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15 Feb 2012
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Will Business Step Up or Step Out?

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Freitas, J., and L. J. Rips. "Is Personal Identity Intransitive?" Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 775–786. February 2025 Supplement Kwame Spearman at Tattered Cover By: Ryan Raffaelli Keywords: Retail ; Leadership ; Leading Change ;... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

Jeremy S. Friedman

Jeremy S. Friedman is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit and taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum over the past six years. Currently, he is teaching Business and... View Details

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

20 Aug 2015
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What Are the Strengths and Weaknesses that Affect America’s Competitiveness?

August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

HCL Technologies (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Tarun Khanna and Emily Stecker

When Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competition; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; India

October 1996 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Saturn Corporation in 1996

Briefly describes the competitive position of the Saturn Corp. in 1996. General Motors has recently announced plans to introduce a mid-sized model under the Saturn brand name. Also provides an update on Saturn's small-car position. View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; United States

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29 Sep 2014
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Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter

Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Regional Strategy; Industry Clusters; Economics; Minneapolis; United States

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November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Can Florida Orange Growers Survive Globalization?

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan

Florida Citrus Department has to deal with increasing competition from Brazil. What position should the industry take on its existing tariff? Who benefits? Who loses? View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Price; Globalized Markets and Industries; Goods and Commodities; Competition; Competitive Strategy

13 Dec 2015
News

The Truest Measure of America's Progress

January 1992 (Revised February 1992)
Case

Quantum Corp.: Business and Product Teams

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Clayton M. Christensen

Describes the adoption and evolution of product development teams and business teams at Quantum. Emphasizes integration of team capabilities with product development and competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Groups and Teams; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Consumer Products Industry

October 1984 (Revised March 1999)
Case

NIKE (E)

Provides the background for a discussion of Nike (E1), (E2), and (E3). Outlines Nike's senior management group's early program to deal with the company's increasingly difficult competitive circumstance. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Competition; Situation or Environment; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

for creating public policies that actively assist these companies in their early stages, or even in their more-established stages. The nation should definitely consider a regulation that makes entrepreneurial, job-creating companies healthier and more View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

30 Mar 2022
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Get to Know the 2022 NVC Business Track Finalists

2020
Book

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Technological Innovation; Change; Competition; Strategy; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; AI and Machine Learning

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January 1974 (Revised October 1975)
Case

MRC, Inc. (B)

MRC, Inc. faces a decision regarding entry into the production of polyester fiber in competition with much larger firms. An updated version of an earlier case by J.H. McArthur. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Manufacturing Industry

3 Aug 2001
Other Presentation

New Zealand Competitiveness: The Next Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter

Competitiveness presentation at the "Catching the Knowledge Wave Conference," Auckland, New Zealand. View Details

Keywords: Economics; New Zealand