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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Kira Fabrizio, Boston University

    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

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    4. Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

    Joint work with Lee Fleming (Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School) and David Chen (Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Business School and Harvard School of... View Details
    • 2000
    • Working Paper

    The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

    By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
    In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details
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      William R. Kerr

      William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
      • 12 Sep 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr
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      A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

      The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details
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      Overview

      My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

      By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
      Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
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      • 11 Jun 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

      pains to bedeck in holiday spirit. “Samsung has more active US patents than any other firm,” says Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor at HBS. “They have also been sued more than any other firm.” Many of these suits were by so-called View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
      • 05 Sep 2023
      • Book

      Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

      and turned each stumble into something to celebrate. Blakely retooled her marketing and patent application until eventually she persuaded someone to take a chance on the idea—which turned out to be Spanx, one of the most successful... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 14 Sep 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity

      Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr
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      AIDS in Africa: Life, Death and Property Rights

      By: Debora L. Spar
      In the final years of the twentieth century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--the plague of AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought... View Details
      • February 2024
      • Article

      Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

      By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
      An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable”, resources and point to redeployment of... View Details
      Keywords: Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Assets
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      • 2018
      • Chapter

      The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Nicholas Bagley, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
      On the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Research and Development; Investment; Markets; Monopoly
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      Capturing Value from Intellectual Property (IP) in a Global Environment

      By: Juan Alcácer, Karin Beukel and Bruno Cassiman
      Globalization should provide firms with an opportunity to leverage their know-how and reputation across countries to create value. However, it remains challenging for them to actually capture that value using traditional Intellectual Property (IP) tools. In this paper,... View Details
      Keywords: Appropriation Strategy; Counterfeit; Intellectual Property Rights; Litigation; Value Capturing; Intellectual Property; Rights; Value; Lawsuits and Litigation; Global Range; Situation or Environment
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      The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

      By: Karen Mills
      An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details
      • 16 Mar 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

      Business School Associate Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury examined how, when, and whether nonstop flights could spark an increase in new ideas. In a broad examination of flight and patent data, Choudhury and co-authors found that a 10... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation
      • 21 Jan 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln