On Competition

Michael E. Porter – the Bishop William Lawrence University Harvard Business School professor and seminal author of The Competitive Advantage of Nations – offers 13 groundbreaking essays organized by topic. These pieces, which first appeared in the Harvard Business Review, discuss how competition can address social issues.

Competitive advantage is created and sustained through a highly localized process. Differences in national values, culture, economic structures, institutions and histories all contribute to competitive success. Michael E. Porter

After reviewing the fundamentals of staying competitive, Porter explores market solutions to perplexing problems of commerce in contemporary America.