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2012
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Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Trade; International Relations; Competition; United States

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February 2012 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

State health care reform in Massachusetts has involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain health care coverage which,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Insurance; Massachusetts

August 2010 (Revised May 2012)
Teaching Note

The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for 711410. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Price; Programs; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry

January 2009
Teaching Note

Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for [708502]. View Details

Keywords: Massachusetts

February 2008
Teaching Note

ThedaCare: System Strategy (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

Teaching Note for 708-424. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; United States

November 2007 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Iceland: Small fish in a global pond

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

Describes the economic development of Iceland since 1945, focusing in particular on the years since 2000, when Iceland experienced strong growth and Icelandic companies aggressively internationalized. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Competition; Macroeconomics; Iceland

January 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Teaching Note

Competition & Strategy: Course Structure TN

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

Provides an overview of the Competition & Strategy course, a first course on business strategy, as taught at Harvard Business School during the summer of 1999. Describes the role of the course in the overall MBA curriculum, the superstructure of the course, and the... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Education Industry

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

approach to resolving tough questions, such as whether or not to umbrella brand, how to determine the right number of brands, and the role of the brand manager in the 21st century. Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work, View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2009
News

IXP 2009

that IXPs will be held in Latin America, China, India, the Middle East, Africa, Vietnam, New Orleans, Silicon Valley, and Boston. (IXP regions are determined in part by student interest.) Just back from the India IXP (postponed until... View Details

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

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

"I feel the way Darwin must have felt when he came across the Galï¡pagos Islands." An innovative collaboration between Kaplan and University Professor Michael Porter is starting to change this state of... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Sep 2015
News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

sustainable economy.” To date, Goldstein has made eight trips to Rwanda with his wife, Kaia Miller Goldstein, an economic development consultant who serves on Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council with HBS Professor Michael Porter, a... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

In Brief

honors. More Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards HBS professors Michael Porter and Rosabeth Moss Kanter have won the 2011 McKinsey Awards for best articles published in the Harvard Business Review last year.... View Details

Keywords: meta; contests; awards

1996
Chapter

Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate

By: Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

Keywords: Competition

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February 2017 (Revised December 2017)
Case

Precision Agriculture at Deere & Company

By: Rajiv Lal, Michael E. Porter and Alexandra Houghtalin

October 1982
Case

Fiber-Optics Industry (C)

By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry

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March 1982 (Revised June 1986)
Background Note

Note on Diversification as a Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Malcolm S. Salter

Presents a discussion of corporate diversification. Covers historical background, the concept of strategy for a diversified company, and concepts of value creation. View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Strategy; Value Creation