Publications

18 Jul 2011
News

Google antitrust watchers: Place your bets, please

May 1995
Background Note

Note on Industry Self-Regulation and U.S. Antitrust Laws

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Describes the purpose and nature of industry self-regulation and outlines the factors self-regulatory groups must consider to avoid infringing U.S. antitrust laws. Several examples of industry self-regulation are discussed. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Knowledge; Law

July 1996 (Revised July 2009)
Background Note

Antitrust and Competitive Strategy from the 1990s to 2008 (Condensed)

Describes U.S. antitrust policy, including major judicial decisions and their impact on competitive strategy. Omits information on the history of antitrust policy and on the specific prohibitions of the various acts. View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; United States

1997
Chapter

Antitrust Constraints to Competitive Strategy

By: Dennis Yao

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

SUMMING UP Is antitrust just a quaint notion in the internet/Cloud age? What do you think? The lack of response to November’s column sends me a message: There appears to be less interest in antitrust issues... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

17 Oct 2022
News

When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation

June 1980
Article

The Experience Curve and Antitrust

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Law

November 1977
Background Note

Note on U.S. Antitrust Laws

29 Jun 2015
News

High-Profile Study Turns Up the Antitrust Heat on Google

Article

Roundtable Discussion: Business Strategy and Antitrust

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dennis Yao and Toby E. Stuart

Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy

June 1991 (Revised April 2008)
Case

Antitrust Movement: Perceptions and Reality in Coping with Big Business

A vehicle for the discussion of early antitrust legislation in the United States from 1890 to 1914. View Details

Keywords: Law; Monopoly; United States

October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
Background Note

Extraterritorial Applications of Antitrust Law: U.S. and Japanese Approaches

By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

This case describes the differebt approaches the United States and Japan have taken to extend the jurisdiction of their antitrust laws to foreign companies. The section on the United States, in particular, focuses on the evolving logic of the Supreme Court in dealing... View Details

Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Government Legislation; Policy; Business or Company Management; Government and Politics; Pulp and Paper Industry; United States; Japan

06 May 2025
Video

Jonathan Kanter on Big Tech, Antitrust Laws, and the Future of AI

February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law

By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns

For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other... View Details

Keywords: Lawfulness; Monopoly; Luxury; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; United States

06 May 2012
News

FTC Wants in on Google Antitrust Action

05 Sep 2010
News

Tech Revolution Spurts Debate over Antitrust Law

February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Lina Khan at the FTC: Redefining Antitrust in the Age of Big Tech

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Pinckney

In 2023 and 2024, the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice sued Google, Amazon, and Apple claiming antitrust violations. These lawsuits marked a shift in U.S. antitrust enforcement away from the Chicago School and towards the New Brandeis school of... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Monopoly; Technology Industry; United States; European Union; China; India

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