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Michael E. Porter

Disciplines:
business strategy
economics
harvard
strategy/competitive advantage

Summary

American business strategist — Harvard Business School — creator of Porter's Five Forces and the Competitive Advantage framework — the most influential business strategy theorist of the last 50 years.

Core Contribution

Creates the Five Forces framework — Porter's Competitive Strategy synthesizes industrial organization economics into a practical strategic framework (threat of entry, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of suppliers and buyers, rivalry among competitors) that is the most widely taught business strategy framework in MBA programs worldwide.

Notable Works & Achievements

Competitive Strategy

Competitive Advantage

The Competitive Advantage of Nations

On Competition

Creating Shared Value

Historical Influences

Joe Bain Richard Caves

Intellectual Lineage

Ann ArborPrinceton Harvard MBAHarvard Harvard Business School

Contemporaries & Peers

Gary Hamel C.K. Prahalad Clayton Christensen

Minds Influenced

Business strategy

Intellectual Posterity

Five Forces Competitive Advantage Porter's DiamondCompetitive Strategy Value chain

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