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- Mar 2012
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Does America Really Need Manufacturing?
exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D...
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Matthew Mahoney
failure and invite them along for endless adventures. The Dalai Lama's right of course. When we create, we grow. When we grow, we're happy. I want to take growing further, push it beyond me. Chances are I won't be the one who invents the...
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King C. Gillette
Gillette invented the safety razor, creating a new U.S. industry. In 1903, Gillette sold 51 of his razors and 168 blades. He increased these numbers dramatically so that by the end of the next year, he had sold 90,000 razors and 12.4...
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Personal Care & Home Products
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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
perspectives. Inventive angles, extreme close-ups, and manipulation of light and shadow could create a sense of movement, reveal new dimensions and textures, and transform the mundane and everyday into beautiful abstractions. Through...
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Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that...
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Healthcare
Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp took control of his father's small printing operation and transformed it into a publishing empire. He established the American Lithographic Company in 1895 where he invented a multicolor six cylinder press. He used this press to...
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Publishing & Print Media
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Kenneth R. Andrews Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Polaroid Instant Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
of your vehicle. And it could mean that you’re not going to make it to orbit. Those are mistakes that can be done with very strong engineers. On the people side: It’s easy for engineers to fall prey to the “not made here” syndrome or “not View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
many "divisional applications" derived from this original 1990 application, in which aspects of the original application were put forward as inventions in their own right. Over the course of the next decade, the PTO granted at...
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Patent search: The use of component in Espacenet and Patentscope databases
analysis and network analysis Description Targeted problem, prior art, inventive idea, and embodiments Obtaining technical disclosure, conducting a keyword search and/or text mining to determining semantic concepts and similarity...
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Kenneth R. Andrews Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Polaroid Instant Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German...
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French...
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Papers — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Camera Global Markets Dana Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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The art of thinking creatively
art collection, a practice that enhances the inventive corporate culture. “People are responsive to them,” Schwartz says. His effort at HBS is a collaborative one, and plays out in annual buying trips to purchase works with an art...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
Business School quite closely, and I’m struck by the things that we take for granted that were once considered great innovations. The case method, for example, wasn’t with us from the day Harvard Business School was founded. It took 20 years to View Details
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Early German Machinery - New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections
Letterbook Dillingham Collection Intellectual Capital Kenneth Andrews Papers Alfred Chandler Papers C. Roland Christensen Papers George Lombard Papers Invention & Innovation Early German Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate...
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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds.
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Jayon Wang
I might as well just get used to people laughing at my ideas. At age 5, I told my mother that driving a dump-truck was my dream job. I can still hear her sweet and loving laughter. In the 10th grade, that same ambitious boy tried to View Details