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  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Rank-Order Tournaments Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti Abstract Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

profit generated by different business strategies. Formulas and examples are provided to calculate the profit generated by changes in market share, revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and support costs. We illustrate how this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

successful projects include: Creating the strategic plan for a new department, including product roadmap, architecture, budget, staffing, product pricing, and additional resources Assisting in building a business case and competitive... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

Williams had nearly $8 billion in sales. The oil industry is becoming more competitive in part because of such cast-off purchases by companies like Williams. Stay Home. For many companies, it still makes a lot more sense to grow... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

product-market positions. In the late 1980s, the search for more dynamic, adaptive, and sustainable advantage led many to supplement their analysis of external competition with an internal-competency... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry
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  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment strategy as it seeks to deploy $400m, as well as the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52104 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

being.”  Others challenged data documenting productivity trends.  Their position basically was that there is no need for patience.  The productivity dividend is happening.   For example, David Wittenberg cautioned us to “Beware of snapshot View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

course opens with a case on why a hypothetical competitive market economy can be used as a starting point for analyzing what role government should play. Market economies are miraculous when at their best: flexible, decisive, and... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

empirically demonstrated that a manager’s ability was a very important factor in converting player performance into team victories in baseball. But it wasn’t just team performance that was enhanced by managerial quality. “Kahn’s additional View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 26 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Cavallo suggests that American companies—and more recently, consumers—are bearing the brunt of the trade war with China, whose government has been retaliating with its own import tax increases. US exporters, particularly farmers selling commodities in View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel
  • 23 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

way to measure the sometimes subjective qualities of what makes a company socially responsible. For that, the researchers relied on survey measures from the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD business school in Switzerland,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

paper: http://www.whatworksforamerica.org/ideas/inflection-point-new-vision-new-strategy-new-organization/ Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices Authors:Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2011
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How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett