“michael e porter”

Porter builds on the ideas of his earlier works to explore what makes a nation's firms and industries competitive in global markets and what propels national economic development.Now beyond its 11th printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's "The Competitive Advantage of Nations... More

Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differ... More

Presented as a collective whole, here are a dozen articles that address the important issues of modern competition, from its relationship with environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy.For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fu... More

"Competitive Advantage" extends Porter's proven analytical techniques to the discreet activities of the individual firm, showing how to evaluate and improve a company's competitive position.The essential complement to the pathbreaking book "Competitive Strategy," Michael E. Porter's "Competitive Adv... More

What fundamentally determines the profit potential of a business? What does a company do to protect its territory from another firm seeking to enter it? How is it able to forecast its future under shifting and uncertain conditions -- or predict how its rivals will behave under those same conditions?... More

Competitive Advantage introduces a whole newway of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of thevalue chain disaggregates a company into 'activities', or the discrete functionsor processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitiveadvantage. Now an essential... More

The World Economic Forum's annual "Global Competitiveness Report "evaluates the potential for sustained economic growth of over 130 developed and emerging economies and ranks them accordingly. Since its first release in 1979, the "Report "has become the most authoritative and comprehensive study of ... More