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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
the core for granted and expect nothing more than slow expansion here as you pursue "real" growth elsewhere, but successful firms focus on gaining share "every quarter and reinvigorating the core at all times," George... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
their companies public, and to grant stock options to management. Once public, stock valuations depended on Wall Street's perceptions that the company would sustain strong growth. At first, newspaper chains met growth targets by acquiring... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
Psychological Science Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary Drink Portion Limits By: John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto Abstract—In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated are disproportionately those issued to individuals and to smaller,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions. Rather than simply accepting their fate and dutifully chasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
School Case 313-036 This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms. In February 2011, Judge Travis Laster View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
lecturer at HBS specializing in corporate reporting, and Krzus, a public policy and external affairs partner with Grant Thornton LLP. They recently authored One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy. "This new path isn't... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Indian medicinal texts. Using a unique dataset of herbal patents filed between 1977 and 2013, we find that adoption of the TKDL affected the level of herbal patent filings and grants and shifted the nature of patenting away from pure... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance, and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006—starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents—being granted more patents than all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For both portals and their partners, the more exclusively bound one party is, the more likely its counterparty is to be granted contingent control rights. Additionally, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of patents covered by the standard to make a loose commitment to grant licenses on reasonable terms. Such commitments unsurprisingly are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
organizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55936 forthcoming Psychological Science Using Behavioral Science to Inform the Design of Sugary Drink Portion Limit Policies By: John, Leslie, Grant E.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
private information with borrowers. When lenders grant debt forgiveness to borrowers, borrowers communicate that information to other borrowers, who are then more likely to strategically default on their own obligations. This strategic... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
sense that we didn't even have an income tax until 1913. It was viewed as unconstitutional and we needed an amendment to allow us to have a direct income tax. Around the same time, the corporate income tax was introduced. So, some of the key features of the tax system... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
constrained environment of norms, regulations, and practices that are taken for granted or in a context of pluralistic and contested demands (D'Aunno, Succi, and Alexander, 2000; Denis, Lamothe, and Langley, 2001; Abbott, 1988; D'Aunno,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
art citations listed in all U.S. patents granted in 2001-2003 and found that examiners played a significant role in identifying prior art, adding 63% of citations on the average patent, and all citations on 40% of patents granted. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace