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    Business StrategyRemove Business Strategy →

    New research on business strategy from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including maximizing competitive advantage, strategy for digital businesses, and building resilient businesses in turbulent times.
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    • 29 Mar 2022
    • Book

    5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

    by Sean Silverthorne

    What makes a business resilient, agile, and enduring? Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna analyze some of India's most successful companies and offer lessons for leaders everywhere in their book Leadership to Last. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 28 Jan 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure

    by Doug J. Chung, Kyoungwon Seo, and Reo Song

    Anchor stores are the key tenants in a mall, occupying most of the gross leasable area and generating much of the foot traffic. This research provides a framework to understand why new and traditional anchor stores join a shopping mall and how their decisions affect mall configuration.

    • 28 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

    by Jen McFarland Flint

    Left for dead alongside the retail highway, physical stores are suddenly finding new ways to compete, say Jill Avery and Antonio Moreno. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 27 Jul 2019
    • Op-Ed

    Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

    by George Riedel

    America's 2016 presidential election was the target of voter manipulation via social media, particularly on Facebook. George Riedel thinks history is about to repeat itself. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 22 Jul 2019
    • Book

    How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

    by Martha Lagace

    The most valuable companies in the world have one thing in common: all are leaders in the platform economy. In a new book, David Yoffie and colleagues identify key strategies and tactics for success on digital platforms. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 08 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

    by Kristen Senz

    Newspapers with reputable brands and unique content are finding success behind paywalls. For most papers, however, the future is not so clear, says Doug J. Chung. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 18 Jun 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere?

    Khan Academy is an online global education nonprofit launched by Sal Khan with the audacious mission to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Professor Bill Sahlman discusses his case study of the company. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 01 May 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

    by James Heskett

    SUMMING UP Readers comment on how YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki should solve its “sustainability” versus "respectability" problem. What should YouTube do? asks James Heskett. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 19 Nov 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

    by Sean Silverthorne

    The retail industry is in such a spin over multichannel strategy, mall closings, and big brand shutterings, to name a few pressures, that even Santa can't keep track of it all. Here is recent Harvard Business School research on digital trends shaping how we shop and sell. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 23 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

    by Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe, and Zhiji Xu

    Dynamic pricing is widely applied in industries like airline ticketing, ride-sharing, and online retailing. This paper identifies two downsides of dynamic pricing: opportunistic returns and strategic choice of payment method. The impact can be significant and has implications for managers and researchers.

    • 31 May 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

    by James Heskett

    SUMMING UP Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? James Heskett's readers weigh in. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 17 May 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

    by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen

    What makes some firms more resilient than others to large negative macro shocks? This paper finds that the internal organization of firms—specifically, the extent to which decision-making is decentralized from headquarters to plant managers—is an important mediating factor through which macroeconomic shocks affect firm performance and, ultimately, growth.

    • 15 Nov 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

    by Mihnea Moldoveanu

    This paper uses tools and models from computational complexity theory and the algorithmics of hard problems that are new to the strategy field in order to address how strategic process and structure adapt to the complex strategic scenarios and predicaments. The paper’s model of strategic problem-solving allows researchers and strategists to distinguish between different levels and kinds of adaptations to complexity of the problem solving scenario. It also allows them to explore and optimize the fit between the canonical strategy problems a firm faces, its stock of problem solving procedures, and its architectural and procedural adaptations to complexity.

    • 19 Oct 2016
    • Book

    Three Critical Mistakes Digital Businesses Make With Content

    by Michael Blanding

    Do companies really understand the nature of today's digital transformation? Bharat Anand's book The Content Trap offers a new view of digital strategy that shifts the focus from "produce the best content" to "create the best connections." Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 29 Feb 2016
    • HBS Case

    Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

    by Michael Blanding

    Bigbelly wants to transform its solar-powered trash cans into digital hubs offering Wi-Fi access, advertising, and data-collecting sensors. (Oh, and garbage receptacles, too.) A new case study by Mitchell Weiss explores the challenges of a bold strategy pivot. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

    by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg

    In the new case study “Honeywell and the Great Recession,” Sandra Sucher and Susan Winterberg explore employer tradeoffs when a downturn hits: conducting layoffs vs. orchestrating furloughs. Plus: Video interviews with Honeywell CEO Dave Cote. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 02 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

    by Michael Blanding

    By "decoupling" activities that consumers value from the ones they don't, enterprising digital startups are wreaking havoc on established firms. Thales Teixeira discusses his research on the second wave of Internet disruption. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 10 Nov 2014
    • HBS Case

    How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

    by Michael Blanding

    Harvard Business School professors Anat Keinan, Mukti Khaire, and Michael I. Norton deconstruct ground grasshoppers, upscale Peruvian cuisine, and other surprising elements that create the perfect culinary experience. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    World-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen explores the personal benefits of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but in life. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 21 Dec 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

    by Joan Magretta

    In the book, Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy, Joan Magretta distills Porter's core concepts and frameworks into a concise guide for business practitioners. In this excerpt, Porter discusses common strategy mistakes. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.

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