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  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

pursued. It’s really the ethos that I’ve carried with me from when I was 13 to right now.” “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me to express myself when finding the words was more difficult.” Janice... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao and Elizabeth Raabe
In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and legal events relevant to the tire industry. Two items caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Lawsuits and Litigation; Auto Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

the state level. Additional models examined whether this relationship was affected, both separately and jointly, by insurance mandates and the Great Recession. Results: The coincident index was positively correlated with IVF use at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest ideas in modern psychological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Song-Hee Kim, Seoul National University

  • Web

The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Publishing Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta 09 Sep 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing On Competition, Updated... View Details
  • January 2008 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model

By: Robert G. Eccles
Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental health clinic based in Harvard Square. Its founder, Dr. Joan Wheelis, is a nationally recognized practicing psychiatrist who has developed outpatient treatment programs based on Dialectical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Health Industry; United States
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta View All Related Resources “The worst mistake—and the most common one—is not having a strategy... View Details
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

And an audience of customers standing by with their smartphones to record any spectacle seems to have had, until now, unfortunately, no discernable impact on corporate policy guidelines for dealing with uncooperative customers. Companies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Environmental Quality Rethinking regulation & competitiveness. Publications & Resources 16 Dec 2011 Harvard Business Press Books Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition & Strategy by View Details
  • Web

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

Greg Hills, Marc Pfitzer, Sonja Patscheke, Elizabeth Hawkins 16 Dec 2012 Harvard Business School Publishing Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan View Details
  • Web

The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Essential Guide to Competition & Strategy by Joan Magretta 2006 Harvard Business School Press Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results View Details
  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

managing partner. Previously, he served as the president and CEO of Lincoln Snacks Company. Henry Charles Hawley (MBA 1925, DCS 1930) Fellowship The Henry Charles Hawley Fellowship was established by Joan... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Deepak Hegde and Alexander Ljungqvist
We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information