U.S. Competitiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2011
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PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2015
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Three Bright Lights in American Infrastructure

23 Mar 2015
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Business Icons Porter and Rivkin on Inequality: ‘It Undermines The American Dream’

07 Jun 2004
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How Important are Big Ideas?

shareholders) and treat them well; don’t worry about gurus ... ." While big ideas may have originated, according to at least one study, primarily from the U.S. in recent decades, what does this mean for future View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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30% of competitors’ high-cost capacities to the leader cuts prices 10%, while larger transfers raise them, revealing how capacity and efficiency influence market power. Working Paper Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs By:... View Details

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

does not preclude also raising cash by selling options externally to pay a large part of the cash compensation to employees. We certainly recognize the vitality and wealth that entrepreneurial ventures, particularly those in the high-tech sector, bring to the View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

11 Dec 2017
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Porter & Gehl on Politics: In Their Own Words

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

U.S. Senator) Tom Coburn (R-OK) argue against a government-run public market for health insurance. Reform must include incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, which only a private market could provide, they write. Professor Robert... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

20 Aug 2012
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Manufacturing

24 Oct 2017
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DisruptDC Monthly | October 2017

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

James K. Sebenius

JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details

31 Aug 2007
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Exclusivity and Control

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Robin S. Lee; Entertainment & Recreation

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The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers

The last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and innovation—patent lawsuits increase... View Details

Keywords: Patent Aggregators; Patent Litigation; Patent Pools; Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States

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22 Nov 2012
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Can entrepreneurship rescue the U.S.?

16 Nov 2014
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GOP leaders set sights on tax reform but fret over newly combative Obama

28 Apr 2015
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What Travel Could Be Like in the Future

14 Oct 2014
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The Unanticipated Risks of Maximizing Shareholder Value

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

School's U.S. Competitiveness Project. Rivkin is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. “Study after study has shown that a country's long-term prosperity depends on the quality of its... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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