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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Competition McKim, Mead & White The Campus Emerges Concrete Symbols The Dedication Building the Campus Research Links Bibliography Archival Collections Digital Resources Site Credits Concrete Symbols “The buildings . . . were... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

bathroom tissue manufacturer offers you a discount on its product. How much should you buy? If you stock up now, will the manufacturer have any incentive to give you a good deal later? Will your decision affect the competition between... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2009
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Online Entrepreneur

growth of social media as an important business tool, “Communispace offers the only social-networking model with a proven track record of providing real business value and competitive advantage to businesses.” The firm, based in... View Details

Keywords: awards; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2010
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence

she spun off from Circles), a Boston-based media company whose leading brand, Suzanne’s Files, targets high-end consumers with travel and lifestyle content. A 2003 finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition and a... View Details

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

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

book of five years ago, Blue Ocean Strategy, to check my recollection of what the authors had to say about the role of the customer in fashioning a strategy that would enable an enterprise to escape from red, blood-strewn, competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

at the failure of the Japanese economy in light of Levitt's insights. When Levitt wrote "The Globalization of Markets" in 1983, Japanese companies were held up as model competitors. Today, the Japanese economy and the View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

01 Mar 2008
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New York HBS Club Donates Over $1 Million to Nonprofits

receive $200,000 for need-based MBA fellowships and for two full scholarships for nonprofit leaders to attend the Executive Education Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program. Said the New York club’s Bennett Goodman (MBA ’84), senior managing partner of... View Details

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

4 PM – 7 PM CDT, 12 Mar 2017
HBS Alumni Events

HBS@SXSW 2017

SXSW? So are we! HBS is coming to Austin. Join other HBS alumni attending the SXSW Interactive Conference at Bobs Steak and Chop House for an informal networking reception. Three Texas regional finalists for the Alumni New Venture View Details

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Financing New Ideas - 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

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

is nearly as large. Working PapersPrice Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret Pierson Abstract In this paper, we postulate a general class of price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while another patient’s bill soars through... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

June 21, 2019
Article

When Tech Companies Compete on Their Own Platforms

By: Feng Zhu

One common complaint from third parties about platform businesses is that they see what succeeds on their platforms and then enter the most profitable areas themselves, often decimating third parties in the process. Studies have identified several motivations for... View Details

Keywords: Platform-based Markets; Platform-owner Entry; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition

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Fixing What Really Ails Japan

By: Michael E. Porter and Hirotaka Takeuchi

Conventional wisdom claims that Japan’s “economic miracle” stemmed from its unique model of government guidance and its revolutionary corporate management techniques. An in-depth study proves this seriously wrong. Rampant government intervention has caused more... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Competition; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; Japan

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March 2009
Teaching Note

Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

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Keywords: Business Startups; Information Technology; Competition; Negotiation Deal; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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October 2002 (Revised October 2005)
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United Parcel Service's IPO

By: Paul M. Healy, Brett Laschinger and Ajay Shroff

Examines the valuation of United Parcel Service (UPS) at the time of its IPO in mid-1999. Offers students the opportunity to assess UPS's current performance relative to its major competitor, Federal Express (FedEx), and to judge whether that performance is... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Competition; Shipping Industry; Georgia (state, US)

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June 2001 (Revised February 2002)
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Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea (A)

Rambus, Inc. was founded to develop a new type of high-speed memory chip technology to enable DRAMs to keep up with ever-faster microprocessors. After developing the technology, Rambus chose an unusual licensing approach to commercialize it. This case series describes... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Commercialization; Hardware; Cooperation; Technology Industry

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November 2000
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Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division in Europe (1996-2000)

By: David J. Arnold and Carin-Isabel Knoop

By November 2000, Hewlett-Packard's Home Products Division (HPD) had been selling its Pavilion line of personal computers in Europe for almost five years. During that time, HPD had entered and exited Germany, struggled in France and the United Kingdom, and... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Information Infrastructure; Transformation; Performance Evaluation; Computer Industry; France; Germany; United Kingdom

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21 Feb 2017
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Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough... View Details

Keywords: Vendee Globe

24 Apr 2014
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Training managers in the developing world

aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details