Monopoly - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

constituency can be given full satisfaction if the firm is to flourish and survive. Moreover, we can be sure, externalities and monopoly power aside, that using this value criterion will result in making society as well off as it can be.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

30 Jan 2014
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Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

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Adrian Obleton

like writing enough to go to law school. What is your favorite childhood memory? I remember learning how to do math when I was 5 or 6 by playing Monopoly with my dad. It's a controversial game, but it’s still my favorite to this day... View Details

18 Jul 2023
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Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

Google was a monopoly and if so, should it be regulated or broken up. His answer: ‘Our product is free to the consumer. We welcome any competitors.’” Questions were raised about how a platform-based high-tech company could be broken up.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, North Lobby, First Floor + More Info – Less Info British citizens from all walks of life invested in the South Sea Company: a public-private enterprise that was granted a trade monopoly with Spanish... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Education (1) Mining (1) Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising (1) Mission and Purpose (20) Mobile Technology (8) Money (4) Monopoly (6) Moral Sensibility (25) Motivation and Incentives (146) Multi-Sided Platforms (5) Multinational Firms... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Technological Innovation ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Knowledge Sharing ; Industry Growth ; Monopoly ; Organizational Culture ; Supply Chain Management ; Partners and Partnerships ; Risk and Uncertainty ; Adaptation ;... View Details

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Regional Winners - Alumni

faster to implement. Rajiv Singhal, MBA 2007, CEO & Founder Region: Europe and International Closing Theory Studios Closing Theory Studios is a mobile game development company creating games like Househunt, which combines elements of View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Research Brief: Staying in the Game

associate professor Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson (PhDBE 2013), discovered that many small business owners are operating under Monopoly rules in the real world, with bankruptcy considered a stigmatized,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law

By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns

For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other... View Details

Keywords: Lawfulness; Monopoly; Luxury; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; United States

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02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

off by disruptive technologies. Critics often argue that Microsoft can't innovate its way out of a paper bag—instead it has used its monopoly position to stamp out competition and force an industry to bend to its standards. But now comes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

of the same resource can increase a person’s power. Unions are one instance of this strategy; monopolies are another more extreme example—and can be problematic, the authors note. To weaken the power that others parties have on them,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

Nintendo essentially enjoyed a monopoly because Sony's PlayStation Portable had not yet entered the market. The researchers found that consumers might actually value the bundle less than they would value the individual component products,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

actions. Some of the media (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) they employ, however, represent a threat of monopoly that should be addressed by the very governments that, ironically, could turn big data against us. So say... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

asset that you can use to buy things, right now. It's the ultimate form of liquidity. But another thing that's important about money is that its supply is largely controlled by the government. Depending on which type of money supply you look at, the government has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

innovation are high in a monopoly situation, the firm will open both modules and use a pure OS model, because the quality improvement that occurs when modules are opened outweighs any potential competition. Q: But it's not always a good... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

of workmen and the public as a whole.” 10 Thus, while Parliament supported railroad entrepreneurs’ efforts to purchase private land, it also fostered competition and restricted regional monopolies as a way of serving the public good. The... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

an electric utility was actually looking forward to deregulation as a means of unfreezing a tradition-bound monopoly that was not adequately preparing for a more competitive future. But deregulation came slower than he anticipated and... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

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