Michael Porter

Economics, business strategy, and social causes theoretic.
Michael Porter portrait.

  • 1947- Born Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
  • 1979- "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy", Harvard Business Review
  • 1980 - Competitive Strategy, Free Press, New York. The book was voted the ninth most influential management book of the 20th century in a poll of the Fellows of the Academy of Management.
  • 1985 - Competitive Advantage, Free Press, New York.
  • 1986 - Competition in Global Industries, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
  • 1987 - "From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy", Harvard Business Review, May/June 1987, pp 43–59.
  • 1996 - "What is Strategy", Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996.
  • 1998 - On Competition, Boston: Harvard Business School, 1998.
  • 1990 - "The Competitive Advantage of Nations", Free Press, New York, 1990.
  • 1991 - "Towards a Dynamic Theory of Strategy", Strategic Management Journal, 12 (Winter Special Issue), pp. 95–117.
  • 1997 - "How Much Does Industry Matter, Really?" Strategic Management Journal, 18 (Summer Special Issue), pp. 15–30.
  • 2001 - "Strategy and the Internet", Harvard Business Review, March 2001, pp. 62–78.
  • 2006 - "Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility", Harvard Business Review, December 2006, pp. 78–92.
  • 2008 - "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy", Harvard Business Review, January 2008, pp. 79–93.
  • 2011 - "Creating Shared Value," Harvard Business Review, Jan/Feb 2011, Vol. 89 Issue 1/2, pp 62–77.
  • 2014 - "How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Competition", Harvard Business Review, November 2014, pp 65–88.
  • 2015 - "How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Companies", Harvard Business Review, October 2015, pp 97—114.

What I've come to see as probably my greatest gift is the ability to take an extraordinarily complex, integrated, multidimensional problem and get arms around it conceptually in a way that helps, that informs and empowers practitioners to actually do things. - Porter 2010

Porter's Five forces analysis is a framework that attempts to analyze the level of competition within an industry and business strategy development.

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