Michael Porter - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

and not those of third parties. Michael Porter points out that when social activities lack a strategic dimension, Milton Friedman's well-known criticism that philanthropy has no place in business, suddenly... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

18 Dec 2019
News

A Recovery Squandered

31 May 2014
News

Business School, Disrupted

Keywords: HBX; Educational Services

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

Literature Authors:Andrew King and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Chap. 4 in Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, edited by Magali Delmas and Oran Young, 98-115. Cambridge University Press, 2009 Abstract Scholars of management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS professor View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments, which rely on the business to... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

pickleball’s gold-rush moment, Brian McCarthy is looking to build a business that can keep its bounce In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim spent his formative years in the US. As his novel ‘Offerings’ heads for the big screen, Asia’s... View Details