Microeconomics of Competitiveness
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 was designed for students at Harvard as well as a platform for educational institutions and locally trained professors teach the course around the world. The MOC course explores the determinants of competitiveness and successful economic development viewed from a bottom-up, microeconomic perspective.
The MOC Affiliate Network
The MOC Affiliate Network is a group of more than 100 educational institutions around the world that teach the MOC curriculum and collaborate in the area of competitiveness. The network was developed with the vision to create local capacity to understand, teach, and upgrade competitiveness through a highly scalable structure. The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School developed the curriculum, teaching materials, and a platform for disseminating these materials around the world. Leveraging the network structure, faculty now collaborate on teaching, developing cases, and researching as ways to expand the body of knowledge and become leaders on competitiveness in their regions.
About the MOC Network
The MOC Affiliate Network Prospectus provides detailed information for institutions and faculty interested in joining the network.
MOC Affiliate Prospectus 2022MOC Student Projects
Competitiveness assessments of countries and clusters, researched by MOC students from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School.
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The MOC Affiliate Network’s 20th Anniversary
The Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Affiliate Network proudly celebrated its 20-year anniversary in December 2022. Professor Michael Porter established the global network in 2002 to create local capacity around the world to understand, teach, and upgrade competitiveness. The network started with two partners in the first year, SSE Riga and INCAE in Nicaragua, and has grown to over 120 universities in over 60 countries as of 2023. Please visit the 20th anniversary page to read more about what this remarkable network has accomplished.
MOC 20th Anniversary Page