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  • April 2008
  • Supplement

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
In late November 2000, Chung Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, was headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details
Keywords: State Ownership; Jobs and Positions; Monopoly; Privatization; Competition; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Labor and Management Relations; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Price; Status and Position; Telecommunications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Taiwan
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  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

monopoly platform when the degree of horizontal differentiation between platforms is intermediate (low). On the other hand, more intense competition between active platforms (i.e., less differentiation) leads to less search diversion.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

director to serve as a liaison between the other board members and the CEO. As clear-cut as these subjects may seem, the underlying question, as Lorsch sees it, is far more complex: What is the broader mandate of business in the context of today's society? "Nobody has... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

ordinary citizens have the ability to shift the balance of power in positive ways that can encourage innovative ideas to be developed into practical goods and services. "Washington, DC does not have a monopoly on the best... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

diversion relative to competition for consumers. Both types of competition lead to at least as much search diversion as a monopoly platform. Nevertheless, in the case of competing platforms, the equilibrium level of search diversion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

for each firm in the duopoly medium to bundle more ads and earn greater total profits than the rival firm in the monopoly medium. Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors:Lisa D. Ordonez,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

are sufficiently large, a pure-strategy equilibrium exists where both B firms are active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the monopoly Firm A may earn lower profits in this environment. Consequently,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

limitations and judo economics, natural monopoly and the effect of market size, technology choice as entry deterrence, endogenous economies of scale, and capacity limitation in commodity markets. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell system, back in the days before the... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 22 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

situations and make decisions that have a profound impact on people and organizations. These realizations constituted my “second calling” – to come to HBS in pursuit of the same opportunities for impact and service that had called me to the Army. The military does not... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

two-sided proprietary (closed) platforms connecting consumers and producers. Proprietary platforms create two-sided deadweight losses through monopoly pricing but at the same time, precisely because they set prices in order to maximize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Development, Organizational Behavior, and General Management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-414 Enel: The Future of Energy Enel has transformed from the Italian state-owned energy View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

other circumstances do you pay the most but get the least?” he asks, referencing California’s high tax rate and overloaded public services. “Any HBS student would tell you that’s a monopoly supplier. If we had six states, each would try... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

process by getting in the way of Schumpeter's "creative destruction." Read the journal: http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/74 Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism Authors: Niall Ferguson Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

telecom company. At the time, Jazztel was near bankruptcy and needed a capital injection to finish the year. Over the next 10 years, Fernández Pujals led the restructuring of Jazztel's debt, reached an agreement with the former monopoly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

strategies. "Few Asian countries have done this," Porter commented, citing chronic problems such as inadequate infrastructure, skilled human resource shortages, deficiencies in science and technology, and lingering monopolies that have... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

soil of foreign powers, with prices set by an international cartel, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Arguably half of this money is nothing more than a ransom (a monopoly profit above competitive prices) that we... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of patents covered by the standard to make a loose commitment to grant licenses on reasonable terms. Such commitments unsurprisingly are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

expectations can be formed, which correspond to two different types of users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

and Consumer Expectations Authors:Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti Abstract This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace