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Michael Porter

Brookline, United States

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6532

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BIOGRAPHY

Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. He is one of the most acknowledged authorities on company strategy as well as nations and regions competitiveness.

Michael Porter has worked with many governments, corporations and academic circles all around the world. He chairs Harvard Business School's program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations.

He described Porter’s Five Forces model in his first Harvard Business Review article “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” in 1979, and it started a revolution in the strategy field. He also comes back on this model in his influential book “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors”.

Michael Porter continues his ongoing research in on the following areas:

• The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

• Clusters and Competition

• National Innovative Capacity and the Ideas Production Function

• Sustainable Inner-City Economic Development

• Environmental Policy and Competitiveness

• Capital Markets, Investment, and Competition

• Competitive Strategy