Faculty
The MOC course at Harvard was created by Professor Michael Porter and is taught by distinguished faculty from Harvard Business School and the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.
Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School, and Director, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. A leading authority on company strategy, the competitiveness of nations and regions, and strategic approaches to societal problems, Professor Porter’s work is widely recognized in governments, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe. A sought after teacher, he developed the MOC curriculum and has written 19 books and over 125 articles.
Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. She is also a Faculty Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's International Macroeconomics and Finance Program, Member of the Latin-American Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF), Faculty Associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and member of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ (DRCLAS) policy committee. In 2008, she was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012. She currently teaches Microeconomics of Competitiveness, a course listed at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.
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