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  • May 1998
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Market Structure, Innovation and Vertical Product Differentiation

By: Shane Greenstein and Garey Ramey
We reassess Arrow's (1962) [Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention, in NBER, The Rate and Direction of Innovative Activity (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ)] results concerning the effect of market structure on the returns from process... View Details
Keywords: Product; Market Design; Innovation and Invention; Monopoly; Competition
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Greenstein, Shane, and Garey Ramey. "Market Structure, Innovation and Vertical Product Differentiation." International Journal of Industrial Organization 16, no. 3 (May 1998): 285–311.
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Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs

By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study a duopoly model where consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition... View Details
Keywords: Duopoly and Oligopoly; Customers; Quality; Product Positioning; Competition; Management; Cost; Product
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Lauga, Dominique, and Elie Ofek. "Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs." Marketing Science 30, no. 5 (September–October 2011): 903–923.
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Multi-Product Duopoly With Cross-Product Cost Interdependencies

By: Gary Biglaiser and Andrei Hagiu
Many multi-product firms incur a complexity fixed cost when offering different product lines in different quality tiers relative to the case when offering all products lines in the same quality tier (high or low). Such fixed costs create an interdependency between... View Details
Keywords: Multi-product Duopoly; Vertical Differentiation; Fixed Costs; Cost; Profit; Business Strategy; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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Biglaiser, Gary, and Andrei Hagiu. "Multi-Product Duopoly With Cross-Product Cost Interdependencies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-010, July 2015.
  • 19 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Dennis Carlton, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  • November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

DaChan Food (Asia) in China

By: Ray A. Goldberg and David Lane
DaChan Food in China is providing leadership in the quality, health, and environmental needs of the Chinese consumer as poultry consumption increases there. Continuing to provide that leadership as global and national competition increase becomes more and more... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Food; Leadership Development; Demand and Consumers; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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Goldberg, Ray A., and David Lane. "DaChan Food (Asia) in China." Harvard Business School Case 910-401, November 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
  • March 2021
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Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products

By: Alberto Cavallo and Diego Aparicio
We study the impact of targeted price controls for supermarket products in Argentina from 2007 to 2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and... View Details
Keywords: Prices; Controls; Price Dispersion; Economics; Price; Cost Management; Goods and Commodities; Retail Industry; Argentina
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Cavallo, Alberto, and Diego Aparicio. "Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products." Review of Economics and Statistics 103, no. 1 (March 2021): 60–71.
  • October 2013
  • Case

Pearle Vision: Clearly Different?

By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
Ohio-based optical retailer Pearle Vision, part of the vertically integrated Italian eyewear group Luxottica, sold glasses and offered in-store eye exams. Once the largest U.S. optical retailer, Pearle Vision, with 266 corporate stores and 356 franchised stores in... View Details
Keywords: Eye Care; Competitive Advantage; Market Participation; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States
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Lal, Rajiv, and Natalie Kindred. "Pearle Vision: Clearly Different?" Harvard Business School Case 514-015, October 2013.
  • August 2012
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership
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Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 3 (August 2012): 30–55. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 17141.)
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2008
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The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

Keywords: by Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael & Alvin J. Silk; Advertising

    Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

    We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to... View Details
    • 2001
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    Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
    We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Competition; Competitive Strategy
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-026, September 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
    • September 2010
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    Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
    We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Models; Tactics; Pricing; Business Model; Advertising; Competition; Quality; Price; Product Marketing
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals." Management Science 56, no. 9 (September 2010): 1484–1499.
    • 08 Jul 2010
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    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The Effect of Supply Chain Complementarities on Local Food

    By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
    We study the operational tradeoffs of a retailer and farmers in a fresh produce supply chain to determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Ata, Baris, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak. "The Effect of Supply Chain Complementarities on Local Food." Working Paper, December 2012.
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
    We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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    Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-110, June 2010.
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Competing Complements

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie
    In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Revenue; Monopoly; Game Theory; Competition
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    Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Barry Nalebuff, and David B. Yoffie. "Competing Complements." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-009, July 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
    • November – December 2011
    • Article

    Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software

    By: Vineet Kumar, Brett Gordon and Kannan Srinivasan
    Commercial open source software (COSS) products-privately developed software based on publicly available source code-represent a rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition in the COSS market is that many open source licenses require... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Product Development; Growth and Development; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Quality; Policy; Perspective; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Emerging Markets
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    Kumar, Vineet, Brett Gordon, and Kannan Srinivasan. "Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software." Marketing Science 30, no. 6 (November–December 2011): 1066–1078.
    • 2012
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    Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

    By: Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich... View Details
    Keywords: Property Rights; Property; Rights; Investment; Contracts; Revenue; Motivation and Incentives; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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    Kuppuswamy, Venkat, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-007, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
    • 28 Feb 2017
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    First Look at New Research, February 28

    that when Craigslist enters a newspaper’s market, the newspaper repositions itself away from other newspapers by changing its content. This results in greater differentiation between newspapers in a market but occurs primarily in markets... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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