Publications

June 2002
Article

Identity Crisis: CEO James Adamson needs to figure out what Kmart is and how to manage its competition

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Identity; Management; Competition; Consumer Products Industry

August 2018
Article

The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe

By: Fiona M. Scott Morton, Ariel Dora Stern and Scott Stern

Biologics represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have been approved in the U.S. since 2015, thereby... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Biosimilars; Biologics; Pharmaceutical Competition; Healthcare Spending; Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Europe

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UrSure, Inc. wins 2016 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

UrSure, Inc. wins 2016 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Consumer Inertia and Market Power

By: Alexander MacKay and Marc Remer

We study the pricing decisions of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia, which can arise from habit formation, brand loyalty, and switching costs, generates dynamic pricing incentives. These incentives mediate the impact of competition on market power in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Inertia; Market Power; Dynamic Competition; Demand Estimation; Consumer Behavior; Markets; Performance; Competition; Price

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2006
Book Review

Book Review of 'What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments' by Robert Frank

By: Nien-he Hsieh

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Meet the 2021 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2013
Report

The Brink of Renewal: A Business Leader's Guide to Progress in America's Schools

By: Jan Rivkin, Meg Sommerfeld, Linda Jacobson, Lisa Rosenthal, David Ruenzel, Sara Allan, Tyce Henry and Allen Grossman

This report focuses on the current state of U.S. PK-12 education. It highlights the converging trends that make this a special, promising moment in education reform. View Details

Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; PK - 12 Education; Competition; Education; United States

March 2005
Article

Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of Decision Making: A Study of Auction Fever in Live and Internet Auctions

By: Gillian Ku, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan

Keywords: Competition; Decision Making; Auctions; Online Technology

Editorial

What the Greek Elections Mean for the Economy

By: George Serafeim

Keywords: Europe; European Union; Competitiveness; National Strategy; Politics; Competition; Government and Politics; European Union; Europe

October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
Teaching Note

Logoplaste: Global Growing Challenges (TN)

By: Juan Alcacer

The case follows Logoplaste in its transformation from a small player in the plastic container industry in Portugal to a mid-sized global firm with operations in 11 countries. The case summarizes Logoplaste's history, with an emphasis on the milestones of its global... View Details

Keywords: R＆D; Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Operations Strategy; Global Strategy; Competition; Operations; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

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21 Nov 2015
News

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman review – rethinking history

February 2017
Teaching Note

Paez

By: Jill Avery

Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy category that suddenly woke up when TOMS, a U.S. company, appropriated the traditional alpargata design, covered it with fashionable colors and prints, and tied it to a social cause.... View Details

Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Positioning; Competitive Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Retailing; Go To Market Strategy; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Argentina; Latin America; South America; Europe

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Congratulations to the HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists! | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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By: Robert Simons

Professor Simons is currently studying how executives make their businesses more competitive using innovative structural designs and performance measurement systems. He has a number of ongoing research projects on this topic, and teaches MBA and executive education... View Details

Keywords: Strategy Execution; Organization Design; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Competitiveness

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HBS Names Winners and Celebrates 20th New Venture Competition at Finale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2014
Working Paper

Profits and Economic Development

By: Dan Schwab and Eric Werker

Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that... View Details

Keywords: Firm Performance; Rent; Mark-up; Competition; Manufacturing; Development Economics; Profit; Economic Growth; Renting or Rental

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