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Michael Porter
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American engineer and economist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Two Hundred Years of Chebeague
- Doom of Namdaron
- Success and Failure of US Competitive Political Strategy
- Doom of Namdaron Part Two
- Doom of Namdaron Part Three
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 110
- Total plays
- 280
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 960
- Cited by
- 163,513
Research areas
Most cited works
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors1980 · 16,839 cit
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance1985 · 14,819 cit
- The Competitive Advantage of Nations1990 · 14,196 cit
- Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship1995 · 12,338 cit
- Strategy and society: the link between competitive advantage and corporate social responsibility2007 · 7,479 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,326x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,762x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,872x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,536x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,978x
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Quotes
- “If people in the organization don't understand how a company is supposed to be different, how it creates value compared to its rivals, then how can they possibly make all of the myriad choices they have to make? Every salesman has to know the strategy — otherwise, he won't know who to call on. Every engineer has to understand it, or she won't know what to build.”
- “The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”
- “The essence of formulating strategy is relating a company to its environment.”
- “Low cost relative to competitors becomes the theme running through the entire strategy, though quality, service and other areas cannot be ignored.”
- “The firm achieving focus may also potentially earn above-average returns for its industry. Its focus means that the firm either has a low cost position with its strategic target, high differentiation, or both.”
- “The grandfather of concepts for predicting the probable course of industry evolution is the familiar .”
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Eugene Porter , ( 1947-05-23 ) May 23, 1947 (age 79) , Ann Arbor, Michigan , US
- Education
- Princeton University ( BSE ) Harvard University ( MBA , PhD )
- Notable ideas
- Porter hypothesis , Porter's five forces , Porter's four corners model
- Website
- www .isc .hbs .edu
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- date of birth
- 1947-05-23
- name in native language
- Michael Porter
- social media followers
- 171942
- affiliation string
- Harvard Business School
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Article
Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited with creating Porter's five forces analysis, a foundational framework in strategic management that remains widely used in both academia and industry. He is generally regarded as the father of the modern strategy field. He is also regarded as one of the world's most influential thinkers on management and competitiveness as well as one of the most influential business strategists. His work has been recognized by governments, non-governmental organizations and universities.
Early life and education