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Porter may refer to:

People[link]

• Porter (name), an English surname or given name

Occupations[link]

• Porter (carrier), person who carries objects
• Porter (college), member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Durham
• Porter (doorkeeper), one of the minor orders of the Roman Catholic ministry; doorkeeper or gatekeeper
• Porter (railroad), railroad employee who assists passengers
• Deal porter, dockworker specializing in handling baulks of softwood
• Doorman (profession)
• Groom Porter, official in charge of gambling in the Tudor court; the owner or operator of a gaming hall
• Kitchen Porter, a junior assistant position in the Brigade de cuisine of a commercial kitchen

Places[link]

Canada

• Porters Lake, Nova Scotia

United Kingdom

• Porter Brook, river in Sheffield, England

United States

• Malone-Porter, Washington
• Porter, California
• Porter, Indiana
• Porter, Maine
• Porter, Minnesota
• Porter, New York
• Porter, Oklahoma
• Porter, Texas
• Porter, West Virginia
• Porter, Wisconsin, a town
• Porter County, Indiana
• Porter Heights, Texas
• Porter's Mills, Wisconsin, a ghost town
• Porter Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Porter (MBTA station), at that square
• Porter Township, Michigan (disambiguation) (three places)
• Porter Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) (seven places)

Space

• Porter (lunar crater)
• Porter (Martian crater)

Other uses[link]

• Porter Assay, a method to measure proanthocyanidin (OPC) content of a sample
• Porter (band), Mexican indie band
• Porter (beer), type of beer
• Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto
• Porter Chemical Company, a defunct U.S. toy manufacturer of chemistry sets
• Porter College, residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Porter five forces analysis, framework for industry analysis and business strategy development
• Porter generic strategies
• Porter Motor Company, defunct U.S. car manufacturer
• Porter's Regiment, American Revolutionary War soldiers under a Colonel Porter
• H. K. Porter, Inc, a locomotive manufacturer
• Hyundai Porter, a pickup truck
• Miss Porter's School, in Farmington, Connecticut
• Piaggio Porter, electric van
• Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Swiss aircraft

See also[link]

• Port

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Gregory Porter is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor. His debut album, Water, released in 2010 via Motéma Music, was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.^[1] He was also a member of the original Broadway cast of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. His sophomore album, Be Good, which contains many of Porter's compositions, was released on February 14th, 2012, and garnered critical acclaim for both his distinctive singing and his compositions, such as "Be Good (Lion's Song), "Real Good Hands", and "On My Way To Harlem".

Biography[link]

Porter was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Bakersfield, California, where his mother was a minister. He attended San Diego State University on a football scholarship until a shoulder injury sidelined him permanently. Performing in local jazz clubs, Porter met saxophonist, pianist, and composer Kamau Kenyatta, whose mentoring played an integral role in Porter's career trajectory and professional development. Kenyatta introduced Gregory to flautist Hubert Laws who, upon hearing Porter singing along to Charlie Chaplin's "Smile", chose to include a bonus track featuring Porter's vocals on his Hubert Laws' Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (1998). Eloise Laws, Hubert's sister, happened to be visiting the studio, and helped get Porter cast in one of the leading roles in a new musical, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, which premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts before moving to Off-Broadway and ultimately Broadway, in spite of previously having appeared in only one other theatrical work, Avenue X.

He currently lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is a resident performer at Smoke Jazz and a frequent guest performer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has recorded with Nicola Conte. He has also appeared on Later... with Jools Holland on BBC2 (notably on Jools' 2011 New Year show, Hootenanny) and appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. At Christmas 2011, Gregory appeared on the TV show Carole King and Friends at Christmas on BBC Four; the show played in many other locations around the world.

Following his performance at London Jazz Voice, with his a cappella version of "Feeling Good" opening the 2011 London Jazz Festival, Gregory features on a 14-date tour of the UK (beginning May 2, 2012) as one of the special guests with Jools Holland and his Orchestra. Jamie Cullum is a supporter of Gregory and invited him to record a session for his BBC Radio 2 program and he was Gregory's special guest at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2012 (May 5), following a performance on May 4 on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night singing the songs of Ray Charles.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 2010: Water
• 2012: Be Good'

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.grammy.com/videos/gregory-porter-at-nominees-reception

External links[link]

• Official website
• Gregory Porter at Motéma Music
• Gregory Porter Booking Agent: RedFireMusic www.redfiremusic.co.uk

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Porter Robinson
Performing in January 2012.
Background information
Birth name	Porter Robinson
Born	(1992-07-15) July 15, 1992 (age 19)
Origin	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Genres	Complextro, Electro House, dubstep, Moombahton, trance, progressive house
Occupations	Producer, DJ, Musician
Years active	2010–present
Labels	OWSLA, Big Fish Recordings, Ministry Of Sound
Website	Porter Robinson Facebook Porter Robinson Twitter

Porter Robinson (born July 15, 1992) is an American electronic dance music producer and DJ from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He primarily produces in the electro house genre. He also named the genre complextro when he created the portmanteau to describe his own sound.^[1]

Biography[link]

Porter Robinson began producing at the age of 13 using Sony ACID Pro emulating sounds he heard from video games. He later began producing hands-up under the alias Ekowraith^[2] using FL Studio. It was at this time that Robinson became friends with a young Madeon, who was also producing hands-up under the name Deamon, and also using FL Studio.

Robinson primarily uses Lennard Digital Sylenth1, Native Instruments Massive, 3xOsc, Sytrus and several other commercial and free audio plugins.

He is currently 19 years old and recently graduated high school in his hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.^[3][4]

Music career[link]

He has released a variety of original singles on Glamara Records and Big Fish Recordings. His first single, "Say My Name", was an enormous success, landing at #1 on Beatport's Electro House chart.^[5][6] In the summer of 2011 he signed with OWSLA, a new label operated by Skrillex, to release his first EP entitled Spitfire. Spitfire reached the number one spot on the iTunes Dance chart as well as the number one spot on Beatport's overall release chart.

Porter has been commissioned for official remixes by Lady Gaga (Interscope Records), Avicii (Ministry of Sound),^[7] Spencer & Hill (Bazooka Records)^[8] and Innerpartysystem (Red Bull Records).^[9]

Touring[link]

As a DJ, he has toured internationally^[10] and performed alongside artists including Deadmau5, Tiesto, David Guetta, Skrillex, Diplo, Madeon, Moby, Afrojack, Above & Beyond, Dada Life, A-Trak, Gareth Emery and many more.

He performed at many major music festivals during 2011 including Ultra Music Festival,^[11] Electric Daisy Carnival (3 cities),^[12] Electric Zoo,^[13] South by Southwest,^[14] Global Dance Festival, Virgin Mobile FreeFest, Beyond Wonderland,^[15] Electric Forest and Nocturnal Festival.^[16]

Throughout February 2011, he appeared on the Project Blue Book Tour with Skrillex and Tommy Lee & DJ Aero.^[17]

In June and July 2011, he performed as direct support to Skrillex on the OWSLA tour.^[18]

In August 2011 he toured throughout Australia and New Zealand.^{[citation needed]}

In September and October 2011, he performed as direct support to Tiesto on his College Invasion tour of the United States and Canada.^[19] Following this, Porter began a run of headline dates across clubs in North America as part of "The Spitfire Tour".^[20]

In 2012 he is announced to play festivals including Festival Imperial, Coachella, Future Music Festival, Ultra Music Festival, and Lollapalooza, and performed a live Essential Mix that was broadcasted from Hull City Hall, January 28 on BBC Radio 1 during his first trip to the UK. During the set, he played a new, unreleased track called "Language" which was later released on April 10.

Discography[link]

EPs[link]

• Spitfire (2011)

Singles[link]

• "Leaving" (2010)
• "Get Brain" (2010)
• "Say My Name" (2010)
• "I'm On Fire" (2010)
• "Hello" (with Lazy Rich and Sue Cho) (2010)
• "The Wildcat" (2010)
• "Language" (2012)

Remixes[link]

• Picco , "Venga" (2010)
• Heiko & Maiko, "Wer Ist Sie?" (2010)
• Spencer & Hill, "Less Go" (2010)
• Tim Berg, "Seek Bromance" (2010)
• Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup, "We No Speak Americano" (2010)
• Innerpartysystem, "American Trash" (2011)
• Lady Gaga, "The Edge of Glory" (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Porter Robinson Beatport
• Porter Robinson Soundcloud
• Porter Robinson Twitter
• Porter Robinson Facebook
• Porter Robinson OWSLA
• Interview with Porter Robinson Immediately following his first show ever
• Porter Robinson FL Studio Power User page

Mat Zo
Background information
Birth name	Matan Zohar
Also known as	MRSA, MRZO
Born	(1990-04-30) April 30, 1990 (age 22)
Origin	London, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Progressive house/trance
Occupations	Musician, DJ
Instruments	Keyboards, mixer, synthesizer
Years active	2006-present
Labels	Anjunabeats, Hospital Records, Armada Music
Associated acts	Arty, Unripelemon, Reif
Website	www.matzomusic.com

Matan "Mat Zo" Zohar (born April, 1990) is a British trance music and progressive house music producer, composer and DJ.^[1]

Life and career[link]

The son of successful artist Israel Zohar, and half-brother of Israeli singer Alma Zohar, Matan Zohar was born in London, England in 1990. He was raised by his mother who was a professional violinist, who possessed staunch musical ethos and nurtured Matan's early love of--and prodigious inclination toward--music. From age one to eleven, Zohar and his family lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States. It was there at age 8 where his father presented young Zohar with a guitar as a gift.^[2] He returned at age 11 to London and continued pursuing his musical interests as a drummer and bassist as a member of a jazz and rock band respectively. However, Zohar became more interested in musical acts such as Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers, and his musical inclinations shifted to those of electronic dance music and DJing. After 3 years living and producing music in London, his recording began to gain attention and play time by other disc jockeys such as DJ Tarkan, Perry O'neil, Swedish Egil, DJ R-Man, Jav D, Micah, Airwave, Andy Moor and Markus Schulz^[3] In the 2009 publication of DJ Magazine's top 100 poll he was described by musical acts Above & Beyond, Lange and Daniel Kandi as a promising producer. In the 2010 publication, Mat Zo was a new entry at #66.^[4][5][6]

Productions :

• Mat Zo "Exodus" Original Mix / Relysis Remix
• Mat Zo "No Hassle" Original Mix / Progressexual Mix: Blue Room Project
• Mat Zo "Foot And Mouth EP"
• Mat Zo "Clovers & Acid / What's Left In My Snorty" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Rush / Defined" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Lucky Strike / Synapse Dynamics" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Aurus / The Price Of Oil" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Nuclear Fusion" Original Mix / Rex Mundi Remix
• Mat Zo "Equinox / Subaquatic Dream" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Fractal Universe / This Is Reality" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Default / Rush 2009" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Near The End / Land Of The Free" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "24 Hours" Original Mix / Oliver Smith Remix
• Mat Zo "24 Hours" Rank 1 Remix
• Mat Zo "The Lost / The Found" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo "Back In Time / Millenia" Original Mixes
• Arty & Mat Zo "Rebound" Original Mix / Radio Edit
• Mat Zo "Superman" Original Mix / Mike Koglin Remix
• Mat Zo "Frequency Flyer" Original Mix
• Arty & Mat Zo "Mozart" Original Mix / Radio Edit
• Mat Zo "Loop" The Essential Unreleased Mix
• Mat Zo "Bipolar / It's Yours / Ring On It / Yoyo Ma" Original Mixes
• Mat Zo feat. Linnea Schossow "The Sky" Club Mix / Extended Mix

Remixes[link]

• Lustral "In My Life" Mat Zo Dub
• Keenan & Anderson feat. Tiff Lacey "Runaway" Mat Zo Vocal Remix/Dub
• DJ Tiesto "Driving To Heaven" Mat Zo Remix
• Lange feat. Emma Hewitt "Live Forever" Mat Zo Remix
• Soliquid "Music Is For Rich People" Mat Zo Remix
• Waterspark "Fairway" Mat Zo Remix
• U2 "Beautiful Day" Mat Zo Remix
• Mark Pledger vs. Matt Hardwick feat. Melinda Gareh "Fallen Tides" Mat Zo Vocal Remix
• Activa pres. Solar Movement "Eclipse" Mat Zo Remix
• Signalrunners "Recoil" Mat Zo Remix
• Josh Gabriel pres. Winter Kills "Deep Down" Mat Zo Remix
• Sunny Lax "P.U.M.A." Mat Zo Remix
• Tritonal "Lifted" Mat Zo Remix
• Kyau & Albert "Be There 4 U" Mat Zo Remix
• Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford "Thing Called Love" Mat Zo Remix
• Judge Jules "City Nights" Mat Zo Remix
• Kylie Minogue "Get Outta My Way" Mat Zo Remix
• Tate & Diamond Feat. Nicolai "Electrified" Mat Zo Electrofied Dub
• Above & Beyond feat. Zoë Johnston "Love is not Enough" MRZO Remix

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mat Zo Official website
• Mat Zo Myspace profile
• Mat Zo Facebook page

Michael Eugene Porter
Born	(1947-05-23) May 23, 1947 (age 65) Ann Arbor, Michigan
Occupation	Author, Management Consultant

Michael Eugene Porter (born May 23, 1947)^[1] is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a leading authority on company strategy and the competitiveness of nations and regions. Michael Porter’s work is recognized in many governments, corporations and academic circles globally. He chairs Harvard Business School's program dedicated for newly appointed CEOs of very large corporations.

Early life[link]

Michael Eugene Porter received a B.S.E. with high honors in aerospace and mechanical engineering from Princeton University in 1969, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He received an M.B.A. with high distinction in 1971 from the Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University in 1973.

Porter was an outstanding intercollegiate golfer while at Princeton.

Career[link]

Michael Porter is the author of 18 books and numerous articles including Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Advantage of Nations, and On Competition. A six-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year, Professor Porter is the most cited author in business and economics.^[2]

Michael Porter’s core field is competition and company strategy. He is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field, and his ideas are taught in virtually every business school in the world. His work has also re-defined thinking about competitiveness, economic development, economically distressed urban communities, environmental policy, and the role of corporations in society.

Recently, Porter has devoted considerable attention to understanding and addressing the pressing problems in health care delivery in the United States and other countries. His book, Redefining Health Care (written with Elizabeth Teisberg), develops a new strategic framework for transforming the value delivered by the health care system, with implications for providers, health plans, employers, and government, among other actors. The book received the James A. Hamilton award of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2007 for book of the year. His New England Journal of Medicine research article, “A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System” (June 2009), lays out a health reform strategy for the U.S. His work on health care is being extended to address the problems of health care delivery in developing countries, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

In addition to his research, writing, and teaching, Porter serves as an advisor to business, government, and the social sector. He has served as strategy advisor to numerous leading U.S. and international companies, including Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Royal Dutch Shell, and Taiwan Semiconductor. Professor Porter serves on two public boards of directors, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Parametric Technology Corporation. Professor Porter also plays an active role in U.S. economic policy with the Executive Branch and Congress, and has led national economic strategy programs in numerous countries. He is currently working with the Presidents of Rwanda and South Korea.

Michael Porter has founded three major non-profit organizations: Initiative for a Competitive Inner City - ICIC^[3] in 1994, which addresses economic development in distressed urban communities; the Center for Effective Philanthropy, which creates rigorous tools for measuring foundation effectiveness; and FSG-Social Impact Advisors, a leading non-profit strategy firm serving NGOs, corporations, and foundations in the area of creating social value. He also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University.

In 2000, Michael Porter was appointed a Harvard University Professor, the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member.

Michael Porter is one of the founders of The Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm that came under scrutiny in 2011 for its past contracts with the Muammar Gaddafi-led regime in Libya and alleged failure to register its activities under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.^[4] He is a Senior Partner and Academic Director.

In 2009, he was awarded an honorary degree from McGill University.

His main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. He is also a Fellow Member of the Strategic Management Society. One of his most significant contributions is the five forces. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of:

• Competitive advantage
• Porter five forces analysis
• strategic groups (also called strategic sets)
• the value chain
• the generic strategies of cost leadership, product differentiation, and focus
• the market positioning strategies of variety based, needs based, and access based market positions
• global strategy
• Porter's clusters of competence for regional economic development
• Diamond model
• Porter's four corners model

Works[link]

Competitive Strategy

• Porter, M.E. (1979) "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy", Harvard Business Review, March/April 1979.
• Porter, M.E. (1980) Competitive Strategy, Free Press, New York, 1980. The book was voted the ninth most influential management book of the 20th century in a poll of the Fellows of the Academy of Management.^[5]
• Porter, M.E. (1985) Competitive Advantage, Free Press, New York, 1985.
• Porter, M.E. (ed.) (1986) Competition in Global Industries, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1986.
• Porter, M.E. (1987) "From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy", Harvard Business Review, May/June 1987, pp 43–59.
• Porter, M.E. (1996) "What is Strategy", Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996.
• Porter, M.E. (1998) On Competition, Boston: Harvard Business School, 1998.
• Porter, M.E. (1990, 1998) "The Competitive Advantage of Nations", Free Press, New York, 1990.
• Porter, M.E. (1991) "Towards a Dynamic Theory of Strategy", Strategic Management Journal, 12 (Winter Special Issue), pp. 95–117.
• McGahan, A.M. & Porter, M.E. Porter. (1997) "How Much Does Industry Matter, Really?" Strategic Management Journal, 18 (Summer Special Issue), pp. 15–30.
• Porter, M.E. (2001) "Strategy and the Internet", Harvard Business Review, March 2001, pp. 62–78.
• Porter, M.E. & Kramer, M.R. (2006) "Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility", Harvard Business Review, December 2006, pp. 78–92.
• Porter, M.E. (2008) "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy", Harvard Business Review, January 2008, pp. 79–93.

Domestic Health Care

• Porter, M.E. & Teisberg, E.O. (2006) "Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition On Results", Harvard Business School Press, 2006.
• Berwick, DM, Jain SH, and Porter ME. "Clinical Registries: The Opportunity For The Nation." Health Affairs Blogs, May 2011.

Global Health Care

• Jain SH, Weintraub R, Rhatigan J, Porter ME, Kim JY. "Delivering Global Health". Student British Medical Journal 2008; 16:27.[1]
• Kim JY, Rhatigan J, Jain SH, Weintraub R, Porter ME. "From a declaration of values to the creation of value in global health: a report from Harvard University's Global Health Delivery Project". Global Public Health. 2010 Mar; 5(2):181-8.
• Rhatigan, Joseph, Sachin H Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter. "Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-093, February 2009.

Criticisms[link]

Porter has been criticized by some academics for inconsistent logical argument in his assertions.^[6] Critics have also labeled Porter's conclusions as lacking in empirical support and as justified with selective case studies.^{[7][8][9][10]}

See also[link]

• Cluster development
• Competitive advantage
• Marketing strategies
• National Diamond
• Porter 5 forces analysis
• Strategic planning
• Strategic management
• Techno cluster

References[link]

External links[link]

• Michael Porter currently leads the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School
• Porter proposals for reforming the delivery of health care
• Summary Biography from Global Leaders
• Biography at Harvard Business School Faculty Pages
• Porter Prize
• Michael Porter's Author profile and bibliography from Shelfari
• Michael Porter's Thought Leader profile and bibliography from Monitor China
• Michael Porter's Talent profile from Monitor Talent