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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Competitive Advantages
The School's US Competitiveness Project held events in Silicon Valley and Chicago in the fall. At top, Professor William A. Sahlman leads a discussion on entrepreneurship with Northern California business leaders Mary Meeker, a partner at...
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Competitiveness
- March 2014
- Course Overview Note
Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
This note gives an overview (for instructors) of the MBA elective course "Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage" (CSCA). The course gives students a deep dive on competitive advantage, on its relation to overall strategic performance (defined as performance...
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- February 2017 (Revised February 2022)
- Background Note
Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
This note gives students a systematic and comprehensive framework for analyzing and developing competitive advantage. It pays explicit attention to both creating and sustaining advantage and considers both alignment and assets as sources of advantage.
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Keywords:
Scope;
Scale;
Competitive Dynamics;
Value Proposition;
Bargaining Power;
Competitive Advantage;
Assets;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Design
Van den Steen, Eric. "Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 717-479, February 2017. (Revised February 2022.)
- January 1998 (Revised February 2006)
- Background Note
Creating Competitive Advantage
By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jan W. Rivkin
A firm such as Schering-Plough that earns superior, long-run financial returns within its industry is said to enjoy a competitive advantage over its rivals. This note examines the logic of how firms create competitive advantage. It emphasizes two themes: First, to...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Management;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Value Creation;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Creating Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 798-062, January 1998. (Revised February 2006.)
- Research Summary
Evolution of Competitive Advantage
Anita M. McGahan is studying the evolution of competitive advantage among firms in a cross section of industries. She is particularly interested in the structural conditions that enable firms to develop an enduring competitive advantage in new markets. McGahan has...
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- 26 May 2021
- News
AI’s Competitive Advantage
- Research Summary
Organizations with Dual Competitive Advantage
A close examination of several leading US service firms illustrates an unusual competitive phenomenon in that these firms are both cost and service leaders in their industries. My research documents this phenomenon, critically analyzing it in light of strategic and...
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- 1990
- Book
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
By: M. E. Porter
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth.
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Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York: Free Press, 1990. (Republished with a new introduction, 1998.)
- March 2014
- Technical Note
Sustainability of Competitive Advantage
This note introduces a framework for analyzing the sustainability of competitive advantage. (While it applies more broadly, it was developed as a component of the PVA framework.)
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Van den Steen, Eric. "Sustainability of Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Technical Note 714-489, March 2014.
- 13 May 2003
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Advantage of Regions." Indiana Leadership Summit, Indianapolis, IN, May 13, 2003.
- 27 Feb 2004
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Regions
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2001,...
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Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Advantage of Regions." Columbus Partnership Retreat, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, February 27, 2004.
- March–April 1990
- Article
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
By: M. E. Porter
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth.
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Keywords:
Competition
Porter, M. E. "The Competitive Advantage of Nations." Harvard Business Review 68, no. 2 (March–April 1990): 73–93.
- June 2005 (Revised September 2008)
- Class Lecture
Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
By: Bharat N. Anand, Stephen P. Bradley, Pankaj Ghemawat, Tarun Khanna, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Michael G. Rukstad, John R. Wells and David B. Yoffie
It's great to have a blockbuster quarter or a revolutionary product or service, but true business excellence demands sustainability. Maintaining your competitive advantage requires a strategy that makes your business unique and carries you forward as the world around...
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Competitive Advantage
- 2012
- Working Paper
Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage
This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We...
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Halaburda, Hanna, and Yaron Yehezkel. "Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-066, February 2012.
- May 1990
- Book
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth.
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- 2013
- Chapter
Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
This chapter reviews the main theories in strategic management that seek to explain persistent differences in profitability across companies. We argue that these differences are ultimately explained by market imperfections. Studying differences in financial performance...
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Keywords:
Strategic Management;
Market Imperfections;
Five Forces Framework;
Competitive Advantage;
Profit
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Chap. 12 in Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics, by Christopher R. Thomas and William F. Shughart II, 262–277. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- winter 1985
- Article
Technology and Competitive Advantage
By: M. E. Porter
Porter, M. E. "Technology and Competitive Advantage." Journal of Business Strategy 5, no. 3 (winter 1985).
- 31 Jul 2001
- Other Presentation
The Competitive Advantage of Taiwan
Competitiveness presentation from the Commonwealth Speech, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Porter, Michael E. "The Competitive Advantage of Taiwan." Commonwealth Speech, Taipei, Taiwan, July 31, 2001.
- Research Summary
Managing Human Resources for Competitive Advantage
This stream of research is leading to a study of companies that are gaining competitive advantage through their ability to attract, recruit, develop, deploy, and retain superior human resources. The objective is to develop a more strategically-based and general...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage
that veterans didn’t know they had. “We work for employers who hire veterans as a way to gain competitive advantage,” he notes. “We’re a for-profit company; there’s no charity here. Veterans make great employees.” (Published August 2015)
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