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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

labels 'international' and 'domestic' no longer apply." His globalization program, often summarized under the tagline "think global, act global," had included an unprecedented amount of standardization. By the time he... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • Article

Strategy Through a Ghemawat Lens: Honoring and Building on the Contributions of Pankaj Ghemawat

By: Bruno Cassiman, Tarun Khanna and Daniel A. Levinthal
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Cassiman, Bruno, Tarun Khanna, and Daniel A. Levinthal. "Strategy Through a Ghemawat Lens: Honoring and Building on the Contributions of Pankaj Ghemawat." Special Issue on Strategy Through a Ghemawat Lens: Honoring and Building on the Contributions of Pankaj Ghemawat. Strategy Science 7, no. 2 (June 2022): 71–74.
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat has long argued that the best international strategy also includes recognition of differences in local markets. In the December 2005 issue of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Commitment, Capabilities, and Strategy: A Personal Essay in Honor of Pankaj Ghemawat

By: Gary P. Pisano
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Pisano, Gary P. "Commitment, Capabilities, and Strategy: A Personal Essay in Honor of Pankaj Ghemawat." Special Issue on Strategy Through a Ghemawat Lens: Honoring and Building on the Contributions of Pankaj Ghemawat. Strategy Science 7, no. 2 (June 2022): 152–155.
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

The assumption that industries will become more concentrated as they become more global, that the global economy is a winner-take-all economy, has become common wisdom. But, according to Pankaj Ghemawat and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 2015
  • Chapter

The Value of Breadth and the Importance of Differences

By: David J. Collis
Honoring Pankaj Ghemawat's receipt of an Academy of Management award, this chapter examines his contribution to the global strategy field. It notes the continuing importance of country differences to international strategy and how geographic scope contributes to... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Pankaj Ghemawat; Multinationals; Globalization; Management; Strategy
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Collis, David J. "The Value of Breadth and the Importance of Differences." In Emerging Economies and Multinational Enterprises. Vol. 28, edited by Laszlo Tihanyi, Elitsa R. Banalieva, Timothy M. Devinney, and Torben Pedersen, 29–33. Advances in International Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2015.
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard Business School professors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

theoretical model that looks beyond its idiosyncratic elements. Looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products.— Pankaj View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Real Conflict

the benefits of those “everyday low prices” and, by extension, where the real conflict lies. — Ghemawat is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Mark is the managing... View Details
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Case Study as an Academic Methodology

By: David J. Collis
Pankaj Ghemawat made contributions to the strategy field with his application of case research as an academic methodology. View Details
Keywords: Case Research Methods; Case Method; Case Teaching; Cases; Teaching; Education Industry
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Collis, David J. "The Case Study as an Academic Methodology." Strategy Science (forthcoming).
  • July 2006
  • Article

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Software; Demand-side Learning; Network Effects; Linux; Mixed Duopoly; Competitive Dynamics; Business Models; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Model; Mathematical Methods; Digital Platforms; Profit; Balance and Stability; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; SWOT Analysis; Competition; Price; Information Technology Industry
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows." Management Science 52, no. 7 (July 2006): 1072–1084.
  • 2003
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-012, August 2003.
  • 1980
  • Mimeo

The Generation of Industrial Technology by the Less Developed Countries

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Louis T Wells Jr
Keywords: Information Technology; Developing Countries and Economies
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Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Louis T Wells Jr. "The Generation of Industrial Technology by the Less Developed Countries." Council on Science and Technology, January 1980. Mimeo.
  • Research Summary

FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS STRATEGY

Pankaj Ghemawat is involved in an ongoing stream of research and course development on the foundations of business strategy. Recent work has included the application of game theory to business strategy, as reported in the book Games Businesses Play, and the... View Details
  • 2011
  • Casebook

Cases about Redefining Global Strategy

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel
In "Cases about Redefining Global Strategy," Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan Siegel have assembled 26 full-length case studies as a resource for active learning about the nature of cross-border differences and strategies. As technology innovation globalizes markets and... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; International Business; Cases; Strategy; Globalization
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Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Jordan I. Siegel. Cases about Redefining Global Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing, 2011.
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Industry Dynamics Following Competitive Shocks

Robert E. Kennedy and Pankaj Ghemawat are using industrial organization theory to study industrial development in countries that have undergone major competitive shocks. Their goal is to develop a set of hypotheses regarding how industry factors effect change in entry... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

by seeing the world as it really is, rather than in idealized terms." Ghemawat explained more via e-mail with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: The subtitle of your book is "Crossing Borders in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

executives often fail to exploit market and production discrepancies, focusing instead on the tensions between standardization and localization. In this article, Pankaj Ghemawat presents a new framework that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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