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While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which featured an American League... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

December 2022 (Revised November 2023)
Module Note

How Do You Compete and Cooperate? Understanding Strategic Interactions

By: Jorge Tamayo

This module examines how firms interact strategically, both competitively and cooperatively, as they create and capture value. Although the module focuses on strategic interactions between competitors, an organization's relationships with buyers, suppliers, and... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

Want to be different? Change your world, not your tactics. As HBS professor Youngme Moon argues in Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, competition too often breeds conformity. Yet there is plenty of space for adventurous companies keen to break free of the pack.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Aug 2024
News

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

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Chapter

The Capital Factor: Competing for Capital in a Global Environment

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Capital; Competitive Advantage

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May 2001
Article

Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese History

By: Mariko Sakakibara and Michael E. Porter

The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market-share instability rather than employing structural variables such as... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Global Range; History; Japan

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February 2011 (Revised March 2012)
Course Overview Note

Competing through Business Models: Introductory Note for Students (Half-Course Version)

By: Hanna Halaburda and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy

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10 Mar 2013
News

The Surprising Reasons Why America Lost Its Ability To Compete

26 Apr 2017
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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Case

Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell

The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland

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