Excellent interview with Harvard B. School’s Michael Porter. They hit a wide range of policy issues, including health care, immigration, trade, corporate tax policy, energy development, and the fiscal deficit. Porter attempts to answer the central question:
Can we [U.S.] restore the vitality of our economy?
Good stuff. Click here for interview.
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He is currently the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor based at Harvard Business School where he leads the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. In 1984, he was one of the co-founders of Monitor Group, a global strategy and management consulting firm with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1994, he founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit organization with a mission of fostering economic development in the impoverished inner city. He has been rated among the Thinkers 50, the most influential living management thinkers.
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