Michael Porter - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

politically sensitive? If so, will the country continue to need my participation in the project? What Are The Best Ways To Leverage Local Resources? Porter's Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy Professor Michael View Details

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. He discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

entrepreneurs and business experts can predict their subsequent commercialization. How Should We Pay for Health Care? (536) Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan argue that reimbursement for medical... View Details

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

challenges. In The Politics Industry, business leader and path-breaking political innovator Katherine Gehl and world-renowned business strategist Michael Porter take a radical new approach. Applying the... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

another. With China on the rise, Shanghai could turn out to be a formidable rival. HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an expert on competitive strategy, doffed his jacket to deliver an animated lecture on "The Competitive Challenges in... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

balance between nations on trade and tariff issues, as well as a more globally competitive US corporate tax rate. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, cochairs of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Oct 2015
News

How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

02 Jul 2018
News

For the first time ever, a study finds out what CEOs actually do

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

described by Michael Porter is being fragmented by organizations; value addition ... is taking place in numerous forms ..." Their comments reflected the general assumptions among respondents that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Jun 2014
News

The Art of Effecting Change

Evans runs the operation according to the rigors of an investment fund. And that's where her HBS education really comes in. "It was the training in how to think about your approach to opportunities," Evans says, recalling a business strategy class with Professor View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

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

18 Feb 2020
News

Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

2018
Working Paper

Towards a New Approach for Upgrading Europe's Competitiveness

By: Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter

The traumatic experience of the European sovereign debt crisis, followed by the outcome of the British referendum on leaving the European Union, has sent shockwaves through Europe. For the first time since the signing of the Treaties of Rome six decades ago, the very... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Economy; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Europe; European Union

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March 26, 2015
Article

A Wake-Up Call for Tomorrow's Top 1 Percent: Rebuild America's Middle Class

By: Jan Rivkin and Michael E. Porter

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January 2017
Teaching Note

Orkestra – Basque Institute of Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels

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What Washington Must Do Now

By: Jan Rivkin and Michael E. Porter

Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; United States

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2014
Report

An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin

In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economy; Financial Crisis; United States

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