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Strategy - Doctoral

Yoffie Shunyuan Zhang Current HBS Faculty & Students by Interest Big data Alberto F. Cavallo Competitive advantage Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Cynthia A. Montgomery Jan W. Rivkin Eric View Details
  • September 2021 (Revised March 2024)
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Tesla in 2023: 'Electrified' Competition

By: Eric Van den Steen, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
Over its 17 years in existence, Tesla had redefined people’s view of electric cars, and in 2020, the company saw its stock rise by more than 700% to became the most valuable carmaker in the world. In December 2020, Tesla celebrated its fifth consecutive quarter of... View Details
Keywords: Barrier To Entry; Competitive Advantage; Innovation; Tesla; Automotive Industry; Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Values; Vision; Learning By Doing; Economies Of Scale; Electric Vehicle; Scenario Planning; Batteries; Competitive Strategy; Product Positioning; Profit; Competition; Industry Growth; Auto Industry
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Van den Steen, Eric, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Karen Elterman. "Tesla in 2023: 'Electrified' Competition." Harvard Business School Case 722-375, September 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
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Strategy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business Administration Eric J. Van den Steen Royal Little Professor of Business Administration Andy Wu Arjun and... View Details
  • March 2014 (Revised March 2018)
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Red Bull (A)

By: Eric Van den Steen and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Despite facing giants like Coke, Pepsi, and Budweiser—with obvious potential sources of competitive advantage—Red Bull had established itself as the U.S. market leader in energy drinks. By 2008, however, Red Bull's dominance was challenged as Monster drinks surpassed... View Details
Keywords: Judo Strategy; Judo Economics; Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Imitation; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Van den Steen, Eric, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Red Bull (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-401, March 2014. (Revised March 2018.)
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Sustaining Competitive Advantage Eric J. Van den Steen Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Driving Profitable Growth (also listed... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

  PublicationsFamilienunternehmen in Westdeutschland. Corporate Governance und Gesellschafterkultur seit den 1960er Jahren (Family business in West Germany since the 1960s) Authors:Christina Lubinski Publication:Vol. 21, Schriftenreihe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2013 (Revised November 2020)
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Tesla Motors

By: Eric Van den Steen
In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car—the model S—to rave reviews; had recently raised first-year production targets; and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed to be on... View Details
Keywords: Barriers To Entry; Economic Analysis; Learning Curve; Economies Of Scale; Innovation; Market Entry; Sustainable Competitive Advantage; Vision; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Advantage; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Learning; Economics; Analysis; Auto Industry
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Van den Steen, Eric. "Tesla Motors." Harvard Business School Case 714-413, August 2013. (Revised November 2020.)
  • October 2018
  • Article

Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper addresses primarily two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Strategy And Execution; Strategy; Leadership
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Van den Steen, Eric J. "Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy." Management Science 64, no. 10 (October 2018): 4533–4551.
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Boris Vallee Eric J. Van den Steen Luis M. Viceira Louis T. Wells Jeremy Yang Julian View Details
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Placement - Doctoral

Francesca Gino , Mina Cikara , and Adam Waytz Close Strategy 2025 Aticus Peterson Strategy, 2025 Placement: New York University Stern School of Business, Management and Organizations Department Advisors: Andy Wu (Chair), Jan W. Rivkin , View Details
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Business Economics - Doctoral

Stephen Marglin Eric S. Maskin Marc Melitz Jeffrey Miron Ariel Pakes Amanda Pallais Matthew Rabin Kenneth Rogoff Amartya Sen Neil Shephard Andrei Shleifer Stefanie Stantcheva Jeremy Stein James Stock Ludwig Straub Tomasz Strzalecki... View Details
  • February 2018
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Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry

By: Eric Van den Steen and Aaron Stark
After years of growth, the Swiss watch industry faced an existential crisis. Exports to the U.S., their primary market, had dropped by more than two thirds over the past five years. Swiss watches were being disrupted by high-quality and affordable American products.... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Disruption; Change Management; United States; Switzerland
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Van den Steen, Eric, and Aaron Stark. "Stealing Time: America's Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry." Harvard Business School Case 718-500, February 2018.
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Strategy and Strategic Thinking

By: Eric Van den Steen
This note gives managers a concrete perspective on what ‘a strategy’ really is, what makes a decision ‘strategic,’ and what ‘strategic thinking’ means. It also gives them practical frameworks to assess whether some set of decisions is really a strategy and how to... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Alignment; Strategy Definition; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Test; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Decision Making
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Van den Steen, Eric. "Strategy and Strategic Thinking." Harvard Business School Technical Note 721-431, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
  • February 2014 (Revised December 2016)
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Aldi: The Dark Horse Discounter

By: Eric Van den Steen and David Lane
In 2013, Aldi—the world's 8th largest retailer—planned to accelerate its US expansion. Aldi was a German-based hard discounter that sold a limited assortment of private-label groceries and household items in barebones stores. Despite its presence with 1200 stores in 32... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Strategy; Value Creation; Values and Beliefs
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Van den Steen, Eric, and David Lane. "Aldi: The Dark Horse Discounter." Harvard Business School Case 714-474, February 2014. (Revised December 2016.)
  • March 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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IKEA

By: Eric Van den Steen and Alon Galor
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Van den Steen, Eric, and Alon Galor. "IKEA." Harvard Business School Case 716-458, March 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
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Disagreement and the Allocation of Control

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This article studies the allocation of control when there is disagreement—in the sense of differing priors—about the right course of action. People then value control rights since they believe that their decisions are better than those of others. More disagreement (due... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Projects; Decisions; Value; Agreements and Arrangements
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Van den Steen, Eric J. "Disagreement and the Allocation of Control." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 26, no. 2 (August 2010): 385–426. (Advance Access published online on December 3, 2008.)
  • 2006
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The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
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Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
  • January 2016
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TransDigm Inc.

By: Eric Van den Steen, Kavita Mathews and Alon Galor
Transdigm had been very successful with a PE-like business model: it acquired smaller producers of aircraft components and improved their profits, mainly by increasing efficiency and applying value pricing. By 2014, Transdigm had completed almost 50 acquisitions. Its... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Price; Competitive Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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Van den Steen, Eric, Kavita Mathews, and Alon Galor. "TransDigm Inc." Harvard Business School Case 716-443, January 2016.
  • August 2016
  • Supplement

Videojet (B)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Bharat Anand and Eric Van den Steen
In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high tech printer just launched in the market. The new product exemplified the first real instance in which the Videojet... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Processes; Conglomerates; Diversification; Relational Contracts; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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Sadun, Raffaella, Bharat Anand, and Eric Van den Steen. "Videojet (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-410, August 2016.
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