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- 2014
- Working Paper
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery
By: George Serafeim
Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that the most significant impact was on employee morale, followed by business relations, and then reputation and...
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Keywords:
Competitiveness;
Corruption;
Bribery;
Employee Engagement;
Reputation;
Regulation;
Competition;
Crime and Corruption;
Ethics;
Performance
Serafeim, George. "Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-012, July 2013. (Revised February 2014, April 2014.)
- March 1990
- Article
The Effects of Brand Loyalty on Competitive Price Promotional Strategies
By: R. Lal, J. S. Raju and V. Srinivasan
Lal, R., J. S. Raju, and V. Srinivasan. "The Effects of Brand Loyalty on Competitive Price Promotional Strategies." Management Science 36, no. 3 (March 1990). (Nominated for John D. C. Little Award Given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science presented by INFORMS Society for Marketing Science.)
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the...
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- March 2022
- Article
Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns
By: Marco Bertini, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer and Don Lehmann
This article studies how organizations should design a product by choosing the carbon footprint and price in a market with climate concerns. The authors first show how the cost and demand effects of reducing the product carbon footprint determine the profit-maximizing...
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Keywords:
Carbon Footprint;
Carbon Offsetting;
Climate Impact;
Net-zero Emissions;
Pricing;
Climate Change;
Product Design;
Price;
Environmental Sustainability;
Marketing
Bertini, Marco, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer, and Don Lehmann. "Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns." Journal of Marketing 86, no. 2 (March 2022): 186–201.
- May 2014
- Article
Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry
By: Timothy Bresnahan and Shane Greenstein
Competition to become one of several dominant mobile platforms is intense. Platforms compete for developers, who create applications which make the platform valuable for users. Why doesn't one form of platform governance emerge as superior? This essay will stress the...
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Bresnahan, Timothy, and Shane Greenstein. "Mobile Computing: The Next Platform Rivalry." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 104, no. 5 (May 2014): 475–480.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
platform from Art Technology Group, then in its infancy. This inherent flexibility has helped the platform age gracefully. Even after five years in use, a student team’s evaluation in the fall of 2000...
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- October 2013 (Revised December 2013)
- Case
Intuit QuickBooks: From Product to Platform
By: Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth J. Altman
This case focuses on the challenges and opportunities faced by a successful incumbent organization attempting to transform a large portion of its business from a traditionally product-centric operating mode to a platform-based one that leverages network effects to...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Network Effects;
Consumer Products Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman. "Intuit QuickBooks: From Product to Platform." Harvard Business School Case 714-433, October 2013. (Revised December 2013.)
- Research Summary
Competing on a Common Platform
Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development...
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- Awards
Case Centre Awards and Competitions. Outstanding Case Writer
Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Case Writer Competition Award for “Hometown Foods: Changing Price Amid Inflation” (HBS Case 522-087, March 2022) with Jeremy Yang and Das Narayandas.
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- 1999
- Article
When and How Is the Internet Likely to Decrease Price Competition
By: R. Lal and M. Sarvary
Lal, R., and M. Sarvary. "When and How Is the Internet Likely to Decrease Price Competition." Marketing Science 18, no. 4 (1999): 485–503. (Nominated for John D. C. Little Award Given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science presented by INFORMS Society for Marketing Science.)
- August 2007
- Module Note
Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module
Offers an overview of conceptual content and pedagogical guidance for instructors using a six-session module, "Platform Evolution," from "Managing Networked Businesses" (MNB), a case-based MBA elective course on platform-mediated networks. The module explores the...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Networks;
Business or Company Management;
Rights;
Business Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Multi-Sided Platforms;
Market Transactions;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Competition;
Market Entry and Exit
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module." Harvard Business School Module Note 808-063, August 2007.
- July–August 2016
- Article
Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets
By: Ayelet Israeli, Eric Anderson and Anne Coughlan
Manufacturers in many industries frequently use vertical price policies, such as minimum advertised price (MAP), to influence prices set by downstream retailers. Although manufacturers expect retail partners to comply with MAP policies, violations of MAP are common in...
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Keywords:
Pricing Policies;
Pricing;
Channel Management;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Price;
Governance Compliance;
Marketing Channels;
Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet, Eric Anderson, and Anne Coughlan. "Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets." Marketing Science 35, no. 4 (July–August 2016): 539–564. (Lead article.)
- 13 Oct 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Pricing Liquidity: The Quantity Structure of Immediacy Prices
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Intuit QuickBooks: From Product to Platform
By: Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth J. Altman
This case focuses on the challenges and opportunities faced by a successful incumbent organization attempting to transform a large portion of its business from a traditionally product-centric operating mode to a platform-based one that leverages network effects to...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
By: Ke Rong, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou and Feng Zhu
Many jurisdictions have launched antitrust enforcement and brought in regulation of large tech platforms. The swift and strict implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Platform Economy (Platform Guidelines) provides a quasi-natural experiment...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Venture Capital;
Market Entry and Exit;
Supply and Industry;
China
Rong, Ke, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou, and Feng Zhu. "Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-039, January 2024.
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small...
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by Benson P. Shapiro
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside...
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by Julia Hanna
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition
By: Marco Iansiti
Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to...
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Keywords:
Online Platforms;
Data Network Effects;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value;
Competition;
Digital Platforms
Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.
- November 2011
- Article
Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis
By: Tanjim Hossain, Dylan B. Minor and John Morgan
Platform competition is ubiquitous, yet platform market structure is little understood. Theory models typically suffer from equilibrium multiplicity—platforms might coexist or the market might tip to either platform. We use laboratory experiments to study the outcomes...
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Keywords:
Platform Competition;
Two-Sided Markets;
E-commerce;
Competition;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Monopoly
Hossain, Tanjim, Dylan B. Minor, and John Morgan. "Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis." Management Science 57, no. 11 (November 2011): 1913–1925.
- Article
Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms
In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to transact with each other. A fundamental design decision for firms that aspire to develop...
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Keywords:
Governance Controls;
Digital Platforms;
Infrastructure;
Competition;
Cooperation;
Information Infrastructure
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms." California Management Review 50, no. 4 (Summer 2008).