Author

Books by Joan Magretta

Joan Magretta is a former partner at McKinsey & Company and a longtime senior fellow at Harvard Business School. She served as editor of the Harvard Business Review and worked closely with Michael Porter for many years. Her other books include What Management Is, a guide to management fundamentals. Magretta is known for her ability to translate academic strategy frameworks into clear, usable terms for practicing managers. Understanding Michael Porter has become a standard companion to Porter's original texts in MBA curricula.