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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Drivers of Competitiveness Drivers of Competitiveness Achieving real and sustainable competitive advantage requires a clear understanding of what “competitiveness” means View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 30 Oct 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: October 30, 2019 - December 11, 2019 View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 21 Aug 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: August 21, 2019 - October 02, 2019 View Details

2001
Book

Judo Strategy

By: D. B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak

Keywords: Competitive Strategy

June 1999 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Supermercados Disco: Regional Strategy

The Disco chain of supermarkets has pursued a successful local niche strategy in Argentina to compete with intense competition from multinational chains. Now Disco considers options for expanding its regional strength. View Details

Keywords: Food; Marketing Strategy; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Argentina

Educators

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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environmental regulation on business by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. Since then, Professor Porter and the Institute have continued to explore how new government regulations, as well as... View Details

21 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology

Article

Strategy Maps

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Keywords: Strategy

January 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Background Note

Note on Corporate Strategy

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Introduces students to the study of corporate strategy. Focuses on questions of scope and ownership. Examines both horizontal and vertical integration. Underscores the point that economies of scope, or the existence of relationship-specific investments, are... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Contracts; Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration

Educators

March 1992
Article

The Strategy of Control: How Accounting Information Helps to Formulate and Implement Business Strategy

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Accounting; Business Strategy

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Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2023 January 2023 Strategy for Health Care Delivery Online, Boston, MA Bringing together top management and senior physician leaders from global health care organizations, this View Details

March 1996
Supplement

Executive Shirt Company, Inc.: Analysis

By: Janice H. Hammond

Presents a follow-up. View Details

Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

October 1981
Background Note

Note on Executive Search, Career Counseling, and Other Placement Services

September 2020 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

Artea (A), (B), (C), and (D): Designing Targeting Strategies

By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS No. 521-021,521-022,521-037,521-043. This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and... View Details

Keywords: Targeted Advertising; Targeting; Race; Gender; Diversity; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Prejudice and Bias; Analytics and Data Science; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Stages of Development Stages of Development Successful economic development is a process of successive upgrading. A nation’s business environment evolves to support and encourage increasingly... View Details

November 1991
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Integrating Distribution Strategy and Tactics: A Model and an Application

By: V. K. Rangan and R. Jaikumar

Keywords: Strategy; Integration

September–October 2016
Article

What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with functional best practices. As a senior executive, you can worry all you want about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Management Teams