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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • Article

    Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select the Best Science Proposals?

    By: Danielle Li and Leila Agha
    This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Research; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; United States
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      Tsedal Neeley

      Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Chair of the Christensen Center for Teaching... View Details

      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Learning by Investing: Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital

      By: Josh Lerner, Jinlin Li and Tong Liu
      This paper studies how investing in venture capital (VC) affects the entrepreneurial outcomes of individual limited partners (LPs). Using comprehensive administrative data on entrepreneurial activities and VC fundraising and investments in China, we first document that... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; China
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      • December 2003
      • Case

      Sale of Hephaestus, Inc. to Vulcan Ventures, Inc.

      Henry Hephaestus founded Hephaestus, Inc. in 1895. Its first product was a tapered roller bearing for use with horse-drawn wagons and carriages. It reduced friction on the axle and reduced the force necessary to move a heavy load, thereby enabling one horse to do the... View Details
      Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry
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      • 08 Apr 2020
      • News

      How To Work From Home And Still Be Productive

      • July 2023 (Revised July 2024)
      • Case

      Miracle Therapeutics: Negotiating an IP License (A)

      By: Satish Tadikonda, Michael Singer, William Marks and Wendi Yajnik
      (General Experience Case) Beth Sharp and Jennifer Brilliant founded Miracle Therapeutics based on intellectual property developed by Brilliant and her post-doctoral student, John Supreme, in Brilliant’s lab at Elite University (EU). Miracle will have to obtain a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Negotiation Process
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      • 18 Mar 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: March 18

      innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Feb 2022
      • News

      Good Immigration

      • November 2012
      • Teaching Plan

      The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science (TP)

      By: Vicki L. Sato and Annelena Lobb
      The Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was a unique operation. Its head, Robert Langer, had always focused on selecting ideas to research that would have the greatest positive impact for humanity, and he encouraged an unusual... View Details
      Keywords: Computers; Industry Evolution; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Capital; R＆D; Technology Transfer; Patents; Research and Development; Massachusetts
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      • 30 Sep 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
      • May 2021
      • Article

      Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

      By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
      We study the impact of consumers’ risk perception on firm innovation. Our analysis exploits a major surge in the perceived risk of radiation diagnostic devices following extensive media coverage of a set of over-radiation accidents involving CT scanners in late 2009.... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Perception; Innovation; Medical Devices; Liability Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Technological Innovation
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      • March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
      • Case

      Signalling Costs

      NutraSweet's worldwide patent-protected monopoly on aspartame, the low-calorie high-intensity sweetener, ended with the 1987 entry of the Holland Sweetener Co. (HSC) into the European market. Following the arrival of a challenger, NutraSweet acted to reduce sharply the... View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Competition; Price; Market Entry and Exit; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe
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      • March 2023
      • Article

      Attracting the Sharks: Corporate Innovation and Securities Class Action Lawsuits

      By: Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt
      This paper provides novel evidence suggesting that securities class action lawsuits, a central pillar of the U.S. litigation and corporate governance system, can constitute an obstacle to valuable corporate innovation. We first establish that valuable innovation output... View Details
      Keywords: Class-action Litigation; Turnover; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Risk and Uncertainty
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      • 07 Aug 2015
      • News

      SoulCycle: You Say ‘Cult.’ I Say ‘Loyal Customer Base.’

      • 01 Nov 2019
      • News

      The Particular Creativity of Dense Urban Neighborhoods

      • February 2011 (Revised August 2011)
      • Case

      Brazil: Leading the BRICs?

      By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Aldo Musacchio
      Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, had announced plans to sustain GDP growth above 5% annually and continue the country's leadership role among emerging economies. Between 2003 and 2010, Brazil benefited from strong economic growth and stable policies under the... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Intellectual Property; Infrastructure; Economic Growth; Trade; International Relations; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Strategy; Brazil; Russia; India; China; United States
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      • August 2018
      • Article

      Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

      By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
      We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines. External and internal innovations generate... View Details
      Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Innovation; Citations; Scientists; Entrepreneurs; External; Internal; Patents; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Research and Development; Science
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      • July 2020
      • Article

      Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
      This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation
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      • 24 Oct 2018
      • HBS Seminar

      Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts Amherst