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- January 2011
- Teaching Note
The Travails of Rubber: Goodyear or Badyear? (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 808118.
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- May 2002 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Marketing Antidepressants: Prozac and Paxil
By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman
Describes the marketing of Prozac and Paxil, two of the best-selling mental health drugs in history. Set in 2001, several months before the expiration of Prozac's patent, Eli Lilly (Prozac's manufacturer) and GlaxoSmithKline (Paxil's manufacturer) must decide how to...
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Patents;
Product Positioning;
Competition;
Ethics;
Value;
Health Care and Treatment;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Moon, Youngme E., and Kerry Herman. "Marketing Antidepressants: Prozac and Paxil." Harvard Business School Case 502-055, May 2002. (Revised October 2005.)
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
performance-survival, employment, and growth-and firm innovative performance-quantity, quality, and nature of patents and papers-by comparing funded and unfunded firms. To address endogeneity around selection bias, we use a qualitatively...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
sending countries. What are the inbound effects of high-skill immigration for the United States? Legal immigrants represent about 14 or 15 percent of the workforce, but our studies of patent data show that ethnic names [primarily Indian...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
counsel in guiding this then-young MBA student in both these directions—six entrepreneurial start-ups and then a seventh one that is green to boot! The seventh, GreenEarth Cleaning, owns 140 patents in 42 countries and after 12 years is...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
acquisition of Motorola by Google, the Microsoft-Nokia alliance, the rise of Samsung, and the extensive patent wars-each raised questions about how HTC could continue its upward trajectory. In a rapidly evolving and increasingly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 1999 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (G)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
Supplements the (A) case.
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Patents;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Behavior;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizations;
Acquisition;
Corporate Governance;
Service Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Katharina Pick. "Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (G)." Harvard Business School Case 400-012, July 1999. (Revised December 2005.)
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of...
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Susan Young
- 07 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering...
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by William R. Kerr
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
our sample period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via non-pecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transfor ation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual U.S. patent records to...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
fund the launch of nearly all start-ups. The founders' current income, cash reserves, credit card capacity, and "mortgagable" assets account for most of the early stage capital in the United States.2 Other forms of non-cash entrepreneurial investments include...
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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
three decades. The same has been true for the number of brain-related patents granted, which is a marker of commercialization potential.” But here’s the bad news, says Amadio: “There are still an estimated 2 billion people worldwide who...
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Robert S. Benchley
- July 1999
- Case
Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (E)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Patents;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Behavior;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Organizations;
Acquisition;
Corporate Governance;
Service Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Katharina Pick. "Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (E)." Harvard Business School Case 400-006, July 1999.
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
with manufacturers, although asking a manufacturer not to sign with Amazon, for example, might be a tough sell. In cases where the third parties develop products themselves, as is the case with many mobile apps, companies may be able to stave off platform competition...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710408-PDF-ENG C.K. Claridge, Inc James K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 910-045 Sued for patent infringement, chemical manufacturer C.K. Claridge (CKC) tries to design a settlement...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
to their cash reserves. Couple this with the fact that small businesses create approximately 60 percent of the net new jobs in our country, and file about 14 times more patents per employee than their larger counterparts, you have an even...
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by Karen Mills