Perhaps Peter Drucker, Michael Porter and Tom Peters should be nervously looking over their shoulders.
Michael Porter (see article), a professor at Harvard Business School, has looked recently at this seemingly paradoxical revival of industrial clusters.
According to Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor and author, being biggest meant you had created entry barriers that kept your turf safe.
And even Michael Porter (who I love to diss) has said wonderfully clear and accurate things about the value of strategy on occasion.
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Among other liberalising moves, he has hired a team of international consultants, led by Michael Porter, an economist from America's Harvard University, to detect symptoms and suggest cures.
Such tendencies were confirmed, and even advocated, by the most famous business writer of the 20th Century, Michael Porter, who wrote that the very object of business strategy is to avoid competition.
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Now t he New York Times has reported RIM leadership as one of the worst in 2011, because an installed base is no longer the competitive entry barrier Michael Porter waxed about in the early 1980s.
Grouping together in the same place is supposed to help small firms remain competitive, as management gurus such as Michael Porter have argued, since they can tap the deep local pools of skilled workers, finance and suppliers.
Michael Porter, a Harvard professor who has become the region's economic guru, peddles the comforting notion that Central America may be able to by-pass the sweatshop stage of development and leap quickly from poverty to northern standards of productivity, social protection and environmental sensitivity.
Against the run of the play Oldham were handed a route back into the game after Michael Jackson brought down Porter and Liddell made no mistake with the penalty.
We were joined by chef Michael Lomonaco, who runs Center Bar as well as the nearby Porter House New York steakhouse.
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