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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
others, had sold Aldus, the inventor of desktop publishing. I was extremely impressed with the team and invited them on the spot to present at our next OVP partners meeting. I thought the presentation had gone well as they outlined how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
other urban centers. Then in 1888, Julian Sprague, a young inventor who had worked with Thomas Edison, convinced the West End Street Railway Company of Boston to equip its city with streetcars powered by electricity. Electric trolleys... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
more 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these developments, it is time to abandon the dated myths of heroic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
Second, the ambitions of American inventors and entrepreneurs demanded the broadest possible distribution. The Wal-Mart mission, for example, is to lower the cost of living for everyone everywhere. Third, American society was open to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially rested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
revenues to the content provider as a result of the incentive to reduce price competition at the platform level. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-009.pdf The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors Author:William R.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
Woodward Family Collection. back to text The name Meroë comes from an ancient city located on the Nile. Morse was a distant relative of Samuel Morse (1791–1872), the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code. Samuel Morse met Louis... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
until allowance, 18-month publication shortens the time to licensing. Overall, for inventors that choose to license, 18-month publication accelerates licensing by 8.5 months on average. We conclude that information disclosure through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details