Competitive Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

1946, Christensen began working with Business Policy chair George Albert Smith to encourage students to examine companies' policies and strategies in relation to the requirements of their competitive environment—a novel concept at that... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

to find that they were now competing with Amazon.” Reversing the trend What should boards do to improve their focus on innovation? Making that strategic change starts with a frank analysis of the skills and expertise that may be lacking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

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Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog

combining elements of strategy and finance has four modules: (1) Understanding value creation, (2) Creating competitive advantage, (3) Sustaining competitive advantage, and (4) Driving profitable growth.... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

10 Jan 2017
News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

company that helps restaurants collect and analysis data to better understand their businesses, and, this month, a new book, The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats.... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on View Details

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

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

competitors, she said. The quotes are accurate, Progressive's are lowest less than half the time, and if they are not the lowest then the customer usually goes elsewhere. "So how does that make sense? What they're capitalizing on is that Progressive is better at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2000
News

Books

The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book based on their View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

good,” says Teodorescu. Much of the earliest applications of machine learning concerned language. At the birth of the field in the 1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing conceived the abstract grammars to analyze texts and describe reasoning. Since then, the field of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

a historical analysis of the U.S. tire industry from 1900 to 1990 suggest that the firms clustered in Akron initially led the industry in innovation, but later failed to respond effectively to the introduction of radial-tire technology.... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

organized in two categories: competitions and collaborative communities. His work has an impact both on practice, by helping partners solve difficult innovation dilemmas, and on theory, by optimizing design parameters needed to engineer... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

An Unconventional Suggestion

minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

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

01 Jun 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the global issues facing the management... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

we provide evidence that those firms with insiders selling prior to the announcement of the loss face significantly more negative abnormal returns. Our findings are robust to subsample analysis examining firms reporting goodwill... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

capacity. In an unanticipated finding, however, our analysis raises the possibility that the company's most prolific publishers begin to migrate to the periphery of the intra-firm social network, which may occur because these individuals'... View Details