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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

That strategy could be especially effective if the company priced access at the point just below the competitions' 'go/no-go' price for developing similar technology. This insight shaped and informed venerable brands' efforts to collectively develop new geographic markets while maintaining their competitive differences.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

A company sets up a joint venture with a partner that has complementary assets and capabilities, in order to limit up-front investments, speed up market entry, and reduce risk. The question is what investment strategy a given company should follow: don’t invest, invest alone, or coinvest? Benefits and risks of co-opetition.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Strategies for staying ahead. Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. But the tools we have to evaluate and reward managers point them away from the strategies that leverage information. Insight Center.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”.