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  • 17 Apr 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation

Keywords: by David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer & Luk N. Van Wassenhove
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • September 2005
  • Article

Managerial Foresight and Attempted Rent Appropriation: Insider Trading on Knowledge of Imminent Breakthroughs

By: Gautam Ahuja, Russell W. Coff and Peggy M. Lee
In order to establish a competitive advantage, firms must acquire or create resources at a price below their value in use. Absent pure luck, this requires managers to exercise foresight about a resource's future value and/or complementarities with pre-existing... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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  • December 1996 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Colorscope, Inc.

By: V.G. Narayanan and Joseph Cha
A small company in the graphic arts business faces severe price competition. The company must respond by cutting costs and making process improvements. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Price; Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Competition; Fine Arts Industry
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 06 Nov 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End

    with lower construction costs after many Japanese recoiled at its projected $2.7 billion price tag. "Hosting the Olympics, especially the larger Summer Games, is a globally recognized initiative for nation-branding via big... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Sports
    • 22 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

    The United States housing market is tight and expensive and shows no signs of easing. Existing home sales hit a 15-year high in 2021, with 6.12 million sold, a jump of 8.5 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median sales View Details
    Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
    • January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
    • Background Note

    A High-Tech Revolution with Chinese Characteristics: China's Drive Towards EV Supremacy

    By: William C. Kirby, Daniel Fu and Matthew Ngai
    This background note explains and documents the rise of China's EV industry. Moreover, it identifies the challenges facing it and posits several questions about the decisions needed to be made to sustain the industry's global dominance. Would Chinese producers be able... View Details
    Keywords: State Capitalism; Electric Vehicles; Tesla; Renewable Energy; Global Strategy; Taxation; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Competition; Auto Industry; China; United States; Japan; European Union
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    • January 2007
    • Case

    AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation

    By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley
    AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Price; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry
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    • Article

    How Much Is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods

    In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price they charge for their service. The objective of this paper is to conduct an empirical... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Price; Service Delivery; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry
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    • January 2006 (Revised March 2010)
    • Case

    Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Andres Hervas and Jordan Mitchell
    We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Profit; Distribution; Competition; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure
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    • 30 Sep 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

    There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products: Whither the price and the quality?... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
    • April 2008 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    Leveraged Loans 2007

    By: Andre F. Perold and Erik Stafford
    The leveraged loan market was in a crisis during the summer of 2007, following many years of low realized volatility (less than 4% per annum), an index of leveraged loans had fallen over 5% in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class... View Details
    Keywords: History; Financial Liquidity; Investment; Financial Crisis; Market Transactions; Disruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    • September 1990 (Revised November 1994)
    • Case

    Kao Corp.

    By: John A. Quelch
    As the Japanese diaper market expands, Kao management must determine its response to new product introductions by its two major competitors. Options include launching a new premium priced brand or a new low priced brand, or increasing advertising and promotion... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Marketing Strategy; Industry Growth; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Japan
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    • February 2025
    • Article

    Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions

    By: Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller
    We consider the identification of empirical models of supply and demand with imperfect competition. We show that a restriction on the covariance between unobserved demand and cost shocks can resolve endogeneity and identify the price parameter. We demonstrate how to... View Details
    Keywords: Demand Estimation; Identification; Endogeneity Bias; Covariance Restrictions; Ordinary Least Squares; Instrumental Variables; Price; Demand and Consumers; Competition
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    • May 2007 (Revised September 2008)
    • Case

    Biocon Limited

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Ananth Chepuri
    Biocon Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an innovation-led strategy. This new... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; India
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    • July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
    • Case

    Meloche Monnex

    Meloche Monnex is outperforming industry growth and profitability, thanks to its focus on affinity groups (mostly university alumni) and innovative telemarketing techniques. Should e-mail marketing play a greater role in the customer acquisition process, as suggested... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Marketing Channels
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    • March 1986 (Revised July 2000)
    • Case

    Peter Browning and Continental White Cap (A)

    Presents a new divisional vice president's entry into a well-established and still successful manufacturing organization which is nevertheless facing an impending competitive crisis. Demonstrates his challenge and his efforts, under pressure from corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 20 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 20

    they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or non-adoption) of self-matching across a range of competitive scenarios,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2006
    • Background Note

    A Note on Applying Dimensional Analysis to Understand Cost Drivers

    Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Competitive Strategy
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