Competition - Publications - Faculty & Research

2018
Working Paper

Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production

By: Daniel P. Gross

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on... View Details

Keywords: Incentives; Tournaments; Radical Vs. Incremental Innovation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Creativity; Innovation and Invention

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30 Sep 2003
Other Presentation

Massachusetts Regional Competitiveness Councils: Regional Competitiveness Profiles Northeast, Southeast, and Cape & Island Regions

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development

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19 Aug 2015
Video

American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

The research is part of the HBS US Competitiveness Project, launched in 2010 to assess structural challenges to the US economy and identify ways that leaders in business, labor, government, and academia can work together to address those... View Details

Article

The New Competition in World Banking

By: D. B. Crane and S. L. Hayes III

Keywords: Competition; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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23 Apr 2019
Video

AlmaPact Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2019 Business Track

1989
Other Presentation

Competitive Strategy and Real Estate Development

By: Michael E. Porter

Remarks to the 1989 Harvard Business School Real Estate Symposium View Details

Keywords: Strategy; United States

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August 1995 (Revised March 1998)
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Competition Policy in Japan in 1995

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15 Sep 2023
HBS Conference

Boston Conference on Markets and Competition

INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Competition 2005

Extended Abstracts of 2005 Winners at http://portal.acm.org.ezp1.harvard.edu/citation.cfm?id=1246384

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2006
Book

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg

Keywords: Health; Value; Competition; Outcome or Result

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14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

"strategic service vision" companies must adopt. Leading a breakthrough service—one that alters the basis of competition in entire industries—is different. Those that have done it understand things that their competitors’... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

31 Jan 2011
News

Laissez-Faire, Picking Winners, and Other Myths of National Competitiveness

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index All Research Areas Our research focuses on View Details

2019
Article

More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors

By: Alberto Cavallo

I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the web, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers in the U.S. and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that in the past... View Details