Publications

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

protection, particularly patents, on the competitive strategies of firms in high-technology industries. Venture Capital and Private Equity, an elective course Lerner developed and introduced into the HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
Case

Keggfarms (India): Which Came First, the Kuroiler(TM) or the KEGG(TM)?

Vinod Kapur has founded a unique enterprise, Keggfarms, based on a special poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about... View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; For-Profit Firms; Social Entrepreneurship; Competition; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

March 2009 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

Roppongi Hills: City Within a City

By: Andrei Hagiu

Teaching Note for [707431]. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Performance; Brands and Branding; Buildings and Facilities; Real Estate Industry; Tokyo

June 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Supplement

Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Air Transportation Industry; Dublin; London

October 1994
Article

Contrived Competition: Economic Regulation and Deregulation, 1920s-80s

By: R. H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Competition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & View Details

April 2017 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (A)

By: Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu and Kerry Herman

Korea Telecom (KT) has committed $4 billion in investments and R&D to build a GiGAtopia, essentially ushering in the next generation of mobile (5G) and wired infrastructure. CEO Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, and his team are considering which areas to prioritize in terms of new... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technological Innovation; Infrastructure; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Telecommunications Industry

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

economy and lower-income consumers. Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence Technology was getting dull earlier this decade, says David Yoffie. But the sudden arrival of digital convergence has turned the tech world upside down.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
Case

X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella

Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace, and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada

June 2011
Teaching Note

Knight the King: The Founding of Nike (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 810077. View Details

Keywords: Market Participation; Public Ownership; Transformation; Business Startups; Going Public; Competition; Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry

2007
Other Unpublished Work

Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market

By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer

Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Competition; Contracts; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

September 1991 (Revised May 1994)
Background Note

Note on the PC Network Software Industry--1990

By: David B. Yoffie

Examines the economics, technology, customer segments, and competitors of the PC networking software industry. View Details

Keywords: Customers; Economics; Competition; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure