On Competition, Updated & Expanded Edition
by Michael E. Porter

Hardcover, 576pp
Harvard Business Press, October 2008 (updated and expanded edition)
ISBN-13: 978-1422126967

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FROM THE PUBLISHER
For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. The updated and expanded edition of On Competition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and CEO leadership.

This collection captures Porter's unique ability to bridge theory and practice. Each of the articles has not only shaped thinking, but also redefined the work of practitioners in its respective field. In an insightful new introduction, Porter relates each article to the whole of his thinking about competition and value creation, and traces how that thinking has deepened over time.

This collection is organized by topic, allowing the reader easy access to the wide range of Porter's work.

Parts I and II present the frameworks for which Porter is best known: frameworks that address how companies, as well as nations and regions, gain and sustain competitive advantage.

Part III shows how strategic thinking can address society's most pressing challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery.

Part IV explores how both nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy.

Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership.

LIBRARY JOURNAL
Porter, a professor at the Harvard Business School and premier investigator of corporate strategy, has collected 10 previously published articles from the Harvard Business Review together with two new pieces on competition and competitive strategy. The essays are grouped into three categories: core concepts, location as a competitive advantage and the competitive solutions to societal problems. -Steven Silkunas, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Philadelphia

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael E. Porter, one of the world's leading authorities on competitive strategy and international competitiveness, is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 1983, Professor Porter was appointed to President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the initiative that triggered the competitiveness debate in America. He serves as an adviser to heads of state, governors, mayors and CEOs throughout the world. The recipient of the Wells Prize in Economics, the Adam Smith Award, three McKinsey Awards and honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and six other universities, Porter is the author of 17 books. Among them: Competitive Strategy, The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Cases in Competitive Strategy, all published by The Free Press.

He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.