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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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  • 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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  • January 2022
  • Course Overview Note

Beyond Strategic Intuition: Course Introduction
By: Dennis Yao
Keywords: Strategic Interaction; Strategy
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Article

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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  • Other Article

Strategy and the Institutional Envelope
By: Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox and Dennis Yao
Keywords: Institutions; Strategy
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Winter 2014
  • Article

The Influences of Strategic Management on Antitrust Discourse
By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
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  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children
By: Dennis Yao
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  • 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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