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About Michael Porter
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  • A Letter from Michael Porter
  • Biography
  • The Essential Porter
  • Honors & Awards
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  • VBHCD Initiative

About Michael Porter

“He has influenced more executives - and more nations - than any other business professor on earth. Now, he and an all-star team aim to rescue the U.S. economy.”

  • — Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor-at-large
  • Fortune magazine, 2012
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Michael Porter Biography
 
 
 

Michael Porter is the founder of the modern strategy field and one of the world’s most influential thinkers on management and competitiveness. The author of 19 books and over 130 articles, he is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the director of the school’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, which was founded in 2001 to further his work and research.

A Letter from Michael Porter
 
Publications
 
  • 20 May 2013
  • The Lancet

Redefining Global Health-Care Delivery

by Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer, & Michael E. Porter
 
  • Oct 2012
  • FSG

Measuring Shared Value: How to Unlock Value by Linking Business & Social Results

by Michael E. Porter, Greg Hills, Marc Pfitzer, Sonja Patscheke, & Elizabeth Hawkins
 
  • Jul 2012
  • NBER Working Paper No. 18249

The Determinants of National Competitiveness

by Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter & Scott Stern
 

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Honors & Awards

Michael Porter has been widely recognized for his work. Some of his many honors include Harvard's David A. Wells Prize in Economics (1973) for his research in industrial organization. He also received the Graham and Dodd Award of the Financial Analysts Federation in 1980. Michael Porter's book Competitive Advantage won the George R. Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management in 1985 as the outstanding contribution to management thought.

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Porter Prizes

The Porter Prize recognizes outstanding companies that have achieved and maintained superior profitability in a particular industry. Originally launched in Japan in 2001, a second Porter Prize expanded to India in 2012. The Porter Prize for Excellence in CSV (South Korea) and the Value Based Healthcare Prize were both established in 2014.

Porter Prize Japan
Porter Prize South Korea

Porter Prize India
Value Based Healthcare Prize

 

U.S. Competitiveness Project

A research-led effort to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States.

 

The Social Progress Imperative

Advancing global wellbeing by measuring how countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens.

 

The Global Health Delivery Project

Systematizing the study of global health delivery and rapidly disseminating knowledge through a range of coordinated initiatives.

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