Contents
vi Contents
Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy 305
michael e. porter
Part III Competitive Solutions to Societal Problems
9 Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate 347
michael e. porter and claas van der linde
10 The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City 373
michael e. porter
11 Rede?ning Competition in Health Care 405
michael e. porter and elizabeth olmsted teisberg
Part IV Strategy, Philanthropy, and Corporate Social Responsibility
12 Philanthropy¿s New Agenda: Creating Value 431
michael e. porter and mark r. kramer
13 The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy 451
michael e. porter and mark r. kramer
14 Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility 479
michael e. porter and mark r. kramer
Contents vii
Part V Leadership
15 Seven Surprises for New CEOs 507
Index 000 About the Contributors 000

For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles, two entirely new pieces together with ten of Porter's articles from the Harvard Business Review, as well as an introduction from Porter, his first statement on how the parts of his work fit together. To read through this collection is to experience Porter at work: we see firsthand as his important theories take shape, deepen, and evolve over time. Porter addresses the important issues of competition, from company strategy to the relationship between competition and environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy. At once eloquent and convincing, these essays help us to examine and understand the essence of competition. On Competition offers the intellectual foundations for company and country strategies for the years ahead.