from management’s most influential experts); and HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (the trait that is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership). HBR''s 10 Must Reads Boxed Set with Bonus Emotional Intelligence also makes a smart gift for your team, colleagues, or clients. The ebook set is available in PDF, ePub and mobi formats.

2019''s best reads, all in one place. Get five years of the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in one library set. Every year, HBR editors examine the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past twelve months to select the articles that have provoked the most conversation, the most inspiration, and the most change. From how companies can proactively evolve their business models to stay ahead of the digital revolution to understanding why your strategy execution isn''t working--and how to fix it--the articles in these volumes will help you manage your daily challenges and meet the changing competitive landscape head-on. Books in the HBR 10 Must Reads series offer essential reading from Harvard Business Review on topics critical to the success of every manager. Each book is packed with advice and inspiration from leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Michael Porter, Herminia Ibarra, Daniel Goleman, Marcus Buckingham, Roger Martin, Adam Grant, Thomas Davenport, and Patty McCord. Company examples range from Unilever, Deloitte, and DHL to Facebook, Netflix, Google, and Uber. 5 Years of Must Reads: 2019 Edition brings the most current and important business conversations of the past few years to your fingertips.

Seit 30 Jahren ist Michael E. Porters Buch zur Wettbewerbsstrategie der Klassiker zum Thema und Pflichtlektüre für Führungskräfte. Schritt für Schritt entwickelt der Autor alle Instrumente, die ein Manager für die Branchenanalyse benötigt. Seine Ausführungen erklären die grundlegenden Kräfte des brancheninternen Wettbewerbs. Fundiert und praxisnah stellt er konkrete Methoden zur Analyse von Branchen vor. Diese 12. Auflage ist vollständig durchgesehen, aktualisiert und erweitert.

Das deutsche Gesundheitssystem ist auf Kollisionskurs mit der ökonomischen Realität. Die Kosten sind hoch und steigen weiter, und Qualitätsprobleme bei den Leistungserbringern werden immer offensichtlicher. Jahrzehnte von Reformen haben diesen besorgniserregenden Trend kaum geändert. Warum hat es Deutschland nicht geschafft, die Kosten- und Qualitätsprobleme zu lösen? Das heutige System ist dominiert von Partikularinteressen. Nicht Kostenkontrolle, sondern die Steigerung des Patientennutzens – definiert als Behandlungsergebnis pro ausgegebenem Euro – ist das Ziel, das alle Akteure vereinigen kann. Dazu muss man nicht auf die nächste Gesundheitsreform warten. Massive Verbesserungen lassen sich schon heute zum Vorteil aller verwirklichen. In den zwölf Empfehlungen des Buches geht es darum, wie sich Leistungserbringer um Krankheitsbilder organisieren, wie Wettbewerb um messbare Ergebnisqualität die Norm wird, wie Krankenkassen eine aktivere Rolle in der Gesundheit ihrer Versicherten einnehmen und wie das Vergütungssystem zukünftig Exzellenz in der Versorgung einzelner Krankheitsbilder belohnen sollte. Darüber hinaus zeigen die Autoren, warum die Einbindung der Privaten Krankenversicherung in den Risikostrukturausgleich der Gesetzlichen Krankenkassen unausweichlich ist. Wenn der Patientennutzen in den Mittelpunkt gestellt wird, entstehen Chancen für alle.