Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.