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Presentations
  • 16 Oct 2014
U.S. Competitiveness and Implications for our Economic Future
by Michael E. Porter
  • 10 Oct 2013
Why U.S. Business is Stalling
by Michael E. Porter
  • 9 Jul 2013
American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
by Michael E. Porter
  • 1 Apr 2013
Restoring U.S. Competitiveness
by Michael E. Porter
  • 11 Jun 2008
Regional Competitiveness in a Global Economy
by Michael E. Porter
MOC Student Projects
  • 10 may 2013
The Pennsylvania Gas Cluster
by Daniel B. Cunningham, Roman Pletter, Kaweh Sadegh-Zadeh, Christopher David Smith and Galymzhan Zhakiyanov
  • 10 may 2013
New York City Motion Picture Cluster
by Aaron Anderson, Vernon Beckford, Teresa Conrad, Landon Dickey and Sarah Zhang
  • 04 may 2012
The Massachusetts Robotics Cluster
by Samer Abughannam, Abdallah Hussein Khamis, Mohd Ridzwan Nordin, Adil Utembayev and Ricardo Victorero
  • 04 may 2012
The Miami Marine Transportation Cluster
by Julia Chabrier, Brian Hull, Daniel Rotman, Maxeme Tuchman and Justin Zorn
  • 04 may 2012
South Carolina Automotive Sector: Analysis of an Emergent Cluster
by Farayi Chipungu, Kendall Fitch, Daniel Newman, John Soleanicov and Snezhana Zlatinova
  • 04 may 2012
Tennessee Music Cluster
by Megan Bernard, Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Andrea Hill, Clara Maddox and Matt Schrimpf
  • 06 may 2011
The California Solar Energy Cluster
by Brett Gibson, Kelli Moles, Meredith Sanger-Katz, Chiara Salghini and Julia Taylor
  • 06 may 2011
Internet Based Services Cluster in Silicon Valley
by Jose Carlos Alcazar, Carmen Ana Deseda, Angel Kelchev and Francisco Navarro
  • 06 may 2011
The Minnesota Medical Devices Cluster
by Ipek Demirsoy, Ankur Puri, Thongchai Rattanaruengyot, Lucinda Woods and Mi Zhou
  • 07 may 2010
The Massachusetts Higher Education and Knowledge Cluster
by Antoine Artiganave, Jennifer Kelly, Mikra Krasniqi, Madeleine Tjon Pian Gi and Linda Zhang
  • 08 may 2009
The North Carolina Furniture Cluster
by Sandeep Acharya, Zach Clayton, Sebastian Eriksson Giwa, Eyal Malinger and Andre Moura
  • 08 may 2009
Automotive Cluster in Michigan (USA)
by Souleymane Ba, Camille DeLaite, Rushabh Kapashi and Vivek Taparia
  • 02 may 2008
Washington, D.C. MSA IT / Tech Services Cluster
by John Cannon, Matt Dunn, Graves Tompkins and Sridhar Prasad
  • 05 may 2006
The Chicago Processed Food Cluster
by Steve Altman, Warren Durbin, Emily Felt, Chad Hazlett and Marco Lopez-Silva
  • 05 may 2006
The LA Motion Picture Industry Cluster
by Madukhar Gupta, Robert Jacobi, Jean-François Jamet and Lubna Malik
Articles
  • mar 2012
  • Harvard Business Review
The Looming Challenge to U.S Competitiveness
by Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
  • nov 10, 2008
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
Why America Needs an Economic Strategy
by Michael E. Porter
Other Publications
  • 3 Jan 2012
Prosperity at Risk: Findings of Harvard Business School's Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
by Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
  • 2009
Clusters and Economic Policy: Aligning Public Policy with the New Economics of Competition
by Michael E. Porter
  • 2007
Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands
by Michael E. Porter
  • jan 13, 2003
  • The Financial Times
The Tax Cut That Could Pay Dividends
by Michael E. Porter
  • 1 Oct 2001
Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness
by Michael E. Porter
In the News
  • 13 Mar 2009
  • CNBC Squawk Box
Spending to Keep America Great
by Michael E. Porter
  • 13 Mar 2009
  • CNBC Squawk Box
Porter's Points, an interview on america's long term priorities
by Michael E. Porter
 

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