• 06 Dec 2010
• Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host countries to build and run major infrastructure... View Details

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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the best article in Harvard Business Review , “From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy” 1979 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review , “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” See all of Michael View Details

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

• 01 Dec 2002
• News

Porter Course Goes Abroad

Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo (MBA '85), among others. A two-day workshop to provide training for faculty at partner universities in teaching the course will be held at Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness on the... View Details

• 01 Jun 2013
• News

Education Innovation

CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000)... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

• 12 Oct 1999
• Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known as substitutes in View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

• 13 Jan 2009
• First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 19 Mar 2007
• Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

Business School professor Richard H. K. Vietor, How Countries Compete: Strategy, Structure, and Government in the Global Economy. Vietor undertakes a country-by-country examination of the unique social, cultural, political, and historical View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

• 01 Sep 2018
• News

After the Fall

have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

• 14 Mar 2016
• Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

There’s something curious about the labor force in the United States. Identical jobs and industries have become unionized in some states while remaining nonunionized in others. Unionization levels vary greatly from state to state. As of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

most enduring contributions.” — Peter M Senge Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management “Professor Porter has been, and still is, the most influential global thinker on Strategy. His contributions are numerous and as relevant today as when he first developed them. The... View Details

• 01 Aug 2002
• News

Class Day & Commencement

Skies were overcast on the afternoon of June 5 but that didn't faze this year's 911 graduating MBAs who, along with their families and friends, gathered on Baker Lawn to celebrate Class Day 2002. High spirits remained undampened as... View Details

• 01 Jun 2014
• News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

Fariborz Ghadar (MBA 1972, DBA 1976) could have walked away from the American dream at any point. It could have been the moment his fraternity brothers at MIT decided they couldn't pronounce his name and called him "Bob." It could have been when he was View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

• 30 Apr 2018
• Blog Post

Reflecting on AASU50: Advancing African American Business Leadership

received the Master of Business Administration degree in 1915. Between 1915 and 1968, there were a total 42 black graduates of HBS with many class years having no black graduates at all. The representation of African Americans at HBS took a major turn in the spring of... View Details

• 16 Aug 2010
• Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

they are operating. In this toolkit, we present three methods for collecting and analyzing information about these marketing environments firms face: Five C's Analysis, Porter's Five Forces Industry... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

• 01 Jun 2014
• News

Roads to Recovery

radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government