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- December 2022 (Revised February 2025)
- Module Note
How Do You Compete and Cooperate? Understanding Strategic Interactions
By: Jorge Tamayo
This module examines how firms interact strategically, both competitively and cooperatively, as they create and capture value. Although the module focuses on strategic interactions between competitors, an organization's relationships with buyers, suppliers, and... View Details
Tamayo, Jorge. "How Do You Compete and Cooperate? Understanding Strategic Interactions." Harvard Business School Module Note 723-406, December 2022. (Revised February 2025.)
- 1995
- Book
The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity
By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright
Keywords: Product Development
Clark, K. B. and S. C. Wheelwright, eds. The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
- March 1990
- Teaching Note
Operations Strategy, Module Overview: Competing on New Products and Processes
By: David A. Garvin
- 12 Dec 2002
- Conference Presentation
Performing at a Higher Level Building Your Company's Ethical Competency
By: Lynn S. Paine
Keywords: Ethics
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which featured an American League... View Details
- spring 1987
- Article
The Capital Factor: Competing for Capital in a Global Environment
- January 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Module Note
Competing through Business Models (C): Interdependence, Tactical & Strategic Interaction
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competing through Business Models (C): Interdependence, Tactical & Strategic Interaction." Harvard Business School Module Note 708-476, January 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- 1994
- Chapter
The Product Development Imperative: Competing in the New Industrial Marathon
By: K. B. Clark and T. Fujimoto
Clark, K. B., and T. Fujimoto. "The Product Development Imperative: Competing in the New Industrial Marathon." In The Relevance of a Decade: Essays to Mark the First Ten Years of the Harvard Business School Press, edited by Paula B. Duffy. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.
- June 2023
- Simulation
Clash of Two Giants: Competing in the Age of Platforms Simulation
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
Want to be different? Change your world, not your tactics. As HBS professor Youngme Moon argues in Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, competition too often breeds conformity. Yet there is plenty of space for adventurous companies keen to break free of the pack.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In today's global digital and... View Details
- May 2001
- Article
Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese History
By: Mariko Sakakibara and Michael E. Porter
The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market-share instability rather than employing structural variables such as... View Details
Sakakibara, Mariko, and Michael E. Porter. "Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese History." Review of Economics and Statistics 83, no. 2 (May 2001).
- February 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Course Overview Note
Competing through Business Models: Introductory Note for Students (Half-Course Version)
By: Hanna Halaburda and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Halaburda, Hanna, and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell. "Competing through Business Models: Introductory Note for Students (Half-Course Version)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 711-489, February 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- February 2021
- Teaching Note
Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa
By: Mark Egan
- July 2008 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to fund silicon process R&D, and it faced huge capital... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Andrew A. King. "Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-002, July 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- September–October 2017
- Article
Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?: Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence
By: Raffaella Sadun, Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen
A recurring message in business education is that you can’t compete on the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Effectiveness
Sadun, Raffaella, Nicholas Bloom, and John Van Reenen. "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? Neither Great Leadership Nor Brilliant Strategy Matters Without Operational Excellence." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 120–127. (Winner of 59th Annual HBR McKinsey Award.)
- Article
Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules
By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that appear to preclude their approach. The rule-flouting phenomenon is something we call "spontaneous private deregulation," and it is not new. Benign or otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Deregulation; Innovation And Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin. "Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 80–87.
- 2016
- Chapter
Competent but Cold: The Stereotype Content Model and Envy in Organizations
By: Elizabeth Baily Wolf and Peter Glick
Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, and Peter Glick. "Competent but Cold: The Stereotype Content Model and Envy in Organizations." Chap. 6 in Envy at Work and in Organizations, edited by Richard H. Smith, Ugo Merlone, and Michelle K. Duffy, 143–164. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.