A few years ago, while in Washington, D.C., I was invited to a Q&A with Michael Porter to speak in a small group setting. I jumped at the idea to meet one of the most cited scholars in business and ...

Competitive advantage means positioning your company ahead of other companies in order to achieve superiority in quality, low cost, value or innovation. Regardless of what it means to a company, it ...

The current business world is becoming increasingly competitive, with industries being flooded by businesses offering similar ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but one of the most useful things many executives can learn about their company’s competitive advantage is that they don’t have one — and there’s nothing wrong with ...

Porter’s Five Forces model serves as a framework for strategic management. It has served as the North Star of the business industry since Michael E. Porter introduced it in a 1979 issue of the Harvard ...

How to assess whether it can hold up against competitors, shifting market dynamics, and unexpected events. While many teams and organizations engage in scenario planning, most don’t go far enough.

Hint: remember to include your non-customers in your market research. Blue ocean strategy is a landmark business idea – first introduced in 2004 in an HBR article. But its co-creator Renée Mauborgne, ...