Publications

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

Educators

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

17 Sep 2015
News

Being an entrepreneur: a right only for America’s well-connected?

17 Dec 2014
News

Getting schooled

03 Oct 2018
News

A Space “to Convene, to Learn, and to Celebrate”

15 Sep 2016
News

Politics is crippling the US economy, Harvard study says

15 Sep 2016
News

Why the U.S. economy lags: It's the politics, stupid

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details

October 1982
Supplement

Fiber-Optics Industry (E)

By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells

Keywords: Communications Industry; Electronics Industry

October 1982
Supplement

Fiber-Optics Industry (D)

By: Michael E. Porter and John R. Wells

Keywords: Communications Industry; Electronics Industry

March 1980 (Revised February 1987)
Supplement

Sweco, Inc. (A1)

By: Michael E. Porter and George S. Yip

Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details

February 2021
Article

Rethinking the Role of the EU in European Competitiveness

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

The aim of this conceptual paper is to delineate the scope and give directives towards higher levels of competitiveness and prosperity for EU members. The EU integration history and challenges are retraced and the EU’s current competitiveness context is presented. In a... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Public Policy; Competitive Advantage; Government Administration; European Union

Read Now

October 2013
Teaching Note

Remaking Singapore

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

Keywords: Competitiveness; Economic Development; Strategy; Singapore

March 2012
Article

Choosing the United States

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

The U.S. is not winning its appropriate share of location decisions, even those involving the high-value-adding activities that the country has long been able to attract. In part, this is because U.S. policy makers are not addressing weaknesses in the national business... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; United States

February 2009
Teaching Note

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for 709458. View Details

Keywords: Health; Employees; Cost; Policy; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Contracts; Programs; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; United States

November 2012 (Revised February 2009)
Teaching Note

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H Jain

Teaching Note for [708487]. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Industry; Texas

2009
Chapter

Clusters and Industrial Districts - Common Roots, Different Perspectives

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

Keywords: Industry Clusters; Local Range; Perspective

November 2007 (Revised January 2010)
Case

ThedaCare: System Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of numerous community hospitals into hospital systems. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare stood out among community hospital systems in its pursuit of service... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Wisconsin

Educators

November 2007 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Indonesia: Attracting Foreign Investment

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

Describes the economic development of Indonesia from independence after World War II to 2006 and the post-Suharto period. The coverage of the post-Suharto period provides evidence of how political and economic conditions are intertwined after a change in the political... View Details

Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia

Educators