Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Darrell K. Rigby, Vijay Govindarajan

Overview

How to compete in a world dominated by tech giants.

A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech mega-firms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent--and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges?

Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking on corporate inequality and the future of antitrust, help you understand what these threats mean for your organization, and give your company the tools to succeed in the winner-take-all economy.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633699021
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	04/21/2020
Series:	HBR Insights Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	5 MB

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Table of Contents

Introduction

How Can You Compete Against World-Dominating Giants? xi

Start creating the future version of your company today.

Section 1 The Dominance of Mega-firms

1 Managing Our Hub Economy 3

Strategy, ethics, and network competition in the age of digital superpowers. Marco Iansiti Karim R. Lakhani

2 Is Lack of Competition Strangling the U.S. Economy? 29

What industry concentration means for businesses and consumers. David Wessel

Section 2 The Future of Antitrust and Regulation

3 Why It's a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data 53

Updating the definition of monopoly for our digital age. Maurice E. Stucke

4 What the Future of U.S. Antitrust Should Look Like 71

It doesn't need to be a partisan issue. William A. Galston Clara Hendrickson

5 Don't Break Up Facebook-Treat It Like a Utility 81

Facebook is a natural monopoly, so regulate it accordingly. Dipayan Ghosh

6 How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire 91

Today's rules haven't caught up to innovation. Larry Downes

Section 3 Competing Against Giants

7 The Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Made Every Other Retailer's Plan Obsolete 103

Retailers must learn to compete on agile innovation and expense management. Darrell K. Rigby

8 What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy 113

Lessons from Xiaomi. Howard Yu

9 Crafting a Strategy in the Age of Giants 123

Four approaches when "build a moat" no longer applies. Julian Birkinshaw Walter Frick Denise Lee Yohn Michael G. Jacobides

10 Who Will Win the Industrial Internet? 135

Industrial incumbents and digital natives both have a chance. Vijay Govindarajan

11 What to Learn from the Grocery Stores Holding Their Own Against Amazon 145

They know how to build customer loyalty. Amit Sharma

About the Contributors 155

Index 159