*Michael Portner is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (a University Professor is the highest professional recognition given to a Harvard faculty member); he is the author of 16 books and over 100 articles including Competitive Strategy (1980) that is now in its 58th printing; Competitive Advantage (1985), in its 34th printing; The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), used throughout the world to guide economic development; co-author and co-chair of the annual Global Competitiveness Report; co-author with Scott Stern of The New Challenge to America's Prosperity (1999), co-author of Can Japan Compete?, which challenges long-held views about the sources of Japan's economic miracle and offers a new path for that nation's future. His ideas on strategy are taught at virtually every business school in the world, and his new annual course on the microeconomics of economic development and competitiveness was taught in 2004 via the web at 40 universities around the world. Prof. Porter received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1973, an MBA from Harvard in 1971, and a B.S.E in engineering from Princeton in 1969. Staudhammer was the chief engineer for the rocket engine that landed Neil Armstrong on the moon and that was used to rescue Jim Lovell and Apollo 13 (see the cover to Part 3); was an engineer for TRW Inc. for more than 40 years, and retired as TRW's Chief Science and Technology Officer with 17,000 engineers and other scientists world-wide in 2002.
He has a Ph.D in chemical engineering, is on the visiting committee to five U.S. engineering schools, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Professor in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a Faculty Research Fellow and a co-organizer of the Innovation Policy and the Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor of Management Science, and co-author with Michael Porter of The New Challenge to America's Prosperity (1999). He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford in 1996, and his BA in Economics from New York University. litigation attorney with over 30 years experience with Jones Day, Baker & Hostetler and the Ohio Attorney General's Antitrust Division. His B.
A. is from Yale in 1966 and J.D. from C.W.R.U. in 1973, and has published extensively on antitrust, healthcare and litigation subjects including "An Evolution of Merger-JV Analysis" in American Bar Association, Perspectives on Fundamental Antitrust Theory (2001); "Antitrust Economics as Science After Daubert," 42 Antitrust Bulletin 871 (1998); Guest Editor, "Symposium: New Foundations for Joint Ventures and Antitrust," 44 Antitrust Bulletin 785-1078 (1999), and "Harmonizing Antitrust Worldwide by Evolving to Michael Porter's Dynamic Productivity Growth Analysis," 46 Antitrust Bulletin 879 (2002).
He taught math and physics in the Peace Corps in Malaysia in the 1960s. He recently founded and is the CEO of Next Generation Healthcare, LLC. *Charles Weller is an antitrust, healthcare and *Scott Stern is an Associate *Peter.