Courses

In 2002, the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) course was created by Professor Michael Porter and colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The course explores the determinants of competitiveness and successful economic development viewed from a bottom-up, microeconomic perspective. It was designed both for students at Harvard, and for locally-trained professors at educational institutions around the world. Those institutions became part of the MOC Network, developed to create local capacity to understand, teach, and upgrade competitiveness through teaching, developing cases, and conducting research so as to expand the body of knowledge and become leaders on competitiveness in their regions.

With Professor Porter’s retirement in 2023, an independent entity—the MOC Network—was established as a community of scholars and leaders in strategic development projects, focusing on addressing today’s global, regional, national, and local challenges through improving competitiveness, shared value, and social progress. The MOC Network is an active global collaborative network of universities, business schools, research institutes, competitiveness centers, and strategic partners, with representatives from 50 universities in more than 30 countries.

To learn more and to join the MOC Network, please contact Pablo Nuño, MOC Network Program Director, at contact@mocnetwork.org.