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  • 2010
  • Mimeo

An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions

By: Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C. Stein and Samuel G. Hanson
We examine the impact of "substantially heightened" capital requirements on large financial institutions, and on their customers. Our analysis yields three main conclusions. First, the frictions associated with raising new external equity finance are likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Credit
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  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness."... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • March 2006
  • Background Note

A Note on Applying Dimensional Analysis to Understand Cost Drivers

Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Competitive Strategy
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  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • Web

Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Professor Kaplan teaches how time-driven activity-based costing is used in health care delivery organizations around the world. Length: 28 min. See All Media Videos Key Stakeholders Providers Stay competitive by adopting a strategic... View Details
  • May 2011
  • Article

Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera and Karim R. Lakhani
Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Applications and Software; Competition; Performance; Theory; Practice
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  • 28 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer
  • 2019
  • Chapter

Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a financial measure of the profitability of a firm or business unit. If it is greater than the business's cost of capital, then reinvestment of earnings increases shareholder VALUE. The ROIC also determines a maximum self-sustaining... View Details
Keywords: Capital Efficiency; Dupont Analysis; Financial Metrics; Schumpeterian Competition; Sustainable Growth; Competitive Advantage; Financial Strategy; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Value Creation
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  • Web

Cluster Studies - 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
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa

By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Base Of The Pyramid; Mobile Money; Inventory Management; Competition; Currency; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology
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  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US Competitiveness Surveys RELATED LINKS Survey results Survey methodology Watch Porter discuss the survey findings More US View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

Harvard Business School today released "Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided," a comprehensive analysis of the state of US competitiveness in 2016, based on five years of the US View Details
  • 11 May 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Time Dependency, Data Flow, and Competitive Advantage

Keywords: by Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Marco Iansiti, Newsha Ardalani, Feng Zhu, and Karim R. Lakhani
  • July 2011
  • Article

Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Despite the fact that China and Vietnam have been the world's two fastest growing economies over the past two decades, their income inequality patterns are very different. In this paper, we take a deep look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Developing Countries and Economies; Motivation and Incentives; Government and Politics; Policy; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Income; China; Viet Nam
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than China and Vietnam. But while China's income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam's has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants... View Details
Keywords: Income Characteristics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government and Politics; Equality and Inequality; China; Viet Nam
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  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

things and keep what works.” It is not by chance that nearly all of their private sector examples come from high tech, where employees are being trained in large numbers to routinely conduct experiments that appear to provide enterprise agility and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • Web

Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Associate Arturo Condo is President of INCAE Business School ( www.incae.edu ), a leading business school and think-tank in Latin America. He is a Full Professor in business strategy, international business, and competitiveness as well as... View Details
  • Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
  • 08 May 2015
  • News

Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness

Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, believes all businesses—both established and startup—must embrace digital transformation. Iansiti’s analysis of innovation in digital technology at General Electric,... View Details