The Vietnamese economy is like an airplane which is set to fly much higher thanks to its people’s good qualities...

Wherever capitalism goes, management gurus are sure to follow. So it was that Harvard’s Michael Porter – the man behind the value chain and other business insights – visited Vietnam this week. In a sign of the times, he spoke at one session sponsored by the Financial Times, and another by the Communist party.

Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter said a strong press was a key plank in exposing and preventing corruption. “Corruption could make any country’s progress come to a complete stop,” Porter told the Global Competitiveness and Competitive Advantages of Vietnam conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday.

A series on the world’s most renowned entrepreneurs ranging from US car manufacturer Henry Ford to Sony co-founder Akio Morita line a bookcase in a classroom at the Ho Chi Minh City-based PACE Institute for Directors.

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Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers his long-awaited, essential guide to marketing for managers, freshly written based on his phenomenally successful worldwide lectures on marketing for the new millennium.

The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does

Now beyond its 11th printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter's groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America.

Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker has been analyzing economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of the organization, the individual, and society, there is The Essential Drucker -- an invaluable compilation of management essentials from the works of a management legend.

Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, an authority on competitiveness of nations and regions, spoke exclusively to Tuoi Tre about what Vietnam should do to switch to the next stage of development

VietNamNet Bridge – From the angle of the national competition strategy, if Vietnam copies China’s model and relies on a cheap labor force, it will not be likely to succeed. Vietnam should open its doors and turn ASEAN into its market, according Professor Michael Porter, the father of the competition strategy, who is paying a working visit to Vietnam.

The most valuable asset of businesses nowadays is human resources (HR) not production materials as it used to be in the 20th century.