• May 2022
• Supplement

Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East

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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-400, May 2022.

• January 2007
• Case

AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation

By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley

AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Price; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry

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Ofek, Elie, and Lauren Barley. "AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 507-037, January 2007.

• 14 Mar 2012
• News

Prizes Abound but Best Path to Tech Innovation Is Unclear

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

Eligibility Social Enterprise Track Course Listing Business at the Base of the Pyramid (HBS) Data for Impact (HBS) Education Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (HGSE) Entrepreneurial Solutions (HBS)... View Details

• 18 Apr 2019
• Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the crowdsourcing contest and the potential... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

• 13 Jul 2011
• News

NASA Tournament Lab: Open Innovation On-Demand

• 04 Mar 2014
• Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

• 2021
• Working Paper

The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition

By: Marco Iansiti

Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to... View Details

Keywords: Online Platforms; Data Network Effects; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Competition; Digital Platforms

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Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.

• Web

Teams | New Venture Competition

technological innovation with social and economic impact The Paal Manali Jain (MPP 2025) Shivam Johri Enabling smallholder women farmers to harness the full potential of livestock farming Zest Health Darren Chin (MDE 2025) Akhil Dayal... View Details

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Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that will... View Details

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States

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Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano, and Pian Shu. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." American Economic Review: Insights 2, no. 3 (September 2020): 357–374.

• 01 Sep 2014
• News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details

• 30 Apr 2013
• News

HBS New Venture Competition Finale Takes Place Today

• 23 Jul 2001
• Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the cluster. I use the term 'active inertia' to describe the tendency... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Judging | New Venture Competition

address and can be sustained for a period of time consistent with achieving the desired social impact. (If growing the organization is not the preferred strategy, the program is transferable and replicable.) Concept (35% of score) Idea/Concept The concept reflects an... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

events.... October 2021 Article Value Chain Management to Implement Post–COVID-19 Health Care Strategy: The COVID-19 Crisis has Created Areas of Innovation that Should be Embraced by Health Care Leaders Value Chain Management to Implement... View Details