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 2017
Article

Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann

                          While the physical world is three-dimensional, most data is trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of...

21 September 2018
Working Paper

Towards a New Approach for Upgrading Europe's Competitiveness

by Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter

                          The traumatic experience of the European sovereign debt crisis, followed by the outcome of the British referendum on leaving the European Union, has sent shockwaves through Europe. For the first time since the signing of the Treaties of Rome six decades ago, the very...

Septeber 2018
Working Paper

UK Competitiveness after Brexit

by Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter

                          On June 23rd, 2016 52% of UK voters opted to put their country on the path to leave the European Union by March 29, 2019. This result was a surprise to many, and went against the advice of the vast majority of economic experts and business leaders. Two years later, and...

March 2017 (Revised September 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Walmart: Navigating a Changing Retail Landscape

by Michael E. Porter and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo

                          As the largest company, by revenue, in the world, Walmart has been a lightning rod for criticism. However, in an attempt to stay ahead of traditional and digital retailers, and keep customers satisfied with evolving demands, the company is strengthening its competitive...

December 2014 (Revised August 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Discovery Limited

by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Aldo Sesia

                          Discovery Ltd. is a South Africa-based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data collection to innovate in the health care insurance industry. Its founder Adrian Gore believed that the company's products needed to not...

July 2018
Article

How CEOs Manage Time

by Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria

                          In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on. To date, Porter and Nohria have...

July–August 2018
Article

How CEOs Manage Time

by Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria

                          In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on. To date, Porter and Nohria have...

January 2018 (Revised June 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape

by Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Alee Hernandez

                          Medtronic is adapting its strategy to changes in healthcare competition and payments. It has decided to develop new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of...

February 2009 (Revised May 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg

                          The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the...

May 2008 (Revised April 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care

by Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

                          In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical...

February 2017 (Revised April 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Oak Street Health: A New Model of Primary Care

by Michael E. Porter, Thomas H. Lee and Meredith A. Alger

December 2017 (Revised April 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016

by Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Toyin J. Okanlawon

                          Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) began as a stand-alone hospital in the heart of downtown Philadelphia in 1855. By 2016 the CHOP Care Network stretched across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services...

April 2018
Case and Teaching Material

Growing a Cluster: The Singapore Biomedical Sciences Initiative

by Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels

April 2018
Case and Teaching Material

Growing a Cluster: The Singapore Biomedical Sciences Initiative

by Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

April 2014 (Revised March 2018)
Case and Teaching Material

Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care

by Michael E. Porter, Justin M. Bachmann and Zachary C. Landman

                          In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World...

December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
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...

February 2017 (Revised December 2017)
Case and Teaching Material

Precision Agriculture at Deere & Company

by Rajiv Lal, Michael E. Porter and Alexandra Houghtalin

September 2017 (Revised November 2017)
Case and Teaching Material

Intercorp

by Michael E. Porter, Jorge Ramírez-Vallejo and Marcela Merino Dominguez

December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
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...

22 Sep 2017
Presentation

A Strategy for Haitian Prosperity

by Michael E. Porter

                          Overview of Haiti's economic performance; a framework for understanding competitiveness; Haiti's competitive position; policy recommendations for Haiti; building an overall strategy; moving to action.