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Jun 2020
22m 52s

Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S...

Harvard Business Review
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Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and the founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, apply his Five Forces framework to explain why U.S. politics are dysfunctional. They argue that the Republican and Democratic parties make up an industry duopoly with high barriers to entry and low consumer power ... Show More
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