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  • November 2014 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

DoubleDutch

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Matthew G. Preble
Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad, co-founders of the event solution startup DoubleDutch, have to make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. DoubleDutch's key product was a mobile application (app) and event management platform that... View Details
Keywords: Sales Management; Selling; Marketing Management; Strategy Implementation; Business Marketing; Sales Force Management; Salesforce Management; Marketing; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Technology Industry; United States; Europe; Asia
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    Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market

    This paper studies the impact of platform-owner entry threat on complementors in platform-based markets. We examine how app developers on the Android mobile platform adjust innovation efforts (rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to the threat... View Details
    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference

    By: Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery and Anat Keinan
    In this chapter, we explore how brands' relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency.... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; CRM; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competition; Consumer Products Industry
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    • November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

    By: José B. Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno
    Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a... View Details
    Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Information Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America
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    • October 2017
    • Article

    Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
    Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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    • 02 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

    Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf
    • Web

    The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence From a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

    By: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe and Benjamin N. Roth
    Social norms have been shown to facilitate anti-competitive behavior in decentralized markets. We demonstrate that these norms can also reduce aggregate profits. First, we present descriptive evidence of competition-suppressing norms in Kolkata vegetable markets.... View Details
    Keywords: Collusion; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Small Business; Microeconomics; Kolkata
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    • 26 Dec 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet
    • 28 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

    world invest in US listed companies because the US legal regime offers a high level of investor protection. High quality auditing is a big part of this protection. When our investor protections standards go up, our capital markets become... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
    • February 2000
    • Article

    Location, Competition and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Keywords: Competition; Economics; Growth and Development; Global Range; Geographic Location; Economy
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    • February 2015 (Revised May 2015)
    • Case

    Boeing 787: Manufacturing a Dream

    By: Rory McDonald and Suresh Kotha
    This case traces the design and development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Emphasis is on executive leadership and firm strategy in coordinating across a global network of partners in the production of a new aircraft. View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Operations Strategy; Project Management; Coordination; Product Development; Operations; Production; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Aerospace Industry; United States
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      The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19

      The Lancet COVID-19 Commission was an interdisciplinary initiative encompassing the health sciences, business, finance, and public policy. The Lancet COVID-19... View Details
      • November 2022
      • Case

      The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
      Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
      Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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      • 24 Feb 2020
      • News

      Three HBS Faculty Members Win Awards in Global Case Centre Competition

      • December 2004
      • Article

      A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets

      By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
      Keywords: Global Range; Perspective; Capital; Decision Choices and Conditions; Markets
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      • 2008 - 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      Organizational Identity as an Anchor for Adaptation: An Emerging Market Perspective

      By: Andres Hatum, Luciana Silvestri and Roberto Vassolo
      There is little doubt that organizational identity—that which is central, distinctive, and enduring about an organization—mediates in adaptive processes. Exactly how this mediation takes place, and whether it is favorable or unfavorable to adaptation, must still be... View Details
      Keywords: Identity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Strategy; Emerging Markets
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      • Web

      The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

      The new industrial state? Global Leadership Roundtable Washington, DC February 2024 In partnership with the NobleReach Foundation More Global Leadership Roundtables The future of American economic policy On... View Details
      • 25 Apr 2014
      • News

      A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential

      Believing in the importance of a global experience for young people, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) created Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that is forging a new educational pathway for America’s... View Details
      • August 2015 (Revised February 2020)
      • Teaching Note

      Qihoo

      By: Feng Zhu
      Keywords: Platform Strategy; Business Model Innovation; Chinese Internet Market; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; China
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