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  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to wield it without unhappy consequences. Sound like a tough job? It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 20 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

released On Competition, Porter collects his most influential articles from HBR, and adds new work on health care, philanthropy, social responsibility, and leadership. This excerpt, coauthored with Harvard Business School professors Jay... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

CEO Compensation Troubles

higher pay, putting even greater pressure on compensation committees. — Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at... View Details
Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2005
  • Case

Michael Ovitz and The Walt Disney Company (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
Faced with the need to hire a new president, The Walt Disney Co. pursued Michael Ovitz, a founder of the Creative Artist Agency. Although initially disinterested, Ovitz engaged in negotiations with Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., in the summer of 1995... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Selection and Staffing; Negotiation; Organizational Culture
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  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

cluster-based approach to economic development. When firms locate near each other they can benefit by sharing knowledge, pooling resources, and establishing relationships with local educational institutions that train potential employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • News

Directorship Magazine Awards

  • 11 Mar 2013
  • News

Harvard Survey: U.S. Competitiveness at a Crossroads

  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

unexpected networking opportunities, generating a tight community of German businesspeople in India. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54465 How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Book

On Competition

By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

Democrat-Republican nonsense. They get elected to help people, but it's criminal those people in Washington don't work together, don't speak together." Likewise, Michael E. View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811059-PDF-ENG The Dutch Flower Cluster Michael E. Porter, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo, and Fred van EenennaamHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019

By: Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram and Thomas W. Feeley
Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg’s Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Michael Porter; Jens Deerberg-Wittram; Clifford Marks; Prostate Cancer; Health Care Policy; Value Agenda; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Health Disorders; Insurance; Medical Specialties; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Germany
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Policy Formulation in Vietnam Renovating Industrial Policy Formulation in Vietnam, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2009, pp. 25-43. Porter, Michael E. (1990),... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria. 3. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? Professor Jim Heskett... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1625503 The Determinants of National Competitiveness Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013 Frontiers in Perception Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

staff. Looking forward, what should Modi and Wong do to ensure Phirbol's success? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510020-PDF-ENG Board Leadership at Entergy Corporation Jay W. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

its own right. But it was also crucial for the resumption of European integration in the 1970s. Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Chap. 1 in Boardroom Realities:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace