Michael E. Porter
There are 23 articles for this faculty member.
About Faculty in this Article:
Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School.
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
| Published: | December 21, 2011 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
| Forum: | open for comment; 28 Comments posted |
In a new book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta distills Porter's core concepts and frameworks into a concise guide for business practitioners. In this excerpt, Porter discusses common strategy mistakes.
The Steve Jobs Legacy
| Published: | October 7, 2011 |
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| Feature: | Views on News |
| Forum: | open for comment; 5 Comments posted |
Harvard Business School faculty offer their perspectives on the legendary career of Steve Jobs, who remade several industries even as he changed how we use technology.
Published in 2009
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
| Published: | July 13, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Op-Ed |
With deep experience in health insurance reform, HBS faculty describe how improved competition in insurance plans could improve value for patients. Professors Regina E. Herzlinger, Robert Huckman, and Michael E. Porter take the pulse of a debate.
Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism
| Published: | June 16, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
Professor Michael E. Porter leads a discussion on the shortcomings of the capitalist system and ways the business community can better serve broader societal interests.
Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings
| Authors: | Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter |
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| Published: | April 3, 2009 |
| Paper Release Date: | February 2009 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The prevention and treatment of a complex disease such as HIV/AIDS in resource‐poor settings presents enormous challenges. Many of the social and economic factors that make populations living in these settings vulnerable to HIV/AIDS such as poverty, malnutrition, and political instability conspire to create barriers to effective care delivery. Understanding how interventions are related to each other and how local socioeconomic factors influence them is critical to effective program design. The Care Delivery Value Chain (CDVC) looks at care as an overall system, not as a series of discrete interventions, and describes the activities required to deliver care, illustrating their sequence and organization. Government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and non‐governmental organizations can use the framework to improve HIV/AIDS care delivery.
Published in 2008
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
| Published: | October 20, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In the newly released book On Competition, Professor Michael E. Porter updates his classic articles on the competitive forces that shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria.
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
| Published: | July 16, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Op-Ed |
Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments. According to Harvard University professor and strategy expert Michael E. Porter and coauthors, the best way to truly reduce health care costs is to improve quality.
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
| Published: | April 16, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen was the maestro of Harvard Business School's case method of teaching. Over a career spanning half a century, Christensen made his colleagues better teachers, and his students better leaders. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
Published in 2006
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
| Published: | October 11, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
The United States and Germany continue to top an annual review of the business competitiveness of 121 countries, which is compiled by Professor Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. While India climbed in the rankings, China fell.
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
| Q&A with: | Michael E. Porter |
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| Published: | July 12, 2006 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Michael Porter is considered by many the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. He discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers healthcare. Q&A.
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
| Published: | June 5, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In their new book, HBS Professor Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg argue that the very structure of U.S. healthcare must be redesigned to create value and effective competition throughout the system. An excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results.
Published in 2004
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
| Published: | November 15, 2004 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Executive summary of a presentation on reforming health care made by Professor Michael Porter at a Harvard Business School Publishing Virtual Seminar.
The New CEO's Wrong Message
| Published: | November 1, 2004 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Any new CEO who tries to wield power unilaterally will pay for it, according to Harvard Business School professors Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, and Nitin Nohria. An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.
Michael Porter's Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
| Published: | July 12, 2004 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
The troubled U.S. health care system needs a brave, new kind of competition, say HBS professor Michael E. Porter and the University of Virginia’s Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. A Harvard Business Review excerpt.
Published in 2003
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
| Q&A with: | Michael E. Porter |
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| Published: | January 27, 2003 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
A company's decision on where to locate a facility must take more into account than simple labor costs, says Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter. The new Cluster Mapping Project, developed at Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, reveals detailed patterns of growth, resources, and competitiveness in forty-one regional clusters in the United States.
Published in 2001
Facing the New World Order
| Published: | November 12, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Views on News |
HBS professor Michael Porter, and Jeffrey Sachs, director of Harvard's Center for International Development, discuss the ramifications — especially after September 11—of the WEF's Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002. Is this a time of retrenchment, or opportunity?
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
| Published: | May 29, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
What's located at the crossroads of a sophisticated infrastructure—containing airports, railroads, and ports—and boasts a large potential workforce of consistently underemployed people? A typical inner city, of course. And, says Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter; inner cities are already rewriting the map of competitive advantage.
Strategy and the Internet
| Published: | April 16, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Don't throw the strategy baby out with the Internet bath water. In this Harvard Business Review article, HBS professor Michael E. Porter urges business planners not to lose focus on strategic development and competitive advantage, but to recognize the Internet for what it is: "an enabling technology."
What’s Next for Japan
| Published: | February 20, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Japan, it’s clear, is in the midst of a classic challenge facing nations in a rapidly globalizing world economy: struggling to maintain beneficial social traditions, yet also yearning to be competitive. But can it do both? In a debate led by Harvard University professor Michael E. Porter, experts contemplated the future for Japan.
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
| Q&A with: | Michael E. Porter |
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| Published: | January 8, 2001 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In this, the second part of a two-part interview, HBS professor Michael Porter expands upon the message of his new book, Can Japan Compete?, and on the value of clearly defined strategies and open competition.
