Competitiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

1978
Working Paper

May 1987
Background Note

Multinational Marketing and Competitive Strategy

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01 May 2012
News

Retrospective: Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy

20 May 2008
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'Strategy is about competitive advantage'

01 Mar 2012
News

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

May 15 2018
Testimonial

Winning in a Competitive Market

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2022
Book

Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage

By: James Heskett

There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership

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May 20, 2024
Article

Porter’s Five Forces and Competitive Advantage in Web3

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu

Competitive strategy — the art of crafting and executing plans to achieve an advantageous position in the market — is integral to any business, and especially relevant for platforms because it determines their ability to achieve network effects and scale. But web3... View Details

Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Digital Transformation

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Oct 2001
Report

Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness

The real work of raising productivity and innovative capacity usually occurs not in our nation's capital, but in the cities and regions where firms are based and competition actually takes place. View Details

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

7 Nov 2001
Other Presentation

Building a Competitive Argentina: Towards a National Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter

Presentation delivered at the competitive advantage seminar in Buenos Aires, Argentina. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Argentina

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January 1974
Background Note

Elements of Competitive Decision-Making: Zero-Sums

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1981
Working Paper

Competitive Structure in Investment Banking

By: S. L. Hayes III, Michael A. Spence and David van P. Marks

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November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

NYSE vs. NASDAQ: International Competition

By: Estelle S. Cantillon and Tarun Khanna

Compares and contrasts the international strategies of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ as they looked overseas for new sources of growth in the late 1990s. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Financial Markets; Globalization; United States

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