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      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Leadership and the Value of Persistence

      By: James J. Anton, Alan Jaske and Dennis Yao
      Consider a leader’s decision whether to persist with an unsuccessful R&D project or to terminate the project in favor of a new project with an uncertain value. How does that decision affect the effort exerted by the manager assigned to the project? To study this...  View Details
      Keywords: Persistence; Project Evaluation; R&D Project Management; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership
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      Anton, James J., Alan Jaske, and Dennis Yao. "Leadership and the Value of Persistence." Working Paper, January 2023.
      • January 2022
      • Case

      Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen

      By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar
      In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and...  View Details
      Keywords: Green Hydrogen; Energy; Climate Change; Supply Chain; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology; Projects; Alliances; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East; North Africa
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      Yao, Dennis, and Alpana Thapar. "Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen." Harvard Business School Case 722-381, January 2022.
      • January 2022
      • Course Overview Note

      Beyond Strategic Intuition: Course Introduction

      By: Dennis Yao
      Keywords: Strategic Interaction; Strategy
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      Yao, Dennis. "Beyond Strategic Intuition: Course Introduction." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 722-410, January 2022.
      • January 2022
      • Article

      Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry

      By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
      This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate the performance impact of product repositioning. It then examines how a product's brand equity value declines with repositioning distance...  View Details
      Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Brand Equity; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Regulation; Repositioning; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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      Hou, Young, and Dennis Yao. "Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry." Strategic Management Journal 43, no. 1 (January 2022): 3–29.
      • June 2020
      • Article

      Informing Dissent

      By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
      The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention should focus on government restrictions on access to official information. At no time is this more important than when...  View Details
      Keywords: Dissent; Information Monopoly; Economics Of Speech; Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA); Self-censorship; Social Pressure; Information; Government and Politics; Spoken Communication; Society
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      Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Informing Dissent." Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 2 (June 2020): 200–212.
      • March 2020 (Revised May 2022)
      • Case

      The Art of the Merger: The Museum of Modern Art and PS1

      By: Dennis Yao and Hillary Greene
      This case examines the organizational relationship between the Museum of Modern Art and its affiliate MoMA PS1. The relationship raises a number of business and corporate strategy questions regarding the evolution of organizational relationships and their management....  View Details
      Keywords: Arts; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Disruption; Decision Making; Fine Arts Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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      Yao, Dennis, and Hillary Greene. "The Art of the Merger: The Museum of Modern Art and PS1." Harvard Business School Case 720-412, March 2020. (Revised May 2022.)
      • June 21, 2019
      • Article

      Government-Funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation

      By: Lee Fleming, Hillary Greene, Guan-Cheng Li, Matt Marx and Dennis Yao
      Keywords: Innovation; R&D; Patents
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      Fleming, Lee, Hillary Greene, Guan-Cheng Li, Matt Marx, and Dennis Yao. "Government-Funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation." Science 364, no. 6646 (June 21, 2019): 1139–1141.
      • March 2019
      • Article

      Antitrust as Speech Control

      By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
      Antitrust law, at times, dictates who, when, and about what people can and cannot speak. It would seem then that the First Amendment might have something to say about those constraints. And it does, though perhaps less directly and to a lesser degree than one might...  View Details
      Keywords: Antitrust Law; First Amendment; Spoken Communication; Laws and Statutes
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      Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Antitrust as Speech Control." William & Mary Law Review 60, no. 4 (March 2019): 1215–1267.
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      Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

      By: 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Strategy; 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 Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis A. Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): 463–480.
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      Strategy and the Institutional Envelope

      By: Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox and Dennis Yao
      Keywords: Institutions; Strategy
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      Ahuja, Gautam, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis Yao. "Strategy and the Institutional Envelope." Special Issue on Strategy and the Institutional Environment edited by Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis A. Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): ii–x.
      • March 2018 (Revised September 2020)
      • Background Note

      Short Note on Game Theory

      By: Eric Van den Steen and Dennis Yao
      This note provides a very concise (2 page) introduction to game theory.  View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Interaction; Commitment; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy
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      Van den Steen, Eric, and Dennis Yao. "Short Note on Game Theory." Harvard Business School Background Note 718-509, March 2018. (Revised September 2020.)
      • January 2018 (Revised July 2020)
      • Technical Note

      Short Note on Relative Cost Analysis

      By: Eric Van den Steen and Dennis Yao
      This note provides a very concise (2 page) introduction to relative cost analysis, with a simple example.  View Details
      Keywords: Relative Cost Analysis; Cost; Analysis
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      Van den Steen, Eric, and Dennis Yao. "Short Note on Relative Cost Analysis." Harvard Business School Technical Note 718-485, January 2018. (Revised July 2020.)
      • October 2017
      • Article

      Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions

      By: Anoop R. Menon and Dennis Yao
      This paper proposes an approach for modeling competitive interactions that incorporates the costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions...  View Details
      Keywords: "Repositioning Costs; Strategy Dynamics; Strategic Interaction; Capabilities; Cost; Strategy; Change; Game Theory; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao. "Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 10 (October 2017): 1953–1963.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Product Market Strategy

      By: Anoop Menon and Dennis Yao
      Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions and activities of a firm that determines how it positions itself in its product markets, and allows it to achieve and maintain a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. This article examines product market strategy from the...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Advantage
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      Menon, Anoop, and Dennis Yao. "Product Market Strategy." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, October 2013.)
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Rationalizing Outcomes: Mental-Model-Guided Learning in Competitive Markets

      By: Anoop R. Menon and Dennis Yao
      This paper explores how mental models affect the analysis of dynamic strategic interactions. We develop an explanation-based view of mental models founded on a regression analogy and implement this view in simulations involving market competition between two firms with...  View Details
      Keywords: Mental Models; Strategic Interactions; Rationalization; Explanation-based View; Learning; Competition; Performance; Analysis
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      Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao. "Rationalizing Outcomes: Mental-Model-Guided Learning in Competitive Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-095, May 2017.
      • 2016
      • Chapter

      Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets

      By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
      This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely...  View Details
      Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Television Entertainment; Public Opinion; Geographic Scope; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets." In Strategy Beyond Markets. Vol. 34, edited by John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, 367–411. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
      • March 2016 (Revised May 2020)
      • Technical Note

      A Brief Note on Global Antitrust

      By: Dennis Yao, David Yoffie, Eric Baldwin, Daniel Fisher and Rachel Salisbury
      This brief note explores the critical antitrust legal and policy issues facing managers, especially in the world of technology.  View Details
      Keywords: Anti-trust; Monopoly; Policy; Law; Global Range; Technology
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      Yao, Dennis, David Yoffie, Eric Baldwin, Daniel Fisher, and Rachel Salisbury. "A Brief Note on Global Antitrust." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-432, March 2016. (Revised May 2020.)
      • Winter 2014
      • Article

      The Influences of Strategic Management on Antitrust Discourse

      By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
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      Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "The Influences of Strategic Management on Antitrust Discourse." Special Issue on Antitrust as a Multidisciplinary Field edited by Gregory T. Gundlach. Antitrust Bulletin 59, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 789–826.
      • March 2014
      • Teaching Note

      Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children

      By: Dennis Yao
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      Yao, Dennis. "Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 714-501, March 2014.
      • 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Management; Market Imperfections; Five Forces Framework; Competitive Advantage; Profit
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      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.
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