Product Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Monopolistic Competition Between Differentiated Products With Demand For More Than One Variety

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Web Services

April 2002
Supplement

Cityspace: Product Demonstration and Reflections by Marc Meyohas, Founder

Consists of two parts. The first part shows a television commercial by NEC portraying the Cityspace information kiosks. This commercial was aired in the United Kingdom in 1998. The second part shows Marc Meyohas, founder of Cityspace, reflecting on the business model... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; United Kingdom

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2021
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International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters

By: Geoffrey Jones and Teresa da Silva Lopes

This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of... View Details

Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Internalization; Globalization; Theory; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America

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22 May 2007
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The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel

2020
Book

The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value

By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg

How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing “ends”—actual outcomes—rather than selling “means”—their products and services. View Details

Keywords: Commerce; Business Model; Design; Customer Relationship Management; Strategy

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1996
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Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy

By: S. Thomke, A. Nimgade and P. Pospisil

Keywords: Product Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

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02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

some social media platforms soar while others fizzle, and how business can use them to generate profit. "I have always been fascinated that humans interact online when we can interact offline as we have for thousands of years," says Piskorski, an associate professor in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2023
News

How Generative AI Can Boost Highly Skilled Workers’ Productivity

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their business strategy. We asked professors from Harvard Business School’s View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

May 1990
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: From Manufacturing to Operations Strategy

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Production; Strategy; Quality; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning

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02 Apr 2009
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

maintaining or improving medical outcomes. Better measurements also allow payers to offer bundled payments, based on the costs of using efficient processes and contingent on achieving superior outcomes. The end result will be a more effective and more View Details

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

fundamental goal of economic policy is to enhance competitiveness, which is reflected in the productivity with which a nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services.” —... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

1995
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Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Imperfectly Competitive Product Markets

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Competition; Markets

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October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
Exercise

The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

This short fictional case forms the basis of a team decision-making exercise. The case, inspired by a real decision facing a major telecommunications company, describes a cross-functional management team convened by the CEO for the purpose of developing a... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Management; Perspective; Product Launch; Internet and the Web; Knowledge Sharing; Telecommunications Industry

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25 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

World Nutella Day, held on February 5, inspired more than 40,000 Instagram posts as fans of the chocolate-hazelnut spread shared recipe videos, memes, and selfies with jars. It was free marketing for Nutella maker Ferrero, which almost squandered this opportunity when... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost