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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
granted a U.S. patent for a "flying-machine," which changed the industry irrevocably. While American manufacturers diverted resources from science and technology to patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
assigned his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme, a French company formed for the sole purpose of marketing the invention. In 1923, the company licensed to DuPont the exclusive rights to make and sell cellophane in the United States.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
widespread secrecy is understandably difficult, since by their very nature, secret inventions are hard to find. Recently, a researcher at Harvard Business School found a way to study this issue—by examining patent applications the US... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=405105 Cola View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the war ended, Phillips was well positioned to meet the pent-up needs of consumers. His counterpart, Clarence Saunders, who founded Piggly Wiggly, was a consummate Mold-Breaker. He fundamentally revolutionized grocery shopping by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Lemmens and Sunil Gupta provides a novel method for determining which customers to target in order to maximize the profit of a retention campaign. The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The Impact of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
put flesh on the bones of independence, the USA and USSR were eager to offer aid and advice to promote their own models. The PRC, suffering the consequences of a century-long tangle with imperialism and decades of war coupled with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
recovered in key areas of economic activity. Consider patents as a proxy for resources devoted to innovation. In 1923 and 1924, patents registered in Japan fell by around one-third compared to 1922, the year... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a strong boost to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
H. Duell, Commission of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 (early in Gordon’s “special century”). What I believe, based on personal homework, is limited to just a few things: (1) there is economic growth and then there is economic growth, (2)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne