Publications

Article

Population and Nutrition: A Case for Integration

By: James E. Austin and F. James Levinson

Keywords: Nutrition; Integration; Groups and Teams

02 May 2016
News

Building Startup Skills for Business and Life

students. Daugherty cochaired the fundraising campaign and serves as the center’s executive chair. “The thrill, for me,” he says, “is getting students excited about the future View Details

Spring 2014
Article

Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking and Reporting: A Clinical Study of a Biopharmaceutical Company

By: Andrew Knauer and George Serafeim

Faced with a large percentage of investors that chase short-term returns, companies could benefit by attracting investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take... View Details

Keywords: Investing; Asset Management; Long-term Investing; Short-termism; Sustainability; Integrated Reporting; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Pharmaceuticals; Leadership; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Finance; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

19 Aug 2010
News

Classroom Hijinks: Catchphrases, Mottos, Cheers, and Mascots

variety of ways, from catchphrases to elaborate pranks. Executive Education classes, also taught in one classroom, are together for a shorter time and are, perhaps, less impressionable than the younger MBA... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Spring 2018
Article

The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini

By: Jeremy Friedman

This article examines the strategy of the Iranian Tudeh Party in concert with its Soviet and East German patrons and allies during and after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The article assesses the thinking behind the Tudeh’s strategy of unwavering support for... View Details

06 Dec 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures

Keywords: by Joshua Lev Krieger

February 1979 (Revised July 1985)
Case

Fiber-Optics Industry (A): Products, Technology, and Markets--1978

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competition; Competitive Strategy; Hardware; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry

3 Feb 2006
Conference Presentation

The Pedagogy of Commercializing Science and Technology

Keywords: Information Technology; Science; Commercialization; Teaching

1996
Article

Competitive Advantage, Agglomeration Economies, and Regional Policy

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economy; Competition; Policy

01 Feb 1999
News

NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

afternoon session at ING-Furman Selz and an evening session at the Chase Manhattan Bank. In the afternoon segment, graduates of The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit program (a three-day Executive Education course for... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Ed Fuller (AMP 101, 1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books When a bomb rips the façade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage.... View Details

June 2024
Case

Alignvest Student Housing: Keep Building or Time to Sell?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Patrick Sanguineti

Sanjil Shah, Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing REIT (ASH), faces the most significant decision thus far in his career: is it the right time to sell the company? Together with his partner Reza Satchu, Shah had developed ASH into the largest student housing... View Details

Keywords: Exit Strategy; Real Estate; Founder; Equity Valuation; Decisions; Entrepreneurial Finance; Interest Rates; Health Pandemics; Housing; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Business Exit or Shutdown; Canada

Educators

2006
Chapter

Altruism, Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Keywords: Working Conditions; Cooperation; Attitudes

1998
Book

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Performance Consistency

September 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Apple Pay and Mobile Payments in Australia (A)

By: Feng Zhu, Susan Athey and David Lane

In summer 2016, four of Australia’s top five banks petitioned regulators for permission to bargain collectively with Apple over the terms under which they would support its digital wallet, Apple Pay. They argued that doing so would force concessions from Apple that... View Details

Keywords: Payment Methods; Mobile Payment; Apple; Banks and Banking; Cooperation; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Australia

Educators

July–August 2013
Article

Complementary Goods: Creating, Capturing, and Competing for Value

By: Taylan Yalcin, Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg and Eyal Biyalogorsky

This paper studies the strategic interaction between firms producing strictly complementary products. With strict complements, a consumer derives positive utility only when both products are used together. We show that value-capture and value-creation problems arise... View Details

Keywords: Complementary Goods; Product Development; Royalty Fees; Product Marketing; Competition