Competitive Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

the Chicago public school system, as well as their parents to reinforce the concepts at home, and partnered with other local non-profits and organizations. “While at HBS, I am excited to learn from other social entrepreneurs about new models and View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

Museum of Natural History, Chicago Strategy for the Field: "More. Faster. Better." Operating expenses FY '99: $60 million Square feet he oversees: Close to a million 33 Web site: www.fieldmuseum.org Best part of his job: "Knowing that we... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Case

Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the challenges faced by Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche Industries Limited in 2003, when the Kenyan government accused the company of manufacturing and selling substandard alcoholic drinks, revoked its liquor licenses, and shut down its... View Details

Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Wine; Manufacturing; Informal Market; Regulation; Illicit; Illegal; Shutdown; Factory; Low-income Consumers; Multinational; Local; Government; Allegations; Accusations; Negative Press; EABL; Tusker; Beer; SAB; Chang'aa; Naivasha; Rift Valley; East Africa; Lawsuit; Legal Battle; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Production; Safety; Quality; Distribution; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa

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24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

speed. We apply our model to shopping mall configuration and sales. We find that competition effects dominate within retail store categories, but that agglomeration effects exist across store categories. We find positive causal brand... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley studies the intersection of business and law, and is interested in how companies can use legal resources as a competitive asset. In this interview, Bagley discusses ways businesses can... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

competition and downsizing; rapid turnover of executives and employees; growing concern about the environment; and the crumbling of institutions such as schools and the family. "We're searching for new ways of grounding to sustain us... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her home office with her head of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and... View Details

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

fair strategies in public finance? A: Tax economists generally point to a few things about current taxes that seem unwise. Probably foremost among them is the taxation of capital income, such as dividends and capital gains. There is a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

station in San Jose, along with giants like General Electric, Westinghouse, and General Tire. 24 Expanding into cable TV—either by applying for franchises or by acquiring established cable companies—was a natural strategy for broadcasters... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

not enough if we want a competitive advantage. In Smarter Together, Coupa Software CEO Rob Bernshteyn explains how we will soon be able to draw upon the intelligence of the community—collectively what we, and the organizations we work... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 Demand Estimation in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

19 Feb 2021
News

A Playbook for Progress

an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning CBS news correspondent. Bonita... View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions... View Details

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and instead develop innovative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

myself. I'm cautious when investing because we need to build sustainable businesses and create a competitive track record for the country, if we're going to improve opportunities for the next generation." [music] Targeted efforts like... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

How should managers and executives recognize and change the dynamics? A: The first step is for project managers to know that this will almost certainly happen during at least some of their assignments. Performance pressure is ubiquitous in today's knowledge-intensive... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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