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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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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

Retail pricing evolves into what Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has termed a " confusopoly :" rather than compete on price, outlets start to engage in strategies to make price comparisons more difficult. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

Nalebuff have written in their book Co-Opetition , businesses that form co-opetitions become more competitive by cooperating. In another example, Peugeot Citroen will supply Toyota Motors light-weight trucks to sell under the Toyota brand in the European market. Collaboration Strategy' As management professors Adam M.