Preface: Michael Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. University professorship is the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. A leading authority on company strategy, the competitiveness of nations and regions, and strategic approaches to societal problems, Michael Porter’s work is widely recognized in governments, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe. A sought after teacher and the author of 19 books and over 125 articles, Professor Michael Porter is director of the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, which was founded in 2001 to further his work and research.

Michael is an advisor to countries, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe, Seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year, Ranked among the world’s Top Ten Management Thinkers by Thinkers50 every year since 2001, Frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous other national publications and academic journals, Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce, 22 honorary doctorate degrees from universities and learning institutions, Curriculum on Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) taught at more than 100 universities worldwide

Michael Porter: The case for letting business solve social problems

The largest business opportunity today……….

 

“Business profits from solving social problems”

“Only businesses create resources” [to solve problems].

Synopsis: What values does your business share….what resources does it create….and what problems does it solve?