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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
fuel its own business. P&G has set a stretch goal of having 50 percent of its new project portfolio come from outside its own four walls. And IBM and P&G also allow others to license their ideas for their own business. IBM... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly, medical institutions outsource... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
Licensing System, since loan officers must be either federally registered or state licensed through the system; mortgage applications via confidential data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act maintained by... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find that post-AIPA U.S. patent applications are significantly more likely to be licensed before patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s, however, Rambus engaged in an... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Willy ShihHarvard Business School Case 610-085 Tessera Technologies has been very successful developing technologies for the semiconductor and mobile device industry, and then licensing them broadly to manufacturers. In addition to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
product and/or the by-product. The firm creates value through this process innovation and can capture this value by capturing newly created market opportunities, taking market share from competitors, or licensing the innovation to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
University of Utah not given Myriad an exclusive license to a discovery the university made in its own labs, there may have been no need for a conflict whatsoever. But among other things, the dispute resonates deeply with a call to action... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
rather than a vertical, turnkey hardware integrated software provider. It's a fundamental change in strategy, if they were to pursue it aggressively. On the other hand, if they pursue their iPod licensing strategy like they pursued their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
(GMCR) senior executives in a negotiation to license technology from Keurig, a startup that has developed an innovative "portion pack" coffee brewing solution. The negotiation will determine the royalty to be paid to Keurig by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the science, who the competition is, if it should be View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required U.S. patent applications to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
exploiting indigenous communities for the benefit of their new employers in the West? And a more hopeful question: Were there cases in which Western firms and rural Indian societies shared the licensing fees from herbal patents? "We... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed sources of revenue, relax government... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
tech enterprise applications. Randi Altschul, a prolific inventor and the founder of Dieceland Technologies Corporation, which licenses and develops her inventions, said she got the idea for a disposable cell phone while driving her car.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807106 Note on Biotech Business Development Harvard Business School Note 807-032 Describes the business development process in biotechnology companies. Topics covered include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
licenses properties from blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. “It's really easy for them to be nimble and meet demand” LEGO's ambition has at times exceeded its reach. By 2004, the company's overdiversification into theme... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
that are feeling threatened have learned how to bully younger upstarts by wielding licenses and patent law like a weapon. It certainly doesn't encourage the spirit of innovation, does it? However, it isn't just the inventors and fledgling... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen