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  • Teaching Interest

Private Equity and Venture Capital (Executive Education)

By: Josh Lerner

As equity markets appear to strengthen, interest rates remain low, and asset values look attractive, private equity firms are uniquely positioned to pursue new opportunities. This View Details

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Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation

By: Amitabh Chandra, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen L. Miller and Ariel Dora Stern
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to understand if regulators can use new policy to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Mapping Organizational-Level Networks Using Individual-Level Connections: Evidence from Online Professional Networks

By: Shelley Xin Li, Frank Nagle and Aner Zhou
Organization-level networks facilitate the flow of information and business activities in the economy. Prior research relies solely on high-level connections to measure these networks. Therefore, to understand the role of employee connections at all job levels in... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Value; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Social Media
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  • July 2007 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

Saffronart.com: Bidding for Success

By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
Saffronart, a five-year-old online art auction company, leads the market for modern Indian art and now faces competitors in the market it created. Established in 2000 by the wife-and-husband team of Minal and Dinesh Vazirani, Saffronart.com is an innovative online... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Auctions; Industry Growth; Competition; Online Technology; Fine Arts Industry; India
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    Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions

     

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling • SCIENCE • VIDEO

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    • January 2004
    • Article

    Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
    The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Brands and Branding; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Great Britain
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    • February 2023
    • Article

    Disruption and Credit Markets

    By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
    We show that over the past half century innovative disruptions were central to understanding corporate defaults. In a given year, industries experiencing abnormally high VC or IPO activity subsequently see higher default rates, higher segment exits by conglomerates,... View Details
    Keywords: Default; Corporate Bonds; Disruption; Corporate Finance; Bonds
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    • March 2020
    • Module Note

    Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age

    By: Feng Zhu
    Although some digital platforms are highly successful, most firms today are still traditional product- or service-based firms. To take advantage of the opportunities created by platform business models, traditional firms can work with existing platforms to become their... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Platform Businesses; Platform Disruption; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Transformation; Digital Platforms
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

    By: Josh Lerner
    Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research; Problems and Challenges
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    • February 1994
    • Case

    Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc.: Pioneering Carbohydrate Technology

    Alpha-Beta was founded in 1988 by two scientist-entrepreneurs with ten patents on carbohydrate technology. In 1991, the company faces critical questions about how to focus its product definition from among several promising, but risky, choices. How should they analyze... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Design; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry
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    • 01 May 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Davidson Heath, University of Utah

    • October 2022
    • Case

    Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim
    Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Ecosystem; Inclusion; People Of Color; Network; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; Entrepreneur; Change; Change Barriers; Change Leadership; Community; Innovation; Pandemic; Impact; Systemic Racism; Minority-owned Businesses; Social and Collaborative Networks; Equity; Race; Small Business; Prejudice and Bias; Boston
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      Disruption and Credit Markets

      When innovation and entry are high in an industry, is this good or bad news for incumbents? We show that recently the answer has been bad news.  Industries with elevated venture capital activity and returns, and with a larger presence of newly listed firms, show a... View Details

      • July–August 2018
      • Article

      Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods

      By: Frank Nagle
      As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details
      Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage
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      • 22 Apr 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering

      • Article

      Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law

      By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
      The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Law
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      By: Rebecca M. Henderson
      My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational... View Details
      • August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
      • Case

      Trouble with a Bubble

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
      Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
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      • 02 Jul 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices

      Keywords: by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo; Medical Devices & Supplies
      • Article

      Navigating Talent Hot Spots

      By: William R. Kerr
      Innovation clusters like San Francisco and Boston have long had an outsize impact on the global economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris,... View Details
      Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Invention; Urban Scope; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Management
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