competition - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 1982 (Revised August 1985)
Case

Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.: Commercial Roofing Division (A)

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Change Management; Construction Industry

01 Mar 2012
News

Cracks in the Foundation

I couldn't help but feel a sense of gloom as I read the results of the recent HBS alumni survey on US competitiveness. It revealed that alumni overwhelmingly believe the United States is losing its competitive edge, particularly when... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Competitive Strategy

2022
Working Paper

Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections

By: Kevin Dano, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons

In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these two forces compound each... View Details

Keywords: Political Parties; Incumbent Politicians; Democracy; Political Elections; Competitive Advantage

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September 2014
Supplement

HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Arnold Peinado

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Strategy; Growth Strategy And Execution; Business Models; Disruptive Technologies; Customer Relations; International Business; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Operations; Competitive Strategy

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August 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp

By: Benjamin Edelman and Karen Webster

LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit card. Will consumers embrace the service? Will merchants? LevelUp considers adjustments to make the service attractive to both consumers and merchants, while trying to... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Payments; Smartphone; Credit Cards; Interchange Fee; Mobile Marketing; Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Mobile Technology; Technology Networks; Food and Beverage Industry; Banking Industry; United States

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December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
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Akamai's Edge (B)

By: Eric Van den Steen

In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive market entry, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with Akamai's... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Advantage

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09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

chooses not to. As the would-be disruptor grows, it sharpens its ability to do what the competitor cannot do. This hamstrings future competitive response because the disruptor has the advantage of accumulated learning and knowledge. In... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

March 2015 (Revised August 2016)
Case

Coffee Wars in India: Starbucks 2015

By: David Yoffie and Rachna Tahilyani

This case examines the progress made by Starbucks in its first two years of operation in India. View Details

Keywords: Competitors; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; India

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01 Dec 2017
News

Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction

Washington isn’t broken. It’s thriving. The real problem is that our political system benefits the major political parties and their industry allies—not the people it was designed to serve. That’s according to “Why Competition in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government

October 2000
Case

CDnow (B)

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Christina Akers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation

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1996
Chapter

Green and Competitive: Ending the Stalemate

By: Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde

Keywords: Competition

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June 2015
Teaching Note

Coffee Wars in India

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Competition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; India

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May 1998 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Leadership Online (A): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com

Describes the attempt of a traditional retailer, Barnes & Noble, to counter the challenges posed by an Internet-based start-up, Amazon.com. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Internet; Retail Industry

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