Competitive Positioning - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2016
Blog Post

Favorite Memories from HBS

Wat, and stargaze from our tents inside the Grand Canyon. This kind of traveling is the source of some of the most precious memories that I’ll take away from HBS. But, of course, not all my memories are positive in tone: we saw each other... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

Latin America's woes and achievements — from the Argentine economic crisis to a host of business success stories — were the focus of “Sources of Competitive Advantage in Latin America,” held March 2 at HBS. The eighth annual Latin... View Details

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Jonathan Assayag

Player two years in a row. More importantly, he says, "My school is still competing in the competition today, and the robotics program has become a key differentiator against the public high schools in the region." Jonathan... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

minutes before class that he will be asked to speak. The opening question—usually one from the assignment—typically requires taking a position or making a recommendation. Since as much as 50 percent of their grade is based on class... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time, result in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

former president of both the Harvard Club and the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago. When asked why he works so hard for the School, Wong responds, “There's an old Chinese proverb that says, ‘Drink water, ponder source.' Harvard has had a View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

performance, says Campbell. While that may be hard to do, it may also be worth it, with positive benefits for the company, its clients, its employees, and its customers. “It’s these very changes that can provide a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed! Overall, 40 percent felt that DTCA had a View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

powerful in explaining quarterly sales growth, revenue surprises, and earnings surprises, generating average excess returns at announcement of 3.4%. However, surprisingly, our post-quarter measure is related negatively to announcement returns and View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2024
Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

and GEICO continued to gain ground on industry leaders State Farm and Allstate, which sold less than 5% of their policies direct. In 2013, Progressive hoped to revolutionize the purchasing of auto insurance and to build its competitive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond Accommodation

to be blind can perform as well as anyone else. Gibbons hopes his own example will inspire other blind people to reach beyond traditionally “blind” occupations — in advocacy, rehabilitation, or service positions — to consider careers in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas. However, we posit that slack time such as school breaks may be qualitatively different than work time because contiguous blocks may be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16 days, according to the World... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

March 2016
Case

IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details