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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. Some examples include “Collective Impact” initiatives and industry cluster organizations such as the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. In the Minneapolis-St.