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- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
create a barrier, the technology has got to be hard to execute. Some companies have patents; some don't. We encourage them to have patents because it's a more litigious environment than it was ten years ago. We also look at the management... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
difficult feat even if non-competes were still in place. Trade secrets are becoming harder for employees to steal. First, know-how is increasingly embedded organizationally, across employees and teams. Even ignoring all the formal patents... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
as glare. Land found that placing one polarizing filter over another at a right angle halted all light vibrations. Moving the second filter back and forth created variable vibrations of light. In 1929, with Donald L. Brown, a patent... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
patents and valuable intangible assets to low-tax jurisdictions. Nobody benefits except capital owners because the companies are using it as a tax strategy, not as a springboard for building plants and hiring droves of workers. Rouen... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
grants workers the flexibility to choose where to work and live, could be a win-win for companies and employees. The pre-pandemic study that we conducted at the United States Patent Office documents 4.4 percent productivity gains in 2012... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
technology for the telecommunications market, utilizing a proprietary, patented optical process development by leading quantum researchers at Boston University. Social Enterprise Track, 2001 Low Cost Eyeglasses Neil Houghton, HBS Ashley... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
area. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID? Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness Have IT jobs lost their prestige?... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
sales would fall, and Land would have to let go of hundreds of employees. Land's patent attorney Donald Brown explained, "Before the end of the War Dr. Land had decided that the expansion of the company's business could most readily be... View Details
- Research Summary
Regulatory Change/Business-Government Relations
“Sources of Learning Heterogeneity: Discontinuous Regulatory Shock and its Impact on Organizational Search Behaviors”
Co-authoring with Jerry Kim, in this study I look at how discontinuous regulatory shock shapes organizational... View Details
Elon Kohlberg
Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.
Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details
Richard G. Hamermesh
Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: health care
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
portfolios. They examined all companies that held at least one drug patent on the market as of 2003. The researchers focused mainly on small-molecule drugs, not biologics. That’s because of how the compounds are structured chemically. The... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
the development of a firm's intellectual property. We're not talking about patenting strategies here, but rather the set of processes that contribute to building and evolving a firm's knowledge base. These processes fall into four... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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The Gift of Global Talent
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 Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
experience.” Sophie Bai is the founder and CEO of B.A.I. Technologies, a biotech company based in Cambridge that holds various patented technologies to treat skin diseases. Brianna Bai is a member of the HBS Class of 2023 and is... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
advantage for companies–if they know how to use it. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Computers make better hiring decisions than managers when filling simpler jobs. Research Papers Some Facts of High-Tech PatentingThis study details the growth of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
teachers. There's Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram yoga in America, who has aggressively fought to patent his approach to traditional yoga style. Then there is the former model and ballet dancer Tara Stiles, who isn't particularly... View Details
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Tsedal Neeley | About
work worldwide, as well as her patented software simulation on global collaboration . Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent a decade working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including... View Details