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  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

putting users at the center of strategy leads to an almost unfair competitive advantage; ways to build an organizational system that delivers a superior user experience that is replicable, consistent, and... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

economies. We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

“Big Hairy Audacious Goals” (BHAGS) Were great places to work only for those who bought into the mission and the way things are done Often practiced a strategy of “Let’s just try a lot of stuff and keep what works” Focused primarily on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

courses. P-TECH addresses a skills gap affecting U.S. competitiveness that quickly caught the attention of elected officials. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-050 IBM and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

sentences or less — what does the company do?' Then you give the pitch and then he plays back, 'That's not compelling, let's make that compelling.' Or the playback would be, 'What is your competitive advantage, given the fact that....'... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

progress. When thinking about our strategy and how to communicate it to teammates, I walk myself through the list of each class in the RC first-semester curriculum as a sort of outline/checklist. It’s an organized way to think about how... View Details
  • March 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Eli Lilly: The Evista Project

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Describes the creation and operation of the initial two heavyweight teams for new drug development and launch. The primary focus is on one of the teams, Evista, although comparisons to the other team, Zyprexa, are included. Lilly must decide the next phase (postlaunch)... View Details
Keywords: Projects; Groups and Teams; Operations; Management Teams; Product Development; Transition; Product Design; Business Startups; Business Plan; Product Launch; Competition; Service Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • March 2023
  • Article

Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries

By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.

In many... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Antitrust Law; Antitrust Theory; Law And Economics; Collusion; Collaboration; Collaborative Industries; Regulation; ＂Repeated Games＂; IPOs; Initial Public Offerings; Underwriters; Real Estate; Real Estate Agents; Realtors; Syndicated Markets; Syndication; Brokers; Market Concentration; Competition; Law; Economics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Game Theory; Initial Public Offering
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  • July 2009 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Sotheby's & Christie's Inc.

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Catherine Jane Wise
The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250 year history. The industry is dominated by Sotheby's and Christie's Inc. Curiously, neither competitor has been able to overtake the other by a notable margin despite the clear network effects of this... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Restructuring; Economics; Auctions; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Operations; Competition
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  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

full-service bank; describes the competitive context of low-income sector of financing in Mexico; and reviews the decisions leading to the IPO in the Mexican Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

strategy and organizational management. Products are being developed through open innovation, with input from people connected to each other and the company only through a common interest—and electronic media. Virtually every company on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 22, 2016

pursuing an aggressive strategy of acquisitions over the last several years. End-market consolidation in the retail space has driven vertical integration in the extremely competitive fresh tomato business,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

the challenges and inspire their organizations to help the world work its way through these difficult times. In a crisis like this, there is no place for leaders to be bragging or overpromising the capabilities of their company or using this crisis for View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

authors concluded that a doctrinaire "free market" approach was not necessarily the best route for a nation to follow. And in the mid-1980s he joined HBS professor Bruce R. Scott in contributing to and editing U.S. View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

addressing and the dissemination of the project’s research to global practitioners. What inspired the Managing the Future of Work Project? JOSEPH FULLER: It began as an extension of the School’s US Competitiveness Project and over time... View Details