Harvard’s Michael Porter Addresses the National Governors Association – State Competitiveness: Creating an Economic Strategy in a Time of Austerity. Have You Read Your State’s Business Plan?

Outstanding presentation by Michael Porter to the National Governors Association Winter Meeting on State Competitiveness. I’ll try and get the full text of his talk as soon as possible. Russ

Dr. Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School –

"How can we incent businesses to come to our state without resorting to "recruiting" and "tax breaks" because they don’t work. The goal should be to enhance competitiveness. You can’t create jobs, you can only improve the environment to make the state more productive and innovative. You don’t need lots of new money to do this, you need a business plan and you need to mobilize the private sector. It can’t be partisan. This is an issue of results, not political gain.

Part 1 video http://media.nga.org/WM2011/WM11SatPlenaryPart1.wmv

Part 2 video http://media.nga.org/WM2011/WM11SatPlenaryPart2.wmv

State Competitiveness:
Creating an Economic Strategy in a Time of Austerity http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/2011-0226_NGA_State_Competitiveness.pdf

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