Awards & Recognition
★7-9 time McKinsey Award winner (sources vary) for best Harvard Business Review article
★Bishop William Lawrence University Professor - Harvard's highest faculty recognition
★24 honorary doctorates
★US Department of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award
★Academy of Management's highest award for scholarly contributions
★Adam Smith Award from National Association of Business Economists
★John Kenneth Galbraith Medal
★Sheth Medal for marketing scholarship contributions
★David A. Wells Prize in Economics from Harvard
Notable Facts
→Father of modern strategy field and creator of Porter's Five Forces
→Author of 19+ books including 'Competitive Strategy' and 'Competitive Advantage of Nations'
→Founded Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard
→Co-founded consulting firms Monitor Group (now Deloitte) and FSG
→Most cited scholar in economics and business
→Works on health care reform, political innovation, and economic development
→Advisor to Fortune 500 companies and governments in 20+ countries
→Co-authored 'The Politics Industry' analyzing US political system as duopoly