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About the
Author:
Michael E. Porter
is the Bishop William Lawrence University
Professor, based at Harvard Business School. A
University professorship is the highest
professional recognition that can be given to a
Harvard faculty member. Professor Porter is the
fourth faculty member in Harvard Business School
history to earn this distinction, and is one of
about 15 current University Professors at Harvard.
Professor Porter
is a leading authority on competitive strategy and
the competitiveness and economic development of
nations, states, and regions. He received a B.S.E.
with high honors in aerospace and mechanical
engineering from Princeton University in 1969,
where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau
Beta Pi. He received an M.B.A. with high
distinction in 1971 from the Harvard Business
School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar,
and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard
University in 1973.
Professor
Porter's ideas on strategy have now become the
foundation for one of the required courses at the
Harvard Business School. Professor Porter leads
the School's programs for chief executive officers
of billion dollar and larger corporations and
created a University-wide course on the
microeconomics of economic development that is
also taught simultaneously in other countries.
Professor Porter also speaks widely on competitive
strategy and international competitiveness to
business and government audiences throughout the
world. In 2001, Harvard Business School and
Harvard University jointly created the Institute
for Strategy and Competitiveness, led by Professor
Porter, to further his work.
Professor Porter
is the author of 16 books and over 85 articles.
His book, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for
Analyzing Industries and Competitors, published in
1980, is in its 58th printing and has been
translated into seventeen languages. His second
major strategy book, Competitive Advantage:
Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, was
published in 1985 and is in its 34th printing. His
book On Competition (1998) includes eleven
articles from the Harvard Business Review as well
as two entirely new articles: 'Clusters and
Competition' and 'Competing Across Locations'. His
Harvard Business Review article 'What is
Strategy?' is the foundation for a new strategy
book due to be completed early next year. His
article 'Strategy and the Internet' (2001) won for
Professor Porter an unprecedented third
first-place McKinsey Award as the best Harvard
Business Reviewarticle of the year.
Professor
Porter's 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of
Nations, motivated by his appointment by President
Ronald Regan in 1983 to the President's Commission
on Industrial Competitiveness, launched his second
major body of work on competitiveness and economic
development. The book developed a new theory of
how nations, states, and regions compete and their
sources of economic prosperity. This began an
extensive body of research on the influence of
location on competition, with a special focus on
the role of geographically concentrated clusters
of related firms, suppliers, service providers,
and institutions.
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