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- 2007
- Chapter
Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The concept of microeconomic competitiveness based on the frameworks developed by Michael Porter since 1990 are popular with policy makers interested in improving the attractiveness and economic performance of their countries and regions. This concept also has many... View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs." In Foreign Direct Investments, Location and Competitiveness. Vol. 2, edited by John Dunning and Philippe Gugler. Progress in International Business Research. Oxford: Elsevier, 2007.
- 20 Jun 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness Towards an Agenda for London
Regional competitiveness presentation delivered in London, U.K. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness Towards an Agenda for London." OneLondon Lecture, London, United Kingdom, June 20, 2003.
- 15 Jun 2012
- News
How Competition Can Encourage Unethical Business Practices
- July 1997 (Revised April 2000)
- Background Note
Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective
Describes the contributions of strategic concepts in the business world, and how they came to be influenced by competitive thinking. View Details
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 798-010, July 1997. (Revised April 2000.)
- TeachingInterests
Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
By: Andy Wu
In the fight for market leadership, your company must be able to build a winning strategy—and execute it seamlessly across multiple business lines. This program prepares you to identify and exploit sources of competitive advantage and implement game-changing... View Details
- March 2003 (Revised March 2011)
- Background Note
A Note on Antitrust and Competitive Tactics
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides an overview of antitrust law as it relates to competitive strategy. Discusses the problem of managing antitrust risk and provides a guide to business actions that pose antitrust risk. View Details
Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Risk Management; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
Yao, Dennis A. "A Note on Antitrust and Competitive Tactics." Harvard Business School Background Note 703-493, March 2003. (Revised March 2011.)
- 15 Dec 2005
- Other Presentation
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results." Dutch Health Care Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, December 15, 2005.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage
This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We... View Details
Halaburda, Hanna, and Yaron Yehezkel. "Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-066, February 2012.
- 22 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation
Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
competition is really the right medicine. "Competition in the ratings industry has been increasing, and there have been calls for yet more competition. Whether competition is likely to reduce quality or... View Details
- Research Summary
Competition and Collusion in Ocean Shipping
The liner shipping industry has been dominated by cartels since the late 19th century. Rich Sicotte's research builds on his 1997 Ph.D. thesis and employs analytical tools of industrial organization and economic history. He is examining the sources of variation in... View Details
- Research Summary
Competition between Derivatives Exchanges and Market Tipping
Examination of factors leading to market tipping in various episodes of competition between futures exchanges. Joint work with Estelle Cantillon. View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- News
This is how gerrymandering affects US competitiveness
- Research Summary
Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel
Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details
- Summer 2017
- Article
Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development
By: Daniel P. Gross
Performance feedback is ubiquitous in competitive settings where new products are developed. This article introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,294 commercial logo design tournaments, I... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Evaluation; Tournaments; Innovation; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Rank and Position; Product Development; Learning
Gross, Daniel P. "Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development." RAND Journal of Economics 48, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 438–466.
- Article
Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
We introduce a model in which agents in a network can trade via bilateral contracts. We find that when continuous transfers are allowed and utilities are quasi-linear, the full substitutability of preferences is sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes... View Details
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp. "Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks." Journal of Political Economy 121, no. 5 (October 2013): 966–1001.
- 1992
- Book
Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage
By: G. Jones and Charles Harvey
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
Jones, G. and Charles Harvey, eds. Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage. London: Frank Cass, 1992.
- June 2024
- Article
Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition
By: Zhuoqiong Charlie Chen, Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas
When experience goods compete, consuming one product can be informative about value for similar untried products. We study a two-period model of duopoly competition in markets that have this feature and where firms can price discriminate between consumers based on... View Details
Chen, Zhuoqiong Charlie, Christopher Stanton, and Catherine Thomas. "Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition." Management Science 70, no. 6 (June 2024): 3923–3950.
- Research Summary
Marketing and Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets
In his research on pharmaceutical markets, Professor King explores how marketing and product differentiation affect competition among firms in the prescription market for anti-ulcer drugs. Four main results emerge from an analysis of antiulcer drug sales from 1977 to... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- News