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  • 2015
  • Chapter

What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool developed in the area of business studies. This chapter reviews some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called "positioning school" and discusses... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Regional Policy; Strategic Planning; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Policy
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  • Mar 2018
  • Conference Presentation

Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy

By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
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  • Web

National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & Applications National View Details
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Reshaping Competition

Workspace: Platform with company financials, news articles, and analyst reports (helpful for understanding market sentiment and important entity events). Orbis: A database for company information that is global in scope (includes some private... View Details
  • 2010
  • Report

Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh and Do Hong Hanh
The 2010 Vietnam Competitiveness Report contains a broad assessment of Vietnam's current competitiveness, an analysis of the key challenges and opportunities ahead, and a proposal for an economic strategy to enable Vietnam to reach a higher level of sustainable growth.... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Labor; Industry Clusters; Performance Capacity; Performance Productivity; Competitive Strategy
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    Fair Competition

    unions, and specialty producers. Retail pharmacists extended these occupational exemptions and pressured drug manufacturers to maintain minimum prices throughout the Depression. The article fits into a larger book-length project on American federalism and View Details
    • Research Summary

    Clusters and Competition

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Porter is conducting ongoing research on the theory of clusters, or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. This work includes further development of cluster theory and its implications for management and public... View Details
    • Web

    Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Macroeconomics Competitiveness Sound Monetary & Fiscal Policies Human Development & Effective Political Institutions Endowments Productivity ultimately depends on improving the microeconomic capability of... View Details
    • Article

    Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights

    By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
    Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Rights; Monopoly; Business Startups
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    • August 2022
    • Article

    The U.S. Approach to Antitrust Policy in Technology Markets

    By: Shane Greenstein
    This report illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. approach to antitrust policy by drawing lessons from three cases: United States v. AT&T, United States v. Microsoft, and United States v. Google. The cases against AT&T and Microsoft are historical cases,... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Lawsuits and Litigation; Information Technology; Competition
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    Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

    Drug & Alcohol Policy Overview of HBS Substance Abuse Policies and Procedures Harvard Business School’s policy on drugs and alcohol—adapted from and in accordance with other... View Details
    • March 2013
    • Case

    Currency Wars

    By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White
    In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was speculated that certain countries were purposely devaluing their currencies in order to improve their competitiveness... View Details
    Keywords: Currency; Competitiveness; Trade Policy; Devaluation; Exchange Rate; Monetary Policy; Quantitative Easing; Inflation Targeting; Capital Flows; Central Banking; Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; Moscow
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    • 10 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

    growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • News

    Herzlinger Editorial Influences Federal Healthcare Policy

    • Mar 2012
    • Article

    Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy

    A free and fair global trading system can result in economic win-wins. Open borders allow companies to grow in foreign markets and, simultaneously, ensure that businesses remain competitive at home. That’s why U.S. View Details
    • 01 Dec 2002
    • News

    Clusters and Competition

    Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for Strategy and... View Details
    • July 2013 (Revised May 2017)
    • Case

    European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels
    The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Development Economics; Global Range; Policy; Failure; European Union; Europe
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    • January 2008
    • Article

    The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
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    • Research Summary

    Competition and Collusion in Ocean Shipping

    The liner shipping industry has been dominated by cartels since the late 19th century. Rich Sicotte's research builds on his 1997 Ph.D. thesis and employs analytical tools of industrial organization and economic history. He is examining the sources of variation in... View Details
    • 05 Oct 2017
    • News

    This is how gerrymandering affects US competitiveness