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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
profitability of whole markets.— Benson P. Shapiro Make Your Price This is perhaps most true in pricing, a particularly vexing challenge in today's hypercompetitive marketplace. Major customers exert enormous pressure to force suppliers... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Mac. To overcome that, we put together a task force led by a fantastic owner-operator out of Arizona and she said, let's see, let's see how we do this. What would it take, what would we have to change in terms of our procedures, our... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
because it was the only work she could find. When I moved over at five years old, I didn’t know what sacrifice meant but I knew that a lot had been given up for us to be there. Only years later did I hear the stories of how my mom rented... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
As economies reopen after forced shutdowns caused by COVID-19, managers around the world are faced with a dual challenge: keep the workforce safe while preserving business viability in an evolving and volatile market. How should... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could.... View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
This chapter reviews the main theories in strategic management that seek to explain persistent differences in profitability across companies. We argue that these differences are ultimately explained by market imperfections. Studying differences in financial performance... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Management; Market Imperfections; Five Forces Framework; Competitive Advantage; Profit
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Chap. 12 in Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, by Christopher R. Thomas and William F. Shughart II, 262–277. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
primaries with a single, nonpartisan primary that uses the same ballot for all voters. The top five finishers then advance to the general election. The second step involves implementing ranked-choice voting in the general election. By... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host countries to build and run major infrastructure... View Details
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Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers
By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
In a repeated game setting of a vertically related industry, we study the collusive effects of vertical mergers. We show that any vertical merger facilitates upstream collusion, no matter how large (in terms of capacity or size of product portfolio) the integrated... View Details
Nocke, Volker, and Lucy White. "Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers." International Journal of Industrial Organization 28, no. 4 (July 2010): 350–354.
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject of our previous book): mobilize, translate, align,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- November 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
The Last DVD Format War?
By: Andrei Hagiu
Provides a brief overview of the standards battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, focusing on the events that precipitated the Blu-ray victory in early 2008. View Details
Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Standards; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Hardware; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry
Hagiu, Andrei. "The Last DVD Format War?" Harvard Business School Case 710-443, November 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Live Nation Faces the Music
By: Stephen P. Bradley, Frank Cespedes and Kerry Herman
In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music industry and the increasing power of the major artists. As the music business once again recreates itself in response to new... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Music Entertainment; Five Forces Framework; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; Service Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., Frank Cespedes, and Kerry Herman. "Live Nation Faces the Music." Harvard Business School Case 709-441, January 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
- February 2002 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Volvo Trucks (C): Closing Volvo Global Trucks
By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Truck Transportation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Europe
Porter, Michael E., and Orjan Solvell. "Volvo Trucks (C): Closing Volvo Global Trucks." Harvard Business School Case 702-444, February 2002. (Revised May 2006.)
- February 2002 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Volvo Trucks (A): Penetrating the U.S. Market
By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
Volvo Trucks has worked on a global strategy for several decades. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the company decided to enter the largest market for trucks: the United States. Over time, the company has struggled to get a significant share of the U.S. market and at the... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Truck Transportation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Europe
Porter, Michael E., and Orjan Solvell. "Volvo Trucks (A): Penetrating the U.S. Market." Harvard Business School Case 702-418, February 2002. (Revised February 2006.)
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
most enduring contributions.” — Peter M Senge Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management “Professor Porter has been, and still is, the most influential global thinker on Strategy. His contributions are numerous and as relevant today as when he first developed them. The... View Details
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the best article in Harvard Business Review , “From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy” 1979 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review , “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” See all of Michael View Details