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The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness is a nonprofit research, education, and policy organization founded by Michael Porter and based at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance scholarship; develop practical, research-based frameworks; and educate and advise leaders and policymakers.

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Hospital-based ACOs Face Challenges in Tracking Performance Indicators

Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements initially hoped for, we sought to better understand the underlying reasons for their limited success.

HealthManagement.org

Value-based healthcare is penetrating rapidly across many countries, and in peer-reviewed medical literature. National health systems are embracing value-based healthcare as their strategic framework.

Why Politics Is Failing America

Beware the political–industrial complex. They rig the game for their benefit. The public interest is the loser. Here’s how to fix it.
See also Why It’s Time to Break Up America’s Most Powerful Duopoly & Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America

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Recent & Upcoming Events

August 2018 Value Measurement for Health Care

Bringing together senior clinical and financial leaders from health care organizations around the world, this program examines how to transform health care delivery by moving toward better outcome and cost measurement. This Executive Education program focuses on the role of value measurement as part of a strategic agenda to transform quality and cost in health care.

2018 Shared Value Leadership Summit

At the 2018 Shared Value Leadership Summit we’re diving deep into the world’s greatest opportunities—access to medicine, clean energy, smart technologies and workforce opportunities—with the women and men who are taking shared value strategy from the board room to shared value reality on the ground.

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ICIC boosts economic life in inner cities

Boston Herald, July 10, 2018

Diagnosing the thriving Swamp that's failing America

Axios, February 3, 2018

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U.S. Cluster Mapping Portal

"Mapping a nation of regional clusters" Newly launched in September 2014

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Essential Reading

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 countless incremental fixes—attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better “consumers,” implementing electronic medical records—but none have had much impact. It’s time for a fundamentally new strategy.

The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care

Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter's frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business may know Porter's name, many managers misunderstand and misuse his concepts. Understanding Michael Porter sets the record straight, providing a concise, accessible summary of Porter's revolutionary thinking.

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