Tag: Michael Porter

  • Nation & World

    Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

    New research from HBS faculty on the state of U.S. competitiveness finds that the business community may hold the key to dismantling a dysfunctional political system that threatens the nation’s economic outlook.

    10 minutes
    Illustration of stock market and Capitol.
  • Nation & World

    The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths

    For African Americans and Hispanics, damaged neighborhoods undercut education, health, jobs — the keys to overcoming inequality and succeeding.

    12 minutes
    Illustration of white businessman catching a dollar and colleagues of color catching coins.
  • Nation & World

    Bad bridges to nowhere

    Harvard Business School brings together top leaders in academia, government, and business to consider and address the nation’s transportation and infrastructure shortcomings, which have led to a lag in global competitiveness.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Getting down to business

    Advancing America’s economic competitiveness should be a top priority for elected leaders, Harvard Business School professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin told a group of new members of Congress attending a weeklong Harvard Kennedy School crash course on the policy issues they’ll face in Washington.

    5 minutes