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  • 2001
  • Other Unpublished Work

Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter
Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 10 Oct 2003
  • Other Presentation

Massachusetts Regional Competitiveness Councils: Survey Results for Berkshire, Pioneer Valley, and Central Regions

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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  • 11 Jun 2008
  • Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 22 Nov 2002
  • Other Presentation

Competitiveness and the Role of Regions

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 10 Oct 2003
  • Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness in the Pioneer Valley

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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  • July–August 2012
  • Article

The Growth Opportunity That Lies Next Door

By: G. Jones
This article uses the case of Natura, the largest Brazilian beauty company and one of the world's top twenty beauty companies, to explore how the logic of globalization is changing for corporations from emerging countries as growth opportunities in those countries... View Details
Keywords: Brazil; Marketing; Green Marketing; Environment; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Latin America; Europe
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  • August 2002 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Italy: A New Commitment to Growth

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
Examines Italy's efforts to comply with the Maastricht Treaty and become integrated with Europe in the European Union. By 2002, Italy has achieved macroeconomic stability, but slow growth threatens the country's future competitiveness. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Alliances; Italy; European Union
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  • March 2008 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

KIPP 2007: Implementing a Smart Growth Strategy

By: Stacey M. Childress and Maura Lynn Marino
After opening 60 schools in 8 years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated entity led by a principal who was selected and trained by the... View Details
Keywords: Education; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States
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  • Article

Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details
Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe
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  • October 2024 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Lanco Medical Group: Fostering Happiness for Growth

By: Susanna Gallani, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Katherine Sonnefeldt
This case describes how Lanco Medical Group, a fast-growing pharmaceutical distributor serving Latin America, approached the design of their employee benefits and incentives program. After learning about gaps between what leadership believed motivated employees and... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth Management; Motivation and Incentives; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Latin America
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  • 3 Apr 2002
  • Other Presentation

Regional Foundations of Competitiveness Issues for Wales

By: Michael E. Porter
Presentation on the Future Competitiveness of Wales: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Video Link). View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Wales
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  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

A Matter Of Scale One key issue the case examines is "how to implement the rollout of a fast-food chain involving so many stores across such a vast—and regionally different—country," says Bell, who teaches the case in the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
  • February 2007 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Punjab and Kerala: Regional Development in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer
Between 2000 and 2004, India's economy grew by 6.35%. Focuses on the states of Punjab and Kerala, which emphasized sharply different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Capital; Investment; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Kerala; Punjab
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  • 2009
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2009: Boosting the Top of Europe

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2009 State of the Region Report, the sixth in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, provides a perspective on the radical change in the economic climate of the Region over the last year. The Report puts... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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  • 30 Sep 2003
  • Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness in the Cape & Islands

By: Michael E. Porter
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development
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  • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
  • Case

Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
The case opens in 2020 as Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Property Finder, Dubai’s leading online real estate classifieds portal, contemplates the company’s five-year growth strategy.
Since its founding in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Property... View Details
Keywords: General Business; Real Estate; Entrepreneurship; Property; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Online Technology; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Turkey
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  • 18 Jul 2008
  • Other Presentation

Regional Competitiveness: Creating an East African Economic Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter
Competitiveness presentation delivered during the East African Business Summit in Kampala, Uganda. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; Uganda
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  • August 2006 (Revised September 2008)
  • Case

Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
After nearly 100 years as a mid-size regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; San Francisco
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  • 2010
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2010: The Top of Europe Recovering—Regional Lessons from a Global Crisis

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 State of the Region Report, the seventh in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, takes the Region's economic temperature in the first year after the full onslaught of the global crisis. The focus of... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Policy; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries
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