Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Michael E. Porter

T1StrategistsCompetitive strategy

Created Porter's five forces analysis, a foundational framework of strategic management; co-founded the consultancies Monitor Group and FSG.

Harvard Business SchoolInstitute for Strategy and Competitiveness

Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School

Competitive Strategy and the five-forces framework are the primary source for industry analysis, and Competitive Advantage supplied the value-chain vocabulary the field still uses.

12 books of their own · 22 articles

Books 12Writing 22Profiles 5

Start here

  1. Interbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral Market Power1976
  2. Competitive Strategy1980
  3. Cases in Competitive Strategy1983
Interbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral MInterbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral Market Power
T4 Interbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral Market Power
Michael E. Porter · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

His doctoral work, published by Harvard University Press

Competitive StrategyCompetitive Strategy
T3 Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gurley, Jamie Dimon

Cases in Competitive StrategyCases in Competitive Strategy
T4 Cases in Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads
Competitive AdvantageCompetitive Advantage
T1 Competitive Advantage
Michael E. Porter · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

The value chain: how to find where a firm's cost or differentiation advantage lies.

Competition in Global IndustriesCompetition in Global Industries
T4 Competition in Global Industries
Michael E. Porter · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edited volume

The Competitive Advantage of NationsThe Competitive Advantage of Nations
T3 The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Michael E. Porter · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads
Canada at the CrossroadsCanada at the Crossroads
T4 Canada at the Crossroads
Michael E. Porter · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Study of Canadian competitiveness with the Monitor Company

Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive AStrategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage
T4 Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage
Michael E. Porter, Cynthia A. Montgomery · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edited HBR reader

On CompetitionOn Competition
T4 On Competition
Michael E. Porter · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Collected HBR articles; expanded edition 2008

Can Japan Compete?Can Japan Compete?
T4 Can Japan Compete?
Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads
Redefining Health CareRedefining Health Care
T4 Redefining Health Care
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

The Politics IndustryThe Politics Industry
T4 The Politics Industry
Michael E. Porter, Katherine M. Gehl · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

US politics analysed as an industry with five forces, and reforms to fix it.

Recommended by: Charles Koch, Mark Cuban

Interbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral Market PowerHis doctoral work, published by Harvard University Press1976T4–
Competitive StrategyTechniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors1980T3Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gurley, Jamie Dimon
Cases in Competitive Strategy–1983T4–
Competitive AdvantageThe value chain: how to find where a firm's cost or differentiation advantage lies.1985T1–
Competition in Global IndustriesEdited volume1986T4–
The Competitive Advantage of Nations–1990T3–
Canada at the CrossroadsStudy of Canadian competitiveness with the Monitor Company1991T4–
Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive AdvantageEdited HBR reader1991T4–
On CompetitionCollected HBR articles; expanded edition 20081998T4–
Can Japan Compete?–2000T4–
Redefining Health CareCreating Value-Based Competition on Results2006T4–
The Politics IndustryUS politics analysed as an industry with five forces, and reforms to fix it.2020T4Charles Koch, Mark Cuban

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