Reviews
Thomas A. Piraino, Jr., Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Parker-Hannifin Corporation
“Michael Porter's economic analysis can revolutionize the way we think about markets and competition. Business executives, antitrust practitioners and anyone who cares about the economic organization of our society can gain valuable insights from Charles Weller's collection of some of Michael Porter's most original thinking. Mr. Weller's summaries and commentaries will be an invaluable aid to any interested reader.”
Ky Ewing, Chair, American Bar Association Antitrust Section 2000-2001; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
“Unique Value: Competition Based on Innovation Creating Unique Value …is a book to be relished by thoughtful people who want to explore new dimensions of the competitive process, the very nature of which is changing as the ‘knowledge economy’ innovatively expands.”
Terry Calvani, Former Commissioner, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Member & Director of Cartel Division, The Competition Authority of Ireland
"[T]he work of Michael Porter" is an “antidote to the conventional welfare economics that has served as the foundation for modern competition policy for the last thirty years.”
Alain C. Enthoven, Mariner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“With ‘Science Teams By Disease When Ill,’ Chuck Weller is truly propounding a Copernican revolution for healthcare. This new model has doctors, hospital personnel and others in the care process working together to improve quality and efficiency across institutional and professional boundaries. It is new and obviously raises many new questions, but it makes possible clear accountability of teams for quality and outcomes, something that doesn’t exist or barely exists today.”
“This is very important and greatly needed.”
Miles J. Zaremski, Esq., Immediate Past President, American College of Legal Medicine, Partner, Kamensky & Rubinstein, Chicago, Illinois:
“Charles Weller has done a masterful job in bringing together innovative and proactive thought in economic and legal terms. …‘Science Teams By Disease When” is a real and workable alternative to managed care, a real catalyst to those readers who wish to find pragmatic solutions to the dilemma in healthcare by making them seriously "think out of the box."
Maxwell Mehlman, Professor of Law and Bioethics, Director of the Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University
“Weller’s bold new approach on how to pay for and deliver healthcare services is as creative as it is timely. This is exactly the kind of ingenuity that we need to get ahead of the growing crises in cost and coverage.”
About the Authors
Michael E. Porter
Michael Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (a University Professor is the highest professional recognition given to a Harvard faculty member); he is the author of 16 books and over 100 articles including Competitive Strategy (1980) that is now in its 58th printing; Competitive Advantage (1985), in its 34th printing; The Competitive Advantage of Nations (1990), used throughout the world to guide economic development; co-author and co-chair of the annual Global Competitiveness Report; co-author with Scott Stern of The New Challenge to America's Prosperity (1999), co-author of Can Japan Compete?, which challenges long-held views about the sources of Japan's economic miracle and offers a new path for that nation's future. His ideas on strategy are taught at virtually every business school in the world, and his new annual course on the microeconomics of economic development and competitiveness was taught in 2004 via the web at 40 universities around the world. Prof. Porter received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1973, an MBA from Harvard in 1971, and a B.S.E in engineering from Princeton in 1969.
Peter Staudhammer
Peter Staudhammer was the chief engineer for the rocket engine that landed Neil Armstrong on the moon and that was used to rescue Jim Lovell and Apollo 13 (see the cover to Part 3); was an engineer for TRW Inc. for more than 40 years, and retired as TRW’s Chief Science and Technology Officer with 17,000 engineers and other scientists world-wide in 2002. He has a Ph.D in chemical engineering, is on the visiting committee to five U.S. engineering schools, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Scott Stern
Scott Stern is an Associate Professor in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a Faculty Research Fellow and a co-organizer of the Innovation Policy and the Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor of Management Science, and co-author with Michael Porter of The New Challenge to America's Prosperity (1999). He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford in 1996, and his BA in Economics from New York University.
Charles D. Weller
Charles Weller is an antitrust, healthcare and litigation attorney with over 30 years experience with Jones Day, Baker & Hostetler and the Ohio Attorney General's Antitrust Division. His B.A. is from Yale in 1966 and J.D. from C.W.R.U. in 1973, and has published extensively on antitrust, healthcare and litigation subjects including "An Evolution of Merger-JV Analysis" in American Bar Association, Perspectives on Fundamental Antitrust Theory (2001); "Antitrust Economics as Science After Daubert," 42 Antitrust Bulletin 871 (1998); Guest Editor, "Symposium: New Foundations for Joint Ventures and Antitrust," 44 Antitrust Bulletin 785-1078 (1999), and "Harmonizing Antitrust Worldwide by Evolving to Michael Porter’s Dynamic Productivity Growth Analysis," 46 Antitrust Bulletin 879 (2002). He taught math and physics in the Peace Corps in Malaysia in the 1960s. He recently founded and is the CEO of Next Generation Healthcare, LLC.
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