Competitiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

had implemented changes to regulated but competitive insurance and provider markets, and the United Kingdom, which had introduced market-style initiatives while keeping insurance and delivery under the National Health Service. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

opportunities for businesses. This course examines the determinants of competitiveness and economic development and challenges students to understand the role of micro and macro policies. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the world... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the crowdsourcing contest and the potential... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Apr 2014
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accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2011
Teaching Note

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (TN)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried

Teaching Note for 310-070. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Planning; Transformation; Business Offices; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Goals and Objectives; Competitive Strategy; Opportunities; Banking Industry; Alabama

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01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

tuition, and Harvard Business Publishing—are facing constraints. A desire to limit tuition increases, for example, and growing competition for professional development mean that growth trajectories across these three areas are lower in... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation

advancing the next big idea. The School relies heavily on annual gifts to the HBS Fund for early-stage support of breakthrough projects, courses, programs, and other initiatives.” As ventures like Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), the US... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

were more likely to be fraudulent, and restaurants that recently received bad reviews or faced increased competition were more likely to commit review fraud. Next up: Luca is conducting experiments to see if posting health department... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education

California. Our goal is to give these children the academic and social/emotional experiences they need to be able to go to and get through a competitive four-year college. “Every type of skill you would find in a business, you would find... View Details

20 Nov 2014
News

Strengthening America's Public Education System

“For young Americans to succeed in today’s workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world’s best,” says Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. He explains that because of this, education is an area of study in HBS’s U.S.... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Serving through TechnoServe

encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut.... View Details

February 2023
Supplement

Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A) Courseware

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield

In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Growth Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Value Creation; Supply and Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North America

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August 1986
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Global High-tech Sangyou: Kawaritsutsu aru Kyousou no Gensoku (Global High-tech Industries: Changing Paradigms of Competition)

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: Business Ventures; Competition

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April 1995 (Revised July 1995)
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Power Play (B): Sega in 16-bit Video Games

Home video-game systems were pioneered by the U.S. company Atari in the mid-1970s. After going through boom and bust in the early 1980s, the industry was resurrected in the mid-1980s by the Japanese company Nintendo. With its 8-bit video-game system, Nintendo... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Competition; Video Game Industry; Japan; United States

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Can Japan Compete?

By: Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and M. Sakakibara

The result of a major piece of research, this book reveals that there have long been two Japans, the familiar one that was highly competitive, and another Japan, almost invisible, that was highly uncompetitive. The authors unravel this puzzle, and provide a solution... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economy; Japan

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