Position: Secretary - Commerce

Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation    

Michael Porter

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Nominee's Background: The legendary Michael Porter is the C.Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness. At only the age of 26, Porter was one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvards history. He has advised U.S. Congress, leading trade organizations, and business groups, and international leaders. Many consider Porter the greatest business thinker of our era. His research focuses on competitive strategy, international competitiveness, the relationship between competition and society, and the relationship between competitiveness and the natural environment. He is the author of 16 books and over 75 articles including Competitive Strategy (1980); Competitive Advantage (1985); The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), On Competition (1998). He continues to play an active role in U.S. economic policy. He has led major studies of the economy for various countries. He is the recipient of numerous awards. He received a B.S.E. in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1969, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1973. Nominating Speech: As the best thinker and strategist for Business in our times, Michael Porter should be on everyones list regardless of one's political bias for Secretary of Commerce. To research this nominee, please look for them on the Wikipedia website or at Google.

Progressive Criteria: The Department of Commerce will: Promote commerce to enhance citizens' lives, not simply to enrich investors; Promote decent, well-paying, environmentally sustainable jobs; Take the initiative in developing a Genuine Progress Indicator to replace GDP which does not adequately distinguish between good growth and destructive trends; Work to provide new guarantees for pension security; Support very small businesses, minority and women-owned businesses; Direct and manage the patent and trademark system to promote the common good by promoting valuable inventions, research and intellectual exchangee, as a higher priority than protecting corporate profits.

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