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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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2-3 MAY 2019
Presentation

ICHOM 2019 Conference: Redefining value through patient-centered outcomes

                      
                          Join value-innovators and global leaders from across the health care spectrum at ICHOM's annual conference. More information can be found here

(In press)
Article

Moving to value-based health care: The agenda for information technology.

by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary C. Landman, and Michael E. Porter

January 10, 2019
Article

Three ways to make electronic health records less time-consuming for physicians

by Derek A. Haas, John D. Halamka, and Michael Suk

9-10 JAN 2019
Presentation

January 2019 Strategy for Health Care Delivery

                      
                          Bringing together top management and senior physician leaders from global health care organizations, this Executive Education program examines new strategies, organizational models, and measurement approaches to drive value improvement in health care delivery....

January 2019
Article

Value-based health care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist

by J.A .Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and Thomas W. Feeley

January 2019
Article

A framework for increasing trust between patients and the organizations that care for them

by Thomas H. Lee, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, and Dana Gelb Safran

November 2018
Article

Beyond evidence-based medicine

by S. Chang and Thomas H. Lee

November 8, 2018
Article

Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

by Thomas W. Feeley and Namita Seth Mohta

                          In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of...

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...

October 18, 2018
Article

Great minds don’t always think alike

by Samantha Tam, Derek A. Haas, Moran Amit, Michael E. Porter,Randal S. Weber, and Ehab Y. Hanna

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 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...

September 5, 2018
Article

What 21st Century Health Care Should Learn from 20th Century Business

by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee

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...

August 23, 2018
Article

Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost

by Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley

                          Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we...

August 8, 2018
Article

Hospital-based ACOs Face Challenges in Tracking Performance Indicators

by Christiana Beveridge, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya and Thomas W. Feeley

                          Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements initially hoped for, we sought to better understand the underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association...

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 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

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in Acute Pain Management

by Keyuri Popat, Kelly Ann Gracia, Alexis B. Guzman and Thomas W. Feeley

                          Pain control for patients undergoing thoracic surgery is essential for their comfort and for improving their ability to function after surgery, but it can significantly increase costs. Here, we demonstrate how time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to...