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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

economic geography and has become the standard in the U.S., Europe, and a growing number of other countries. His theories are widely applied by both government policymakers and economic development practitioners globally. Since 2011, as co-chair of the multiyear,... View Details

15 Nov 2012
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U.S. Economy Faces Challenges But Optimism Remains

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health... View Details

17 Jul 2012
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Job creation and keeping the United States competitive

15 Feb 2000
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Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the stratosphere. While the View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Business School talks about the challenges business in the U.S. is facing, including political gridlock in Washington and an ever-deepening skills shortage. July 2013 Other Publication "American View Details

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

shorter amount of time... 18 July 2019 Media Mention American College of Surgeons and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Partner to Develop Value Measurement Tool for Hospitals American College of... View Details

26 May 2003
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What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... January 2020 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems Integration and Growth by... View Details

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Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu

Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details

Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Winners & Runners-Up 2024 Winners Play Crop Diagnostix: Dubilier Grand Prize Winner, Student Business Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:31 2024 New Venture Competition Winner,... View Details

19 Apr 2014
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How U.S. is lagging on quality of life

18 Feb 2020
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Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

July 2002 (Revised September 2002)
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Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002 (Abridged)

By: Tarun Khanna

In early 2002, Japan, the world's largest economy, had been mired in a decade-long recession. A range of stimulus packages had failed to work their magic. The "Big Bang" financial deregulation reforms announced in 1998 had not quite produced the economic boom that the... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Financial Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan

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14 Sep 2015
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Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

"strategic service vision" companies must adopt. Leading a breakthrough service—one that alters the basis of competition in entire industries—is different. Those that have done it understand things that their competitors’... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

11 Sep 2012
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Harvard’s ‘wise men’ tell Silicon Valley: Our country is losing its competitiveness

27 Feb 2015
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Why U.S. Firms Are Dying: Failure To Innovate

20 Sep 2016
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Porter: U.S. Political System Is Structured to Divide

20 Dec 2004
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The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

07 Mar 2013
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