Publications

2023
Working Paper

LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry

By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández

LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; ＂Sports Organizations,; Business History; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry

March 1995 (Revised September 1996)
Case

Is the United States Competitive in the World Economy?

By: George C. Lodge and Marie Bell

Keywords: Economics; Competition; United States

Research Summary

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firm; Multinationals; Labor Market Discrimination

2014
Discussion Paper

Do High Feed-in Tariffs for Solar PV Panels Hinder Competition (Japanese)

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano

In Japan, feed-in-tariffs (FIT) are a key policy tool that has been deployed to produce the mass diffusion of photovoltaices (PV). In this study, we argue that this policy is unlikely to induce sustainable economic growth, which some use as a justification for FIT. We... View Details

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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) to Michael Porter ( press release ) 2003 Scholarly Contributions to Management Award from the Academy of Management 2002 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review... View Details

2009
Chapter

The Global Competitive Position of the Baltic Sea Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Trade; Baltic Countries

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their value proposition, they tap into the potential for a competitive advantage that is more sustainable versus competitors than conventional cost and quality advantages. Whole Foods, the most economically... View Details

2015
Working Paper

The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman

Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general (NTU) case and uniqueness in the TU... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Game Theory

August 8, 2011
Blog Post

IBM at 100: How to Outlast Depression, War, and Competition

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Economics; War; Competition; Computer Industry

1993
Chapter

Kokusai Marketing to Kyousou Senryaku (International Marketing and Competitive Strategy)

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Trade

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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications... View Details

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

countries as part of his pioneer work on the competitiveness of nations. Many have lauded Porter’s pioneering efforts and strategy, but I personally believe his connecting to the larger social and environmental well-being upon which all... View Details

2001
Other Unpublished Work

Clusters of Innovation Initiative: San Diego

By: Michael E. Porter

The study contains a conceptual framework for assessing the competitiveness of regional economies, an analysis of the San Diego region overall, as well as detailed assessments of two representative clusters—biotechnology/pharmaceuticals and communications. The report... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Communications Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Diego

October 2016
Supplement

Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)

By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman

The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of... View Details

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Article

Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details

Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

partner only hours away that can transform its competitive position? In order for such opportunities to be realized, however, the business community of the Middle East must begin to assume more responsibility for the View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

12 Sep 2003
Other Presentation

Massachusetts’ Competitive Position in Life Sciences: Where Do We Stand?

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development

Article

California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer

In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Policy; United States