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Michael E. Porter  -  Biography 
Institute Director
Phone: 617 495 6153   Fax: 617 547 8543
email: mporter hbs edu

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

 

 

Justin Bachmann
Health Care Researcher

Phone: 617 495 6041   Fax: 617 547-8543 
email: jbachmann hbs edu

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.

 

Kristen Bettencourt
Health Care Program Manager

Phone: 617 496 6903   Fax: 617 547-8543 
email: kbettencourt hbs edu

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.

 

Richard Bryden
Director of Information Products

Phone: 617 495 6777   Fax: 617 384 7268
email: rbryden hbs edu


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.

 

Lydia Graham
Executive Assistant to Michael Porter

Phone: 617 495 6408   Fax: 617-547-8543
email: lgraham hbs edu

 

Jill Hogue

Phone: 617 495 6153   Fax: 617-547-8543
email: jhogue hbs edu

 

Jem Hudson
Research Associate

Phone: 617 495 6041   Fax: 617 384 7268
email: jehudson hbs edu

 

Alex Houghtalin

Phone: 617 495 6041   Fax: 617 496 7392
email: ahoughtalin hbs edu

 

Christian Ketels
Principal Associate
Phone: 617 384 5935   Fax: 617 384 7268
email: cketels hbs edu

Dr. Christian Ketels is a member of the Harvard Business School faculty at Professor Michael E. Porter’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. He holds a PhD (Econ) from the London School of Economics and further degrees from the Kiel Institute for World Economics and Cologne University. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics and a Director of The Competitiveness Institute, a not-for-profit global network of cluster practitioners and researchers. He has led cluster and competitiveness projects in many parts of the world, has written widely on economic policy issues, and is a frequent speaker on competitiveness and strategy issues.

Dr. Ketels currently serves on the advisory boards of The Baltic Development Forum, the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Universidad de los Andes, ORKESTRA The Basque Competitiveness Institute, the academic advisory council of Invest in Sweden Agency, is a special advisor to the Asia Competitiveness Institute, chairs the selection committee of RegioCluster.NRW cluster funding competition in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), and is a member of the selection committee for the excellence cluster initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany).

 

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.

 

Katie Schlepp
MOC Course Administrator

Phone: 617 384 8085   Fax: 617 384 7268
email: kschlepp hbs edu

 

Caleb Stowell
 
Phone: 617 495 6657   Fax: 617 496 7392
email: cstowell hbs edu

 

Samantha Zyontz
Research Manager 

Phone: 617 495 6451   Fax: 617 496 7392
email: szyontz hbs edu

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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