by Scott Nover - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal

Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation

Leaders have gone to great lengths in the name of innovation—and yet far too often these efforts fall short, according to Scott Anthony (MBA 2001), a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and one of the authors... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Thomas B. McCabe

McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

2023
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The Harvard USPTO Patent Dataset: A Large-Scale, Well-Structured, and Multi-Purpose Corpus of Patent Applications

By: Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Suproteem K. Sarkar, Scott Duke Kominers and Stuart Shieber

Innovation is a major driver of economic and social development, and information about many kinds of innovation is embedded in semi-structured data from patents and patent applications. Though the impact and novelty of innovations expressed in patent data are difficult... View Details

Keywords: USPTO; Natural Language Processing; Classification; Summarization; Patent Novelty; Patent Trolls; Patent Enforceability; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science

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04 Sep 2019
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@Soldiers Field

SUNNY DELIGHT: Above: In late June, Schwartz Common was the location for “Summerfest” lunchtime fun, with generous servings of ice cream, sunshine, and cornhole served up to the HBS community. (photo by Leah Fasten) LIGHTS, CAMERA,... View Details

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

elaborate a definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition builds on the analytical success of previous approaches while enabling the analysis of business models through the analysis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Bookshelf

by Scott Green (MBA 1989)(Wiley) A practical approach for managers who want to improve internal controls to prevent fraud. Learning to Love Africa by Monique Maddy (MBA 1993)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art

Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

Sawyer is one of two bots that Rethink Robotics has developed for the small-business market. (courtesy of Rethink Robotics) You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement

Mitch Tuchman and Scott Puritz (photo by Kim Marshall) Mitch Tuchman (MBA 1982) was a successful software entrepreneur in the exuberant 1990s when his first son, Jack, was born. A year later, Tuchman’s life... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2015
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Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers

Through UP Education Network, founder Scott Given (MBA 2010) is helping to turn around chronically underperforming Massachusetts schools by making and managing significant changes in all areas, from... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2014
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Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World

always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google... View Details

Keywords: cybersecurity; Information

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings... View Details