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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance is a study into the world of business and how firms can improve their performance. Ideal for business strategists, the book delves into Porter’s ideas on the value chain and how it can break a company into activities. Porter explains how strategy as a global vision can only be achieved by breaking up a large goal into several internally consistent activities, and driving the company through the value chain mechanism. In addition, he describes how managers can become empowered to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value, commanding a premium price. It is an indispensable reference for anyone wishing to give their business the global boost needed to gain a competitive advantage over others. About Michael Porter Michael Eugene Porter is an American strategist and the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, at the Harvard Business School. A graduate of Princeton University, where he studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School and pursued his Ph.D. at Harvard University, studying business economics. A prolific writer, Dr. Porter has also written: Competition in Global Industries, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, and Competition in Global Industries. Dr. Porter received the title of Harvard University Professor, the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member as well as an honorary degree from McGill University.