Property Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

head to this day,” he says. “As an entrepreneur, leadership is the most important quality to have—you need it to attract the right people and get the optimum performance beyond any employee numbers or resources you control. And the case... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

questions, questions that students assume primary responsibility for discussing. There is no assumption that there is always a right answer. Rather the emphasis is on the quality of analyses and thought processes employed in coming up... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

of Nations, is that free markets require certain conditions in order to function—among them, well-defined property rights, enforceable contracts, non-collusion between parties, and complete knowledge that puts everyone on a level playing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be selective in deals;... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

3.0 Private Equity Finance Ted Berk Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Real Estate Investing Dwight Angelini W. Matt Kelly Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Real Estate Private Equity (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Real View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

used by consumers and small businesses to discharge debts; Chapter 11, used for reorganization generally by larger corporations to pay creditors over time; and Chapter 13, which allows the filer to keep property and repay debts over three... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Boston Magazine ’s “The 100 Most Influential People in Boston Right Now” in 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments at the Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association with Huaizhi... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

the Internet, can go through an iterative process much more quickly and cheaply than was true in the past. So, how do you encourage customer-driven innovation and capture some of that value? First, consider the question of intellectual View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

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Harvard Business School

on Brittain in 2011. Charles Bush MBA 1972 Charles Bush was an American civil rights activist, senior corporate executive, and United States Air Force officer. Bush was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the United States... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

28, 2024 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well Professor Amy Edmondson (PHDOB 1996) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording As the push to innovate intensifies in many industries, the... View Details

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

protect their intellectual property rights—one of the most important growth drivers in the US economy—in developing markets. The case is one of a series Iyer is developing that are linked to property View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

24 Apr 2014
News

Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)

Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento

We present a dynamic model where the accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; Rights; Mathematical Methods

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24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

of intellectual property theft by foreign competitors grows and secrecy becomes a more attractive strategy for firms to protect and capitalize on their innovations, this question is becoming increasingly important to policymakers and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2005
News

A Primer on Patents

product and so-called paper competitors who have intellectual property rights but aren’t involved in the industry in any real sense. This abuse of the system certainly wasn’t what the Founding Fathers had in... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

independently; and you have to have well defined intellectual property rights. It is hard to sell stuff where the rights are not well defined. There are all sorts of hazards. These conditions are pretty well... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

01 Mar 2006
News

Faculty Research Online

property rights (IPR) to entice international corporate investment. But who really benefits from IPR? Should multinationals feel secure that their secrets will be protected? A Q&A with Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services