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• Case | HBS Case Collection | May 2018 (Revised September 2018)

  BuzzFeed - What Future for Native Advertising and Branded Content?

  Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  Jonah Peretti, CEO of digital publishing company BuzzFeed, needs to decide how to respond to Facebook’s announcement that it would prioritize posts from friends over content from publishers.

  Keywords: Information Publishing; Online Technology; Online Advertising; Problems and Challenges; Business Model; Strategy; Publishing Industry; Technology Industry; United States;

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  Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "BuzzFeed - What Future for Native Advertising and Branded Content?" Harvard Business School Case 718-511, May 2018. (Revised September 2018.)  View Details

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• Article | Strategy Science

  Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

  Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao

  Market imperfections are central to understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining imperfections can become a primary impetus for government intervention. Hence, an understanding of residual market imperfections—those imperfections that persist after market competition and regulation are accounted for—must inform any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm strategies. Our framework provides an integrated view of competition and government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability.

  Keywords: integrated strategy; competitive advantage; nonmarket strategy; Market imperfections; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;

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  Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Special Issue on Strategy and the Institutional Environment edited by Ahuja, Capron, Lenox, Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): 463–480.  View Details

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• Other Unpublished Work | 2017

  Better, Simpler Strategy

  Frances X. Frei and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  Strategy, at its core, describes how a company attains superior performance. In industry after industry, there is a wide range in company performance resulting from the various strategies adopted by individual firms. Underneath all of this variation, however, are principles that are straightforward and consistent across industries. This pamphlet outlines these principles to help you set and evolve your company’s strategy. Here we offer a simple and succinct way to think about the sources of competitive advantage. We hope that our way of thinking about why some companies do far better than others is both illuminating and inspiring.

  Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage;

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  Frei, Frances X., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Better, Simpler Strategy." Baker Library, Boston, September 2017.  View Details

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