Competitive Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

decisions to voluntarily submit to regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants engage in a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/hygiene.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas By: King, Andrew, and Karim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

operations—including the UN's response to the Ebola outbreak. There is keen competition and string pulling among nations to win those upper level staff appointments. While those members, in theory, are supposed to check their national... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

economy. Since 2000, domestic manufacturing jobs have slid on a roller-coaster drop, falling more than 30 percent, or 5 million jobs, largely due to import competition and automation. About 12 million jobs remain in the sector. “We think... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

packaging of their own, DuPont remained the market leader, either by staying ahead of the competition or, in one case, by suing them for patent infringement. (DuPont sued Sylvania in the early 1930s and ended up licensing the company to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

competitive as well as customer pressure. This demands confidence, not bravado; astute analysis not raw aggression; and requires careful, empathetic focus on the other players in the marketplace.... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

there was still a lot of room for growth. India has had a unique competitive advantage as a result of this deeper pool of technical knowledge and the fact that it is simply a large country and has more people. I would expect to see... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

1946, Christensen began working with Business Policy chair George Albert Smith to encourage students to examine companies' policies and strategies in relation to the requirements of their competitive environment—a novel concept at that... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

to find that they were now competing with Amazon.” Reversing the trend What should boards do to improve their focus on innovation? Making that strategic change starts with a frank analysis of the skills and expertise that may be lacking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

good,” says Teodorescu. Much of the earliest applications of machine learning concerned language. At the birth of the field in the 1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing conceived the abstract grammars to analyze texts and describe reasoning. Since then, the field of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

a historical analysis of the U.S. tire industry from 1900 to 1990 suggest that the firms clustered in Akron initially led the industry in innovation, but later failed to respond effectively to the introduction of radial-tire technology.... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

chooses not to. As the would-be disruptor grows, it sharpens its ability to do what the competitor cannot do. This hamstrings future competitive response because the disruptor has the advantage of accumulated learning and knowledge. In... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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