by Michael E. Porter - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

tantalizing glimpses of HBS, the 1980s Wall Street market rally, temporary insanity, and true love. The Cathedral Builder: A Biography of J. Irwin Miller by Charles E. Miller Rentschler (MBA 1964)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

work, in particular the relationship between investors and management. It was that dynamic that propelled him to HBS three years later. “HBS kicked my butt,” he recalls, recalling his experiences with professors Michael Porter, Jeffry... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

(MBA ’69), a founding partner of Apax Partners and a social-venture entrepreneur, and HBS senior lecturer Thierry Breton, former finance minister of France. With University Professor Michael Porter... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Mar 2019
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Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

wicked problem.” Launched in 2017 and funded by Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Bloomberg Philanthropies, the initiative aims to inspire and strengthen city leaders by giving... View Details

Keywords: homelessness

01 Dec 2001
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Faculty News

Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn... View Details

Keywords: reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

printed paper, rather than reimagining an entirely new online experience for readers. As faculty chair of HBX, the School's new online learning platform, Anand says the intent from the start was to avoid following in the footsteps of those early newspaper efforts View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

incredible work that Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl have done in these last few years which lay out what many of us have already known, which is business is one of, if not the most vocal and influential... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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New Releases

The Intellectual Venture Capitalist(Harvard Business School Press) In the ninety-year history of Harvard Business School, John McArthur's fifteen-year tenure as Dean is exceeded only by Wallace B. Donham's 23 years at the HBS helm. When... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of industry expertise.... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Scudder and his daughter Roseanne to struggle for the dignity of all people. Doggett Determination: Believing in Yourself to Create Success in Life and Business by Ron E. Doggett (AMP 81, 1979) and Karen... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

years after Grossman’s article, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter coauthored a groundbreaking November–December 1999 article titled “Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value.” The... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket

propositions to a new customer base. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Stay with the current target market and own it—don’t be distracted by other rabbits to chase. —Peter Anderson (MBA 1981) According to the California Department of Education,... View Details

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that the student body’s social... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, concluded the four-day program with a fast-paced lecture on his current research in the area of strategy. "I found particularly... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

Michael Roberts, who is the primary liaison between HBS and the CRC. Roberts, an experienced teacher and case writer who is executive director of entrepreneurial studies at the School, will spend about one week a month at the Center. The... View Details