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- April 2020 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increased ten times, and both EBITDA and revenues had grown...
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Value Capturing;
Pricing Strategy;
Supplier Power;
Buyer Power;
Porter's Five Forces;
Bargaining Power;
Aerospace;
Acquisition Strategy;
Value Drivers;
Ethical Behavior;
Regulation;
Growth Strategy;
Business Ethics;
Defense;
Procurement;
Sustainability;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Acquisition;
Ethics;
Private Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Growth Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Horizontal Integration;
Value Creation;
Competitive Advantage;
Monopoly;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?" Harvard Business School Case 720-422, April 2020. (Revised April 2023.)
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
expectations can be formed, which correspond to two different types of users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Standard-Essential Patents
- 30 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective
- January 11, 2024
- Article
Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case
By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu and Dionne Lomax
Regulators in the United States and Europe have been taking on Big Tech, challenging what they say are the companies’ anti-competitive and predatory strategies that harm consumers and third-party users of their platforms. This article examines the FTC’s case against...
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Keywords:
Monopoly;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Market Design;
Lawsuits and Litigation
Farronato, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu, and Dionne Lomax. "Understanding the Tradeoffs of the Amazon Antitrust Case." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 11, 2024).
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
for each firm in the duopoly medium to bundle more ads and earn greater total profits than the rival firm in the monopoly medium. Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors:Lisa D. Ordonez,...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
Google was a monopoly and if so, should it be regulated or broken up. His answer: ‘Our product is free to the consumer. We welcome any competitors.’” Questions were raised about how a platform-based...
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- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
regulation coordinated by the United Nations. This working paper provides a business history perspective on how the privatization of global environmental governance happened and shows how the system of private View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
management be trusted to self-regulate, or will regulators or other stakeholders need to play a more significant role to address a growing range of harms? Participants left with an understanding of how the business model creates...
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- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
of the same resource can increase a person’s power. Unions are one instance of this strategy; monopolies are another more extreme example—and can be problematic, the authors note. To weaken the power that others parties have on them,...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
actions. Some of the media (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) they employ, however, represent a threat of monopoly that should be addressed by the very governments that, ironically, could turn big data against us. So say...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
practice; a commitment to use specialized knowledge for the public good, and a renunciation of the goal of profit maximization, in return for professional autonomy and monopoly power; a code of ethics, with provisions for monitoring...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
asset that you can use to buy things, right now. It's the ultimate form of liquidity. But another thing that's important about money is that its supply is largely controlled by the government. Depending on which type of money supply you look at, the government has...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
technological and financial leader or teetering on collapse. How has the Chinese Communist Party managed rapid modernization while maintaining its monopoly on political power, and what does the country's domestic trajectory say about the...
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- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
pooling equilibria exist becomes smaller, and firms are more likely to anger consumers. Regulation can increase welfare, for example, through fines (even if there are no changes in prices). We illustrate these gains in a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy...
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- Web
Reshaping Competition - Course Catalog
views about monopoly that are enforced by antitrust and regulation and potential changes to enforcement over the next decade and beyond. Final Project Working alone or in pairs, students will write a short...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
communications industry has entailed the gradual removal of protected monopolies and rate-of-return regulation. Yet, at the same time, new government policies have been adopted to require open access and nondiscriminatory pricing in areas...
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