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- 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
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
suggestions for accounting research opportunities in the sector. Improving Value with TDABC HEALTHCARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE (June 2014) Robert S. Kaplan The inventor of time-driven activity-based costing explains its... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
Prize, while not a traditional corporate brand, has a very high HQ. In their paper, Urde and Greyser explain the factors that make it so: History important to identity: The Nobel prizes are the legacy of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’04) (Crown Business) The authors talked with 21 extraordinary leaders — people like Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72) and Pete Peterson, founders of the Blackstone Group, HBS professor Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic, and inventor... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of success and times of crisis.... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increase in demand. Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality? Authors:Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming Publication:Management Science 56, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Are lone inventors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
them were not daredevils skilled in the art of invention, and that, conversely, inventors were struggling creative types with no money "trying desperately to become poor businessmen" in Doriot's witty description. ARD sought to... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 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
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device. Kamen's challenge was to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne