US Competitiveness Project - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2017
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Study: US Government Its Own Worst Enemy

22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having View Details

04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Nov 2010
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US businesses urge Irish to keep low tax

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

surplus in the United States. The really good news for America, he says, is that our well-developed and venturesome consumerism provides the ideal potting soil for all these mobile ideas to take root. Consumers, not patents, are our national View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

support each other and who see the value in all-natural and homemade. — Stacy Smollin Schwartz (MBA 2003) A few ideas: 1) Create a kitty mascot that has a Twitter feed/Facebook presence. Use posts to hint at presents in the following... View Details

15 Sep 2016
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US political system risks economic competitiveness, study finds

09 Dec 2010
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Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School to Map Clusters in U.S. Regions

01 Mar 2011
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Harvard Business School Announces Winners of Student Start-Up Competition

13 Oct 2016
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Facts show US economic performance weak

01 Sep 2016
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Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition

given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

Four alumni ventures from distinctly different industries and geographies have been chosen to pitch at the 2017 alumni New Venture Competition on April 25 on the HBS campus. This year's finalists were selected from among 17 high-caliber... View Details