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- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
inventors of the iPhone. The Power of Presence at the Podium Amy Cuddy Running for office requires a lot of public speaking. But often, it’s what candidates aren’t saying that can make or break their campaigns. Take the case of Dan... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 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 superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
place for original work.) If it weren't for NPEs, the argument goes, resource-rich companies would be free to steal ideas of small inventors without fearing retaliatory lawsuits—and this would poison the business environment. But critics... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner Prizes are increasingly dangled in front of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-006 Public Entrepreneurship This course is rooted in the belief that there is a large opportunity for creating value and solving large public problems if there are more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Khurana spent The inventor of a patented research method that analyzes consumers’ subconscious thoughts and feelings, HBS professor Gerald Zaltman believes that 95 percent of consumers’ thinking occurs in their unconscious minds.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
JP(D) and foreign inventors JP(F) patenting in Japan. Source: Tom Nicholas, "The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization", Explorations in Economic History (2011, forthcoming). http://people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Jmod.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine whether prizes encourage innovation and, if so, how. We compare changes in U.S. patents per year for technology areas where U.S. inventors won prizes for exceptional innovations at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants and their direct reports facilitate knowledge production and transfer across borders for multinationals. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 inventors at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
although patenting in neural networks saw a strong burst of activity in the 1990s that has only recently been surpassed. In all technological fields, the number of patents per inventor has declined near-monotonically, except for large... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative links... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in their native countries. Ethnic innovators also appear to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Patent Secrecy Program in World War II By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract— This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which approximately 11,200 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Vectograph. A professor of art at Smith College who earned his doctorate at Harvard and became an early consultant to Polaroid, Clarence Kennedy had investigated the use of 3-D photography for projecting photographs of works of art, particularly sculpture. Joseph... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
recognized." 33 A dreamer and inventor himself, Land realized researchers needed time to solve problems in an environment without distractions: "I think the important and nearly impossible projects such as we set for our goal require... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in its native... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Life after Clocky Elie Ofek and Jill AveryHarvard Business School Case 511-134 Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
with one another to innovate? To answer this question, the authors compiled a dataset identifying all coauthorship relationships of U.S. patent inventors from 1975 through 1999. That dataset revealed that the social network of innovators... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
In a well-marked line from the movie The Social Network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns to the Winklevoss twins, who are suing him for stealing their invention, and says: "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd... View Details