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Michael
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Biosketch:
Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William
Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. A leading authority
on competitive strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions,
Professor Porter's work is recognized in governments, corporations, non-profits,
and academic circles across the globe. His ideas on competition and strategy
are taught in virtually every business school in the world. He has also
written extensively on competitiveness, economic development, economically
distressed areas, philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, and
most recently, competition in health care. Professor Porter is the author
of 17 books and numerous articles, and is a five-time winner of the McKinsey
Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. In addition
to his research and writing, Professor Porter serves as an advisor to
business and government. He has served as strategy advisor to numerous
leading U.S. and international companies, including Caterpillar, Procter
& Gamble, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Royal Dutch Shell, Taiwan Semiconductor,
and Sysco. Professor Porter also plays an active role in U.S. economic
policy with the Executive Branch and Congress, and has led national strategy
initiatives in numerous countries. Professor Porter has won numerous awards
and honors, including Harvard's David A. Wells Prize in Economics for
his research in industrial organization, the Academy of Management's highest
award for scholarly contributions to management, and the Adam Smith Award
of the National Association of Business Economists. The recipient of numerous
honorary doctorates and national honors, he was elected an Honorary Fellow
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005. Professor Porter received a
B.S.E. with high honors in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton
University. He received an M.B.A. with high distinction from the Harvard
Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar, and a Ph.D. in
Business Economics from Harvard University.
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