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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
society as a whole. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118646983.html April 2015 Management Science Private Equity and Industry Performance By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
When information is digitized, it can be aggregated and shared nearly instantly. I am interested in how this acceleration in the aggregation and availability of information, via digitization, affects firms and firm strategy.
Platforms have emerged as marketplaces for...
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Market Platforms;
Social Media;
Information Disclosure;
Platform Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Information;
Technology Platform;
Information Industry;
Information Industry;
Information Industry;
Information Industry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- January 1996
- Case
Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent
By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
CompuServe, an online services vendor, informs its software developers that they must enter into a licensing agreement to use the popular GIF compression. CompuServe claims that it is forced to do so because Unisys is enforcing its patent rights in this area. Others...
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Patents;
Technological Innovation;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Competitive Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Web Services Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Benjamin Conway. "Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent." Harvard Business School Case 296-057, January 1996.
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Gurun, and Scott Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE...
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Carmen Nobel
- January 2010 (Revised November 2012)
- Teaching Note
Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND (TN)
Teaching Note for [910407].
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- November 2010 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer?
By: Ray Goldberg, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero and Andrew Terris
Alejandro Elsztain, CEO of Cresud S.A., is faced with the difficult choice of whether to sell, develop, or continue to hold the 151,000 hectares of remaining undeveloped farmland at the company's Los Pozos farm in Argentina. Developing the land will further expose...
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Agribusiness;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Risk Management;
Ownership Stake;
Property;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Argentina
Goldberg, Ray, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero, and Andrew Terris. "Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer?" Harvard Business School Case 211-011, November 2010. (Revised February 2013.)
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
role in that process. “The way entrepreneurs create jobs is not by staying small forever and creating a gazillion firms,” says Kerr. “It’s a small firm that grows to a Facebook or a chemical plant with 800 employees.” Part of the reason why immigrant firms display...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local industries that depend on their talents. (For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey...
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Garry Emmons
- June 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All (Abridged)
By: Youngme E. Moon
Pokemon, the colloquial name given to a collection of 150 fantastic, animal-inspired creatures with organic powers and the capacity to evolve, are the stars of video games, trading card games, and TV cartoons. Conceived in Japan in 1996, Pokemon quickly became that...
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Brands and Branding;
Age;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Copyright;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Japan;
Asia;
United States
Moon, Youngme E. "Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 502-092, June 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- August 1989 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Prospect Hill
By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
Bill Hassett, a partner in the Nelson Companies, has to make some important decisions regarding the expansion of Prospect Hill Executive Office Park in Waltham, Massachusetts. The pre-development issues concerning him about the Hillside Building include how to position...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Property;
Decisions;
Interest Rates;
Urban Development;
Organizational Structure;
Real Estate Industry;
Massachusetts
Poorvu, William J., and Katherine Sweetman. "Prospect Hill." Harvard Business School Case 390-011, August 1989. (Revised January 1992.)
- November 2009 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund
By: Arthur I Segel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
The Jonathan Rose Companies must decide how to design and launch an innovative new real estate fund focused on green and transit oriented properties. JRC seeks to show through the fund that smart growth and green buildings provide superior economic returns to sprawl...
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Property;
Buildings and Facilities;
Transition;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment;
Marketing;
Energy Conservation;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Environmental Sustainability;
Finance;
Real Estate Industry
Segel, Arthur I., and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund." Harvard Business School Case 210-033, November 2009. (Revised April 2010.)
- August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Steel Street
By: Arthur I Segel, William J. Poorvu, Ben Creo and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
The case involves repositioning an old 6-story warehouse in Pittsburgh and many of the issues of rehabilitation and selecting and managing the development team especially in a world of capital market uncertainty. The case also demonstrates the alignment of interests of...
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Construction;
Capital Markets;
Financial Management;
Investment;
Property;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
Pittsburgh
Segel, Arthur I., William J. Poorvu, Ben Creo, and Justin Seth Ginsburgh. "Steel Street." Harvard Business School Case 210-010, August 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- 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.
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow. We characterize certain general View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
today’s China,” Huang observes. That attitude must give way to “an ideological commitment to private property rights” and to the institutional reforms that would necessarily follow. That development seems more likely, he believes, after...
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