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  • 06 May 2013
  • News

U.S. competitiveness hinges on the strength of small business suppliers

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VBHCD Intensive Seminars - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Professor Porter and the institute have developed a weeklong, intensive seminar focused on frameworks, application tools, and case studies highlighting real-life examples of organizations moving toward value-based care delivery models.... View Details
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Elizabeth Teisberg show how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

and one of those questions concerns the future competitiveness of the United States as a business location and its influence on the rest of the world," said Nohria. "As we continue to move from an American... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 22 Mar 2023
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces New Venture Competition Finalists in Student Business, Social Enterprise, and Alumni Tracks

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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

they will benefit from healthy and sustainable competition. Several leading suppliers are refocusing their efforts to achieve value when they introduce new products and drugs. The move to paying for value will mean that the pricing... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

starting global ventures. "The VC quickly replied that there is no distinction anymore," Kerr says. "Even if the startup is based solely in Boston, the world and competition move so fast that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

retail drugstores and 215,000 employees operating in 47 states in 2015. Since 2006, the company had been expanding its role in health care, moving beyond traditional drugstore alone. In 2014, reflecting its new approach, the company... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

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

reliant on the internet and cloud for their existence. “There is a softening of attitudes towards quants in today’s organization,” Tahir Qazi commented. “ As more people with an experimentation mindset and grooming move across... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

By: Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun and B.Y. Cheon
The organizational theory of the multinational firm holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Human Capital; Selection and Staffing; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Markets; Profit; Gender; South Korea
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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

The organizational theory of the multinational firms holds that foreignness is a liability, and specifically that lack of embeddedness in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage; meanwhile the literature on labor market discrimination... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firm; Multinationals; Labor Market Discrimination
  • Article

The Re-Industrialization of the United States?

By: Willy C. Shih
Talk of "re-industrialization" in the United States has been supported by a seeming resurgence in manufacturing, but this is driven more by the end of labor arbitrage and increasing coordination costs of offshore manufacturing. Aggressive restructurings and significant... View Details
Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Re-industrialization; Re-shoring; Operations; Production; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Geographic Location; Geography; Globalization; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Labor; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China; European Union
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  • 18 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

magnifies the effectiveness of a promotion." Shoppers, fill your baskets The study showed that shoppers spent 9.4 percent more when they need to meet a free-shipping minimum. However, there were 6.4 percent fewer purchases overall when the company View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and of policies that can sustainably raise a location’s prosperity level. The paper outlines key elements of the competitiveness framework and discusses... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Cluster; Development; Growth; Economic Policy; Competition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy
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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Value Measurement for He... Value Measurement for Health Care 5-7 Aug 2019 Executive Education Course Learn More Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve patient... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall) November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve... View Details
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Residents & Fellows Course - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and the institute have developed a two and one half day seminar focused on frameworks, application tools, and case studies highlighting real-life examples of organizations moving toward value-based care delivery models targeted towards... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

their portfolio, it does not involve complicated coordination. Some actions can bring immediate, measurable benefits—if not a chip supplier to substitute for one in Japan, then perhaps a start-up with a better idea. The concept should enjoy widespread bipartisan... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully

By: Willy C. Shih
The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing Costs; Manufacturing Strategy; U.S. Competitiveness; Competitiveness; Labor Force Participation; Labor Management; Trade; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Manufacturing Industry; United States; China
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