Strategy

- September 2022
- Case
Blue Steel Investments

By: Alexander J. MacKay
- September 2022
- Case
Blue Steel Investments

By: Alexander J. MacKay
- September 2022
- Case
Proactive for Her

By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey

Proactive for her began amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and menstrual health was considered taboo. From her research and experience, Jacob identified that it was difficult for women to find unbiased and empathetic medical professionals who respected patient autonomy. By May 2022, Proactive was a platform that provided one-on-one teleconsultations, support programs, and webinars to customized treatment. It had reached over 5,000 women and opened its first flagship clinic in Bengaluru. It raised $1.2 million in its seed round in October 2020 and $5.5 million in Series A in January 2022. Proactive experimented with new solutions and products, with patient centricity at its core but as it prepared for Series B, had to figure out what business model would allow it to build a sustainable and profitable business that addressed the core issues?
- September 2022
- Case
Proactive for Her

By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey

Proactive for her began amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and menstrual health was considered taboo. From her research and experience, Jacob...
- 2022
- Working Paper
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Raffaella Sadun, Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman and John Van Reenen

We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve problems that may arise in the course of course of an uncertain production process. To examine the evidence, we construct measures of vertical integration and delegation for thousands of firms in different countries and industries. In line with the model’s predictions, we find that input value and supplier uncertainty play a key role in shaping both integration and delegation choices.
- 2022
- Working Paper
Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Raffaella Sadun, Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman and John Van Reenen

We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve problems that may arise in the course of course of an uncertain production process....

About the Unit

The Strategy unit studies firms as competitors in an economic landscape. Key issues include: the development and effectiveness of firm strategy at both a business and corporate level; the analysis of the competitive environment; and the sustainability of strategy over time.

Our research, course development, and teaching draws on multiple disciplines, including economics, sociology, and political science, and focuses on both domestic and global competition. The objective of the work is to generate findings and develop concepts that will help managers improve their strategic decisions while advancing the state of knowledge in the academic study of strategy and related disciplines.

Recent Publications

Proactive For Her Supplement II

By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey

October 2022 |
Supplement |
Faculty Research

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Proactive for Her Supplement I

By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey

October 2022 |
Supplement |
Faculty Research

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Blue Steel Investments

By: Alexander J. MacKay

September 2022 |
Case |
Faculty Research

Citation

Educators

Proactive for Her

By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey

September 2022 |
Case |
Faculty Research

Proactive for her began amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and menstrual health was considered taboo. From her research and experience, Jacob identified that it was difficult for women to find unbiased and empathetic medical professionals who respected patient autonomy. By May 2022, Proactive was a platform that provided one-on-one teleconsultations, support programs, and webinars to customized treatment. It had reached over 5,000 women and opened its first flagship clinic in Bengaluru. It raised $1.2 million in its seed round in October 2020 and $5.5 million in Series A in January 2022. Proactive experimented with new solutions and products, with patient centricity at its core but as it prepared for Series B, had to figure out what business model would allow it to build a sustainable and profitable business that addressed the core issues?

Keywords: Women's Health; Healthcare; India; Start-up; Health Industry; Asia; South Asia

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Educators

EnergyNow: Powering a New Market

By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett

September 2022 |
Case |
Faculty Research

In August 2022, EnergyNow co-founder and CEO Stuart MacWilliam (MBA 2015) considers the company strategy for building solar panels to provide power in South Africa’s recently deregulated energy market.

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Educators

Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

2022 |
Report |
Faculty Research

The Competitiveness Roadmap for India lays out policy principles to guide India's efforts to move towards middle-income and beyond over the next 25 years. It covers a discussion of appropriate outcome ambitions, the underlying development approach, specific policy actions to pursue, and the implementation architecture to design and execute on policies over time. The Roadmap is based on an in-depth diagnostic of India's current competitiveness, including an assessment of the policy actions taken so far. The document has been developed upon a request of Prime Minister Modi and the Economic Advisory Council to the PM within Niti Aayog.

Keywords: Economic Growth; Strategy; Competition; Policy; Government Administration; India

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Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Raffaella Sadun, Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andy Newman and John Van Reenen

2022 |
Working Paper |
Faculty Research

We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve problems that may arise in the course of course of an uncertain production process. To examine the evidence, we construct measures of vertical integration and delegation for thousands of firms in different countries and industries. In line with the model’s predictions, we find that input value and supplier uncertainty play a key role in shaping both integration and delegation choices.

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Households And Firms; Firm Behavior; Microeconomics; Organizational Structure; Decision Making

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