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2017
Working Paper

The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

By: Mike Horia Teodorescu

Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry

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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organization to utilize a Fellow's leadership and management skills. Fellows are chosen by the hiring organizations through a standard interview process. Organizations pay Fellows a $65,000 salary and HBS awards Fellows a one-year grant... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

west@studentclubs.hbs.edu Whisky, Bourbon & Spirits Society Co-Presidents Grant Hutchinson ghutchinson@mba2025.hbs.edu Sabastian Murrell smurrell@mba2025.hbs.edu Madison Gurley mgurley@mba2025.hbs.edu Club Email wbss@studentclubs.hbs.edu... View Details

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Fund There are two ways you can make a gift through your donor-advised fund: Support HBS now by recommending a grant to Harvard Business School (legal name: “President and Fellows of Harvard College”). Support HBS in the future by... View Details

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate levels of competition.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Chasing Stars

It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

November 20, 2018 Journal of the American College of Cardiology Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory By: Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia Abstract—Operational efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

Minutes, April 16, 2023. Bailey Schulz, “Schumer proposes plan to address AI’s potential risks,” USA Today, April 18, 2023. Nico Grant and Karen Weise, “A.I. Frenzy Leads Tech Giants to Take Risks in Ethics Rules,” The New York Times,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19

By: Mark Egan, C. Fritz Foley, Esel Cekin and Emilie Billaud

In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a workforce of 160,000 in 2020, AB InBev... View Details

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08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510063-PDF-ENG Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-098 Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Yanbo Wang, Boston University

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U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

national economic development initiative led by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter through the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, with support from partners around the country and a federal grant from the U.S.... View Details

06 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

others. This distinction creates a false dichotomy because low self-monitoring is the opposite of being authentic, and is a sign of immaturity and insensitivity to the feelings of others. Leaders who do this, such as telling a colleague, “I’d like to go to bed with... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Fellowships - Business History

Copenhagen Business School, 2005 Chandler International Visiting Scholar The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowships The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Individual View Details

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

an education even harder for people in prison, stipulating that the incarcerated would no longer be eligible for Pell Grants to help pay for their education. Many states followed suit with their own cuts to education support for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

lawsuits alleging that the company had damaged creditors in their quest to preserve equity value. Of particular focus were a series of transactions that took place during 2013 and 2014 to sell assets from one subsidiary to another and to eliminate a valuable parent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

selling cast-off merchandise, some companies even design specific product lines for sale there. So what's going on? “We take for granted that outlet stores exist, but if you think about it, it's a little weird” "We take for View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail

01 Dec 2023
News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

percent of the more than $100 million fund disbursed over the last 30 years had been granted to high-profile politicians, their families, and those with close access to information. The payback ratio for the fund was less than 1 percent.... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Research - Global

Ownership By: Ethan Rouen and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago Set in 2024, this case examines how Ingersoll Rand— a global leader in air, liquid, and gas handling technologies—approached broadening employee ownership. The company granted... View Details

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