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Michael Porter

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Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947) is an American businessman and professor at Harvard Business School. He was one of the founders of the consulting firm The Monitor Group (now part of Deloitte) and FSG, a social impact consultancy. He is credited with creating Porter's five forces analysis, a widely used management framework. He is generally regarded as the father of the modern strategy field. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Porter is the 39th most popular economist (down from 29th in 2019), the 616th most popular biography from United States (down from 440th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Economist. Learn more about Michael Porter's academic impact at Rankless.

Michael Porter is most famous for his five forces model, which is a framework for analyzing the competitive intensity of an industry. The five forces are: threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers, and rivalry among existing competitors.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Michael Porter ranks 39 out of 414. Before him are Elinor Ostrom, Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, and Carl Menger. After him are Barack Obama Sr., Léon Walras, Wassily Leontief, Leonid Hurwicz, John Hicks, and Jacques Delors.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Michael Porter ranks 36. Before him are Takeshi Kitano, Gerd Binnig, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Paco de Lucía, France Gall, and Michael Levitt. After him are Josep Borrell, Linda B. Buck, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Farrell, Tom Clancy, and Roger D. Kornberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Porter ranks 616 out of 20,380. Before him are George Westinghouse (1846), J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Nick Nolte (1941), Jim Simons (1938), Howard Gardner (1943), and Warren Beatty (1937). After him are John Kerry (1943), Jerry Lewis (1926), Leon Cooper (1930), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Edward W. Morley (1838), and Mia Farrow (1945).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Michael Porter ranks 10. Before him are William F. Sharpe (1934), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Elinor Ostrom (1933), and Charles Cooley (1864). After him are Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Gary Becker (1930), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Douglass North (1920).

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