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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
rents from firms producing and commercializing products. In this Industry Note, we describe the origin, evolution, costs, benefits, and future outlook for Patent Trolling in the United States. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
borrowers and lenders is feasible, the incentive effect of credit reporting is negligible, as bilateral banking relationships discipline borrowers. Information sharing nevertheless affects market outcome by weakening lenders' ability to extract View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Gates, and Paul Allen, and some of the guys that ended up founding Sun Microsystems and Seagate-- they would rent a room at the Stanford Linear Accelerator to share projects and ideas they were working on. And out of that set of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
buy a Michelin map, get a ticket, rent a bike, and then spontaneously ride off into these remote parts of the world. I'm thoroughly convinced, that the only manner in which we as individuals can realize personal growth is through getting... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
and enjoying it on your own." So he decided to rent out some of the cottages. The first guests ate at a common table, as they do today. "You make a social investment here. People who get no return on a social investment probably shouldn't... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-126 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
or the Eiffel Tower instead of a picture of you. But if you have a photo of a dog where your face should be, it might deter people from renting your property." The researchers' data set consisted of all Airbnb New York rentals available... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
predictors of success in securing loans than is gender.14 The personal financial resources that entrepreneurs invest really "stake" the business. They not only provide the funds to rent space, get a computer and software, file a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
there was empty land for 25 years. We rented the land and created a temporary arena and a coffee shop, a studio, and a car park. It was like a complex. And that changed the people’s mindset in Mito, because that empty land right in the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
Kraft's offer, as the Foxboro stadium was poorly designed and in terrible condition, and depended on the Patriots for most of its income. Kraft and his partner were astute enough, however, to spot obscure provisions in the lease that not only stipulated that the team... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
managerial autonomy. Stronger competition also leads to less discretion in markets in which the possibilities for product differentiation are important. For a given number of firms, an increase in market size increases centralization, as the owner of the firm finds it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market cap of $8 billion. "REITs at the time were paying dividends in the high single digits, so money started flowing in." (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
but can't afford the hefty prices for designer originals? Rent the Runway allows fashionistas to use those dresses and accessories at affordable rates. The company has decoupled the value part of the process—experiencing haute... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 319-013 Jackie Taylor: The Black Ensemble Theater Jackie Taylor, an African American social entrepreneur, founded the Black Ensemble Theater in 1976. Since the ensemble’s inception, she has rented spaces where... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
building in the National Capital Region. Does this matter? Can the developer realize higher rents because of this? The developer performs a detailed cost-benefit analysis of energy-saving measures that overlap and reduce their cumulative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman