# Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics | HBR IdeaCast

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Published: 2026-06-17T22:30:00+00:00
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Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics | HBR IdeaCast 2 Feb 2023 --- Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and the founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, apply his Five Forces framework to explain why U.S. politics are dysfunctional. They argue that the Republican and Democratic parties make up an industry duopoly with high barriers to entry and low consumer power, and that the resulting lack of competition incentivizes these two dominant players to avoid compromises with majority support. Gehl and Porter provide specific innovations on how to enhance competition and better serve the public, including nonpartisan primary elections and ranked-choice voting. Gehl and Porter are coauthors of the new book The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy and the HBR article “Fixing U.S. Politics.” This episode originally aired on HBR IdeaCast on June 23, 2020. Listen to more HBR IdeaCast episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzAU8TPKsJuaxff5Cp0P2DKE_tFyaWOOa You can also listen to this episode on HBR.org, and wherever you listen to podcasts: - HBR.org (transcript available here): https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/06/applying-porters-five-forces-to-fix-u-s-politics - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/applying-porters-five-forces-to-fix-u-s-politics/id152022135?i=1000479254443 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5L9hmD68fRT92GSeXCPzHj?si=0484f40ff097400c - Stitcher: https://listen.stitcher.com/yvap/?af_dp=stitcher://episode/72136571&af_web_dp=https://www.stitcher.com/episode/72136571&deep_link_value=stitcher://episode/72136571 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmhhcnZhcmRid…

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