Competitors - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

cofounded Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based startup that streamlines the processes for applying for a marriage green card—permission for a US citizen’s non-citizen spouse to live and work permanently in the United States—and US citizenship. (In September, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

outside the banking system. BancoSol's success has spawned competitors in both the nonprofit and formal financial sectors that are eager to serve microentrepreneurs. Every Bolivian political party now includes microenterprise as part of... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

comparisons of performance among industry competitors and to measure whether owners could actually affect performance over time." Kang's data reveal that there were 81 publicly held U.S. textile firms in 1983 whereas by 1992 only 47 such... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Feb 2002
News

Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty

time," Tumulty recalls. "The paper was owned by Hearst, and our chief competitor was published by Rupert Murdoch. It was a classic newspaper war, with dueling headlines along the lines of 'Baby Eats LSD' and 'Pregnant Cat Gunned Down.'"... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

worldwide. CompetitorsDemonstrating your knowledge of a company’s competitors will show that you have an understanding of the firm’s competitive position in the market. OneSource Global Express provides a link that identifies top... View Details

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

knowledge accumulation among competitors affect MNEs' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two competing firms with different capabilities simultaneously decide a sequence of market... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

while the startup won’t have the same advantage over its competitors once it moves beyond cyber-insurance, Iram and Itskovich believe the company’s nimble, data-driven approach will continue to give it an edge. “We can still automate the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

services flow from the company to customers. Money flows in the reverse direction, from customers to the company and from the company to suppliers. Along the horizontal dimension are the company's competitors and complementors . . . . A... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

817-068 Swagbucks In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

that its future competitors are likely to be Facebook and Google and not BMW and Toyota." “We talk about why Google would buy Nest—a thermostat company—and how it is also getting into the car business” Students use the HBS Open Forum... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details

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Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

allies or adversaries. The contemporary brandscape is crowded with new competitors vying to stake claims to rich, meaning-laden value propositions that reflect and leverage the zeitgeist. Iconic brands are toppled everyday by young... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

17 Apr 2015
News

A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

life—not to be quiet because my boss or my competitor or colleague is fascinating me. It’s not a reason to be quiet and shut up.” After graduating, Herlaut found occasion to speak up—in her actions—after a prestigious firm passed her over... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

the industry and dominated it for nearly 20 years, the well-respected company faces a bevy of new entrants from the banking, mortgage finance, and insurance sectors. In particular, management must decide how to respond to an aggressive new View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

panelists where search competitors could gain the most distinct advantage. "I think for us at Yahoo right now, we see an opportunity in helping users manage their personal information," said Bradley Horowitz, director of Yahoo's... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its customers were approached by View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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