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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 awarded
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. In 2001,
Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, to further Professor Porter’s
work. continued
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Justin Bachmann, M.D. is a Cardiology fellow at the
University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX and
Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. A
cardiovascular epidemiologist with interests in health economics, Dr.
Bachmann is currently investigating the effect of physical fitness on
healthcare utilization and Medicare charges at the Cooper Clinic.
Dr. Bachmann is Chair of the American Medical
Association Resident and Fellow Section, where he represents over 30,000
residents and fellows around the nation with regards to issues relating
to graduate medical education. In 2010 he chaired the AMA-RFS
Legislative Advocacy Committee, where he directed resident and fellow
advocacy efforts concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act. He is also involved in the American Heart Association, where he
lobbied to remove trans fats from schools and worked on initiatives to
address health disparities.
Dr. Bachmann serves as Chair of the American
College of Cardiology’s Fellow-in-Training Committee and holds an
appointment to the ACC’s Board of Governors, where he represents over
3500 Cardiology fellows nationally to the ACC leadership. Dr. Bachmann
has longstanding interests in the use of clinical registries to improve
healthcare quality, and has worked with the Institute of Strategy and
Competitiveness in highlighting the importance of effective outcomes
measurement to the medical community.
Dr. Bachmann is received his B.A. in Biology and
Political Science magna cum laude from Washington University in St.
Louis, where he was a Danforth Scholar. He received his M.D. from the
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he received the Edward
J. McGavock Scholarship and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. He is a
native of Aurora, Missouri.
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Kristen Bettencourt is the Health Care Program
Manager at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Before
joining the health care team at the Institute, Kristen worked in Harvard
development, and additionally has over eight years of experience working
in mental health, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS care. Kristen received
her B.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of New Hampshire and is
currently an M.B.A. candidate at the Simmons School of Management.
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Rich Bryden is Director of Information Products at Harvard’s Institute
for Strategy and Competitiveness where his work with Michael Porter
centers on the continuing development of the Cluster Mapping Project as
well as the Institute’s broader agenda of disseminating research and
applied economic analysis in regional competitiveness to both scholars
and practitioners on a global basis. Rich led the launch of the
clustermapping.us website in
October 2011 as a component of the new EDA-sponsored extension of the
Institute’s U.S. cluster work. Rich has been coauthor on a range of
articles including research publications “Competitiveness
in U.S. Rural Regions: Learning and Research Agenda,” analytical
reports “Executive
Opinion Survey: Capturing the Voice of the Business Community,” and
regional studies “Competitiveness
at the Crossroads: Choosing the Future Direction of the Russian Economy.”
Rich joined the Institute in 2002. Prior to
joining the Institute, Rich worked for eight years in product management
and marketing roles for ventures in the field of on-line publishing. He
earned an M.B.A. with highest honors from the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business in 2001 and also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh
University.
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Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo
Principal
Associate
Phone:
617 496 3429 Fax: 617 384 7268
email: jramirez hbs edu
Dr Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo is a member of the
faculty of the Harvard Business School working at the Institute for
Strategy and Competitiveness. Dr. Ramirez-Vallejo has been a
Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School,
Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies and Visiting Scholar at the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He worked previously at the
Colombian Federation of Coffee Growers (FEDERACAFE) as director of
the competitiveness program. He was CEO of the National Development
Bank in Colombia, FINDETER; Director General of the Irrigation and
Land Improvement Institute and Director of Agricultural Planning of
the country. He also worked as an economist for the Inter-American
Bank. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of
Minnesota and degrees in Engineering from Colorado State University
and Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria. He is an Associate Professor
at the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia,
and founder and former director of the Center for Strategy and
Competitiveness at the University of los Andes in Colombia.
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Ms. Zyontz was most recently a Senior Research
Associate for the Searle Civil Justice Institute at George Mason
University School of Law. There she managed several policy focused,
large-scale empirical projects on a range of topics related to patents,
arbitration, and consumer protection. Previously she worked for the
Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern
University School of Law. She also spent seven years working in
intellectual property litigation and valuation consulting for
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and Navigant Consulting, Inc. Ms. Zyontz
received a M.S. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University and graduated Phi Beta
Kappa from the College of William & Mary in Virginia with a B.A. in
economics and a minor in business marketing.
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