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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients

In this paper, we postulate a general class of price competition models with Mixed Multinomial Logit demand functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Income Characteristics; Price; Product Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Segmentation
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  • November 2006 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

SUN Brewing (B)

In July 2004, Shiv, Nand, and Uday Khemka are discussing their holdings in SUN Interbrew, a leading Russian beer producer that is part of the family's global portfolio of businesses. SUN Interbrew has been operating as a joint venture since 1998, when the Khemka... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Ownership Stake; Family Ownership; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia
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  • Article

Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson
We study how a commercial firm competes with a free open source product. The market consists of two customer segments with different preferences and is characterized by positive network effects. The commercial firm makes product and pricing decisions to maximize its... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Product Launch; Network Effects; Open Source Distribution; Adoption; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • 23 Jun 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

spring meeting earlier this month. "This is a place where we work hard, we are focused, we are cutting edge, for the public good," said Weinzierl, who is also the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration. During the Alumni Board's two-day... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project

respondents, respectively. This was consistent with findings that, among information sources, third-party product reviews are most trusted and company advertisements are least trusted. I learned that beauty brands must be deliberate about View Details
  • 26 Oct 2023

Life at HBS Chat in Sydney (In Person)

Join for a unique opportunity to hear from HBS alumni regarding their MBA experience. The Harvard Club of Australia will host a hybrid event and feature alumni who will share their backgrounds and talk about how they cultivated their... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

the case mentions the father’s long-standing relationship with the Vietnamese American franchise owners and the common sense of purpose and responsibility shared by the Vietnamese community as a whole. “None of these decisions are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 27 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

systems. If possible, it is advisable to assign an IT team member to the new employee, someone who will be responsible for ensuring they have quick, seamless access to all the resources they need as soon as they start (for example, by establishing and View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg
  • 2000
  • Book

Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Management; Social Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • Research Summary

Overview

In industries characterized by extreme dynamism, complexity, and uncertainty, formal structure often “falls behind” actual work processes. The nature of work in these environments evolves continuously while formal structure can only do so at specific times in discrete... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Identity; Identity Work; Strategy; Strategic Change; Collaboration; Cross-functional Integration; Cognition; Organizational Evolution; Organizational Alignment; Social Media
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

to accelerate the career paths of our members, and to grow female representation throughout the broader community. Below we share just a few of our many initiatives from this year that helped us achieve our goals: Annual Women Business... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

many industries, leaders have expressed frustration about the proliferation of patent thickets—the large number of overlapping awards—and the ensuing rise of costly and time-consuming litigation. In many cases, technology sharing has been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • Web

Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About

visitors. For example, sharing comments attributed to individual students or class guests is not allowed. As another example, photographs that include seating cards with student names should not be shared... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Software Tools - Research Computing Services

scripts , especially if one might be sharing scripts with other persons or when submitting research for publication. Module Naming and Versioning You can load specific versions by supplying the full module name: $ module load... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

percent more than when executives who share the political views of their colleagues depart. “The stock price drops a lot, suggesting that investors actually view these executives as very valuable and that those departures are not in the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

company executives, who “biked” there on their own machines. Executives and employees alike shared a devotion to motorcycle culture. Its outlook was improved by the 2017 tax cut that would have reduced its tax bill by $80 to $90 million.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

have-to-do tasks day after day, week after week, many couples carve out special time and space for certain want-to-do moments they enjoy together: They work in the gardens on Saturdays; they share a kiss on weekdays before heading to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

compared to any racial or ethnic demographic in the United States. 4. Latinos currently represent $1 trillion of spending while their market share continues to grow. I hope to use my education here to help change these statistics in my... View Details
  • Research Summary

Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

Professor Higgins has written... View Details