by Michael E. Porter - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition

For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new... View Details

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition,” says Sadun, who provides advice for avoiding communication shutdowns. Sadun, the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, conducted... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

sustained growth. 3. Reversing the logic: A different way of looking at exports and competitiveness The competitiveness framework developed by Porter (1990, 1998) suggests that there is an alternative way to... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organization? by Ethan Bernstein. What Is Disruptive Innovation? By Clayton Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald. The Capitalist’s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

such as increasing student loans, to not only comply but also gain profitable business in the process. Michael Porter and others have described a similar process occurring with respect to environmental... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

06 Mar 2012
News

HBS Professors Discuss US Outlook in NYC

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Business; and Monica Higgins, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders across an Industry; and Michael Porter coauthored Redefining Health Care. By virtually any standard, it's an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2013
News

The Surprising Reasons Why America Lost Its Ability To Compete

20 May 2019
News

Why Do We Let Political Parties Act Like Monopolies?

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Preetham commented. Omer E. put it this way: "What this suggests is nothing more than the emergence of changing political tides." In fact, in M. F. Procaccini's words, "the whole 'mixed economy' models of the 20th Century... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

2017
Working Paper

Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics

Citation

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Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry

2011
Chapter

Clusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

While clusters have been known to exist at least since the days of Marshall, Michael Porter's work, first in The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Porter, 1990) and then in On Competition (originally published in 1998; updated edition in Porter, 2008), has undoubtedly... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Framework; Policy; Industry Clusters; Practice; Competitive Advantage

Citation

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

challenge. The Falks had to decide whether a Groupon deal worked well for them, and if so, how to manage Groupon redemptions by their customers in a way that made financial sense. Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2009
News

Healing America's Healthcare

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

middle," as Professor Michael Porter terms it. That is, China and India are taking all the businesses (manufacturing and services) on the low end (as their GDPs/capita and wages are lower) while they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

A large amusement park. A long line at an airport. A children's summer camp in Italy. What do these places have in common? Surprisingly, all are settings for serious research by Harvard Business School faculty. There's a sea change afoot... View Details