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- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
is that people who should be allies are at cross-purposes with each other." The US Competitiveness Project put forth this definition: "The United States is a View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 2016
- Report
Review of Competitiveness Frameworks: An Analysis Conducted for the Irish National Competitiveness Council
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The report reviews recent research on competitiveness as well as the use of competitiveness frameworks applied in leading international competitiveness rankings and in national competitiveness assessments. The report includes four main parts: The initial chapter... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Review of Competitiveness Frameworks: An Analysis Conducted for the Irish National Competitiveness Council." Report, Dublin, Ireland, April 2016.
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Following the BP/Amoco merger in December 1998, CFO David Watson asked Bill Young to recommend when and under what circumstances the firm should use external project finance instead of internal corporate funds to finance new capital investments. As part of this... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance." Harvard Business School Case 201-054, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- Web
Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Sample Student Projects MOC Student Projects on Country & Cluster View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
our research, a diverse group of leaders stands ready to support Washington in this effort." DRIVING FORCE: The US Competitiveness Project took to the road in November with a... View Details
- Web
U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents
- September 2000 (Revised November 2021)
- Background Note
Using Aggregate Project Planning to Link Strategy, Innovation, and the Resource Allocation Process
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Links two very useful pieces of management research--resource allocation processes as studied by Bowen and Burgelman and the aggregate project plan expounded by Wheelwright and Clark. View Details
Christensen, Clayton M. "Using Aggregate Project Planning to Link Strategy, Innovation, and the Resource Allocation Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 301-041, September 2000. (Revised November 2021.)
- May 2023
- Article
Competition in Pricing Algorithms
By: Zach Y. Brown and Alexander J. MacKay
We document new facts about pricing technology using high-frequency data, and we examine the implications for competition. Some online retailers employ technology that allows for more frequent price changes and automated responses to price changes by rivals. Motivated... View Details
Keywords: Pricing Algorithms; Pricing Frequency; Commitment; Online Competition; Price; Information Technology; Competition
Brown, Zach Y., and Alexander J. MacKay. "Competition in Pricing Algorithms." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 15, no. 2 (May 2023): 109–156.
- Article
Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing
By: Joel Goh and Nicholas G. Hall
We consider projects with uncertain activity times and the possibility of expediting, or crashing, them. Activity times come from a partially specified distribution within a family of distributions. This family is described by one or more of the following details about... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Time And Cost Control; Robust Optimization; Satisficing; Linear Decision Rule; PERT; Management; Cost Management; Projects
Goh, Joel, and Nicholas G. Hall. "Total Cost Control in Project Management via Satisficing." Management Science 59, no. 6 (June 2013): 1354–1372.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Harvard Business School today released "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided," a comprehensive analysis of the state of US competitiveness in 2016, based on five years of the View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Harvard study show US losing competitive edge
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US Competitiveness Surveys RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey... View Details
- December 2006 (Revised May 2009)
- Background Note
Project Finance Acronyms
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Contains two parts: Part I contains a list of more than 500 acronyms for official institutions and other project finance terms; Part II contains a description of various interest and debt coverage ratios used in the field of project finance. View Details
Esty, Benjamin C. "Project Finance Acronyms." Harvard Business School Background Note 207-086, December 2006. (Revised May 2009.)
- October 2002 (Revised April 2007)
- Background Note
Project Finance Glossary
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Description: This glossary contains a list of almost 1,000 definitions for terms commonly used in the field of project finance. View Details
Keywords: Project Finance
Esty, Benjamin C. "Project Finance Glossary." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-040, October 2002. (Revised April 2007.)
- March 2014
- Article
Search Diversion and Platform Competition
By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion... View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Platform Competition; Competition; Two-Sided Platforms
Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Search Diversion and Platform Competition." International Journal of Industrial Organization 33 (March 2014): 48–60.
- Mar 2012
- Article
Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us
The world is interdependent, and the U.S. economy is still too large for anyone to profit from a rapid decline in its well-being. View Details
- February 1975 (Revised November 1986)
- Background Note
Note on the Use of Experience Curves in Competitive Decision Making
Describes the experience curve concept, details of its application, uses in competitive analysis, and a number of caveats and limitations. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making
Hammond, John S. "Note on the Use of Experience Curves in Competitive Decision Making." Harvard Business School Background Note 175-174, February 1975. (Revised November 1986.)