Michael Porter
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"Michael Eugene Porter" is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, based at the Harvard Business School. He is a leading authority on competitive strategy and the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states, and regions. Michael Porter's work is recognized in many governments, corporations and academic circles globally. He chairs Harvard Business School's program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations.

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Europe was suffering from a competitiveness crisis.

In the future, ... buying a single country fund will be akin to buying an Iowa fund or a Massachusetts fund.

Now, there's more value to be unleashed.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

It is a real disappointment to see us make so many mistakes. The mistakes cost us the game. We were prepared, but mistakes cost us.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

We have to assume that Europe has more legs. As long as we have those pillars, we would expect an upward trend.

It's sobering. It suggests that there are relatively few inner cities that are thriving in the sense of job growth.

Investors need to do the same degree of comparison shopping they would normally do when choosing between funds, which means digging into things like expense ratios, historical performance and holdings.