Publications

Professor Porter is director of the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, which was founded in 2001 to further his work and research. He is the author of 19 books, over 125 articles, and more than 90 HBS case studies. He is a seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year.

Michael E. Porter on Competition

2008 Harvard Business Press Books
Michael E. Porter

On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,” as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership.

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November 2014 (Revised June 2015)
Case and Teaching Material

Walmart: Segmenting Social Impact

by Michael E. Porter, Mark Kramer and Pamela Sud

                          This case provides a sample of Walmart's social engagement activities and asks students to categorize each as philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or creating shared value.

12 May 2015
Presentation

Shared Value and Strategy

by Michael E. Porter

                          The best companies don't compete to be the best—they compete to be unique. Harvard Business School's Prof. Michael E. Porter applies his classic strategy framework to shared value as a differentiating strategy to enhance competitiveness. This slide presentation was...

May 2015
Case and Teaching Material

Walmart: Segmenting Social Impact (TN)

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Pamela Sud

                          This case provides a sample of Walmart's social engagement activities and asks students to categorize each as philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, or creating shared value.

December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
Case and Teaching Material

Dow: Breakthroughs to World Challenges

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Annelena Lobb

                          Dow had adopted the "Breakthroughs to World Challenges" (BWC) program as part of its ten-year 2015 Sustainability Goals. BWC was an internal award recognizing products that effectively addressed one of five world challenges: energy and climate change, sustainable water...

December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
Case and Teaching Material

Yara International: Africa Strategy

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Kerry Herman

                          Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural...

December 2014 (Revised May 2015)
Case and Teaching Material

Social Business at Novartis: Arogya Parivar

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and David Lane

                          Late in 2013, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez was considering whether or how to deepen the company's investment in Arogya Parivar, its profitable program that sold Novartis medicines in rural India while expanding access to medicine and health information to millions of...

April 2015
Case and Teaching Material

Yara International: Africa Strategy (TN)

by Michael E. Porter and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo

                          Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural...

3 Dec 2014
Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

26 Sep 2014
Presentation

Economic and Social Development: The New Learning

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation covers topics on social and economic development, including: competitve advantage of nations and regions, clusters, the social progress index, and creating shared value.

13 May 2014
Presentation

Creating Shared Value: Becoming a Movement

by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer

                          CSV presentation from the 2014 Shared Value Leadership Summit held by FSG. Topics include: shared value momentum, shared value in extractives, and shared value and investors.

7 May 2014
Presentation

Regional Economic and Social Development: The New Learning

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation covers topics on social and economic development, including: competitive advantage of nations and regions, clusters, the Social Progress Index, and creating shared value.

2 Apr 2014
Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

11 Mar 2014
Presentation

The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

13 Feb 2014
Presentation

Shared Value in Extractives

by Michael E. Porter

                          Shared Value in Extractives

Feb 2014
Presentation

The Role of Business in Society: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

28 Jan 2014
Presentation

Creating Shared Value: The Path to Economic and Social Prosperity for Birmingham

by Michael E. Porter

                          The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012).

December 30, 2013
Article

Fundamental Purpose

by Michael E. Porter

                          Directing capital to companies that can use it productively is ultimately the most profound benefit investors can have on society.

05 Nov 2013
Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

11 Oct 2013
Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

by Michael E. Porter

                          This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that...

04 Oct 2013
Presentation

Economic and Social Development: The New Learning

by Michael E. Porter