Joan Magretta

Updated at: Jan. 4, 2013, 12:40 a.m.

Joan Magretta is a Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Her work with Professor Porter began in the early 1990s when she was the strategy editor at the Harvard Business Review.

Prior to joining HBR, Dr. Magretta was a partner at the management consulting firm of Bain & Co. Her recent book, What Management Is (2002), reflects her career-long interest in the intersection between strategy and general management. In 1998, she won the McKinsey Award given each year for the best article to appear in HBR. She has also written for the Sloan Management Review.

Before getting her MBA at Harvard Business School in 1983, Magretta was a university professor in the humanities. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with an MA from Columbia and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.