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  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 firms in California and New England, drawing... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 03 Jun 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Inducement Prizes and Innovation

Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood of bankruptcy and employee count as well as patent count, publication... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

argue that an important, but so far neglected, factor was a developing market for innovation and a patent attorney system that was conducive to rapid technical change. We support our hypothesis using patent... View Details
  • July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

TaKaDu

By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Customer Selection; Business Marketing; High-tech Marketing; Enterprise Resource Planning; Water Resources; Water Management; Utilities; Product Positioning; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Australia; Israel
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  • September 2020
  • Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Business: Markets, STEM, Gas Restoration William R. Kerr 29 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg Radio Global talent fosters innovation and collaborative patents Sari Pekkala Kerr & William Kerr 28 Oct 2018 | LSE Business Review America’s Need for... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

into a giant field experiment against their will. "It doesn’t mean you have to be in the office every week. The guiding principle is that the team decides what the co-location schedule will be." The results of the BRAC experiment follow Choudhury’s separate study of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Adaptation (52) Organizational Culture (92) Organizational Design (139) Organizational Structure (16) Organizations (518) Outcome or Result (36) Ownership Type (9) Ownership (51) Partners and Partnerships (7) Patents (22) Perception (26)... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

and would have to fit neatly in stacks. McLean patented a steel-reinforced corner-post structure, which allowed the trailers to be gripped for loading from their wheeled platforms and provided the strength needed for stacking. At the same... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

    Ray A. Goldberg

    A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
    • 24 Apr 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

    decisions because they fear failure. I know, because it happened to me. In my first year as CEO of Medtronic, I passed up the opportunity to buy a rapidly growing angioplasty company because it faced patent and pricing risks. While those... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    cost, worthwhile profits can be made, while bringing enormous health and happiness to large populations.” The approach turns traditional marketing on its head This model encourages manufacturers to offer their often-contested patented... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • 03 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

    Patents are granted on a country-by-country basis (with a single application available for the European Union). In the United States, if an invention is sold or made public, there's a year's grace period to file a View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 25 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

    either way, labor market competition among firms would close these gaps over time for mobile workers. Immigrants account for large percentage of patents Outside immigrant business owners, Kerr’s previous research shows that immigrants... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
    • 07 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

    years beyond when this regulation was passed, and the world has changed,” Cohen says. “We can actually pay people for what they do, instead of who they are.” You Might Also Like: IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional' The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis