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- 2020
- Working Paper
Tech Clusters
By: William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully...
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Clusters;
Agglomeration;
Innovation;
Industry Clusters;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Patents
Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Tech Clusters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-063, November 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention
By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr
U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial...
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Keywords:
Invention;
Innovation;
Artificial Intelligence;
Clusters;
Agglomeration;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Applications and Software;
Industry Clusters;
United States
Chattergoon, Brad, and William R. Kerr. "Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-027, October 2021. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29456, November 2021.)
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
product and so-called paper competitors who have intellectual property rights but aren’t involved in the industry in any real sense. This abuse of the system certainly wasn’t what the Founding Fathers had in...
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Larissa Bifano
Larissa Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts. She also leads the firm's team that...
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Legal
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
a growing portfolio of 19 properties across a fast-growing Indian market. “It’s a relentless, 365/24/7 kind of business,” says Paul, an enthusiastic art collector who also serves on a number of nonprofit and View Details
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Julia Hanna
- Fast Answer
Construction: environmental building, materials
How do I find an introduction to and market reports on environmental buildings and construction materials? These resources cover the topics of materials, technologies, and markets: BCC Research provides market overviews of the building View Details
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Insurance industry: companies and analysis
Health and Property - Casualty sectors. Click on the drop-down arrow for Industry Surveys under S&P Publication Search. Insurance Fact Book (print only): from the Insurance Information Institute is a...
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Larissa Bifano
Larissa S. Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts. She also leads the firm's team that...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the...
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- June 2016
- Case
The Redevelopment of Palazzo Tornabuoni (B)
By: Sid Yog, Arthur I Segel and Ricardo Andrade
On December 16, 2010, Byrne Murphy received a call from his Italian partner at Fingen Group. The recently renovated Palazzo Tornabuoni, an iconic 15th century palace in the heart of Florence, Italy, had been seized by the local police. While Murphy tries to understand...
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Keywords:
Palazzo Tornabuoni;
Private Residence Club;
Florence;
Italy;
Timeshare;
Fractional Ownership;
Property;
Real Estate Industry;
Italy;
Europe
Yog, Sid, Arthur I Segel, and Ricardo Andrade. "The Redevelopment of Palazzo Tornabuoni (B)." Harvard Business School Case 216-070, June 2016.
- January 2015
- Teaching Plan
Residencial Los Andes
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Lisa Strope
In 2011, Mauricio Levitin and Josef Preschel, Managing Directors of Peninsula Investments Group (Peninsula) are deciding whether or not to recapitalize an equity investment in Residencial Los Andes, a residential development project in Santiago, Chile, or exit and take...
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Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Lisa Strope. "Residencial Los Andes." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 215-056, January 2015.
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
illustrates how deep dives guide the formation of a set of new core activities in the variation-selection-retention process. No PDF is available at this time. PublicationsWhat Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration...
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Martha Lagace
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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources
LSEG Workspace
PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Moody’s Analytics CRE Search millions of real estate data points that cover every commercially zonedView Details
PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Moody’s Analytics CRE Search millions of real estate data points that cover every commercially zoned
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Bloomberg: real estate information
How do I get real estate information in Bloomberg? Type BI REAL and hit GO for the Bloomberg Intelligence Real Estate dashboard containing industry data and news for Europe and Asia-Pacific markets. Real Estate Indices In the BI Real...
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- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, to answer alumni questions about what this trend might portend. With property price slides precipitating previous financial crises in Japan and the United States, what...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, forcing a massive federal...
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- August 2015 (Revised January 2016)
- Teaching Note
To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home
By: Charles F. Wu and Daniel Woodbury
This is the teaching note to the case "To Buy or What to Buy: Your First Home."
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is...
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- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
example, while Korea has a great education system, its industry structure is still rather inefficient. The Asian financial crisis induced a healthy shakeout, and now private equity firms are very active there. The more challenging regions...
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