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Michael Porter
University Professor, Harvard | World's Leading Authority on Competitive Strategy | Creator of the Five Forces & the Value Chain | Founder, Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness
Michael E. Porter is the world's most influential authority on competitive strategy and one of the most important business thinkers who ever lived. A University Professor at Harvard and creator of the Five Forces, the value chain, and Creating Shared Value, his frameworks are taught in every business school on earth. On stage, he offers the rare experience of hearing strategy explained by the person who defined the field.
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Michael Porter biography
Michael E. Porter is the world’s most influential authority on competitive strategy and one of the most important business thinkers who has ever lived. For more than four decades, his frameworks have shaped how companies, governments, and entire nations understand competition, and the language he created, the Five Forces, the value chain, competitive advantage, has become the common vocabulary of strategy taught in virtually every business school on earth.
Business speaker Michael Porter is a University Professor at Harvard, the highest honor the university can bestow on a faculty member, based at Harvard Business School, where he founded and leads the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. His ideas began a revolution: his 1979 framework of the “five forces” that determine the profitability of any industry reshaped both academic research and everyday business practice, and his subsequent concepts of the value chain and generic strategies gave leaders a rigorous way to build and sustain competitive advantage. He is the only person to have won the prestigious McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year an unprecedented seven times.
From Competitive Strategy to Shared Value
The author of nineteen books and more than 125 articles, Porter wrote the field-defining works Competitive Strategy and Competitive Advantage, then extended his thinking to whole economies in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, introducing the “diamond” model and the idea of industry clusters that now guides economic policy around the world. In recent decades he has applied his strategic lens to some of society’s hardest problems, from transforming health-care delivery through value-based care, to redefining the relationship between business and society through the concept of “Creating Shared Value.” Honored by Harvard Business Review as one of the four most influential thinkers in its century-long history, he has received more than twenty honorary doctorates and the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
As a speaker, Michael Porter offers audiences the extraordinary experience of hearing strategy explained by the person who defined the field. He speaks on competitive strategy and the Five Forces, building and sustaining competitive advantage, the competitiveness of nations, regions, and clusters, and how creating shared value aligns profit with social progress. Audiences leave with the definitive frameworks for thinking about competition, straight from their original architect, and a sharper, more rigorous way of seeing their own strategic choices.
Michael Porter Speaking Videos
Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social problems
Insight: Ideas for Change - Michael Porter - Creating Shared Value
Michael Porter Keynote Topics
Porter presents the frameworks that made him the father of modern strategy. He explains how the "five forces" shape the profitability of any industry, why some industries and companies are far more profitable than others, and how leaders can use this analysis to find defensible, advantaged positions, delivered by the very thinker who created the model taught worldwide.
Drawing on his landmark work, Porter shows the crucial difference between operational effectiveness and true strategy. He explains how companies build durable competitive advantage through the value chain and clear strategic positioning, and why the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do, a discipline more vital than ever in a fast-moving, imitation-prone economy.
Porter extends strategy from the company to the economy, sharing the "diamond" framework and cluster theory that now guide governments and regional leaders worldwide. He explains what truly makes nations and regions prosperous and competitive, offering policymakers and business leaders a rigorous foundation for driving economic development and shared prosperity.
Porter presents one of his most influential recent ideas: that companies can generate economic value in ways that also create value for society, addressing social problems as a source of innovation and growth rather than as a cost. He shows leaders how to move beyond traditional corporate social responsibility to build shared value into the core of competitive strategy.
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FAQs on Booking Michael Porter
Why Michael Porter?
Booking Michael Porter brings audiences the single most important figure in the history of competitive strategy, an intellectual giant whose frameworks are foundational to how business is taught and practiced worldwide. A University Professor at Harvard, the school's highest honor, the only seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award, and named by Harvard Business Review one of the four most influential thinkers of its 100-year history, he offers unrivaled authority and depth. Hearing him speak is not a typical keynote; it is the experience of learning strategy from its original architect. For the most senior audiences, from CEOs to heads of state, few speakers on earth carry comparable weight. He is an ideal speaker for events on strategy, competitiveness, economic development, and the future of business. To bring Michael Porter to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Michael Porter?
Michael E. Porter is an American academic universally regarded as the world's leading authority on competitive strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. He is a University Professor at Harvard, based at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The creator of foundational frameworks including the Five Forces and the value chain, and the author of nineteen books such as Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations, he is the only seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and has received more than twenty honorary doctorates.
What are Porter's Five Forces?
Porter's Five Forces is a framework, introduced by Michael Porter in 1979, for analyzing the competitive structure and profit potential of any industry. The five forces are: the threat of new entrants, the bargaining power of suppliers, the bargaining power of buyers, the threat of substitute products or services, and the intensity of rivalry among existing competitors. Together they determine how attractive an industry is and how its profits are divided. The framework helps companies understand their competitive environment and find a position where they are less vulnerable and more profitable, and remains one of the most widely used tools in all of business strategy.
What topics does business speaker Michael Porter cover?
Michael Porter speaks on competitive strategy and the Five Forces, building and sustaining competitive advantage, the competitiveness of nations, regions, and clusters, value-based health care, and Creating Shared Value. His keynotes suit the most senior events on strategy, competitiveness, economic development, and business leadership. To book Michael Porter as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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