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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Deepak Hegde and Alexander Ljungqvist
We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Biotechnology Strategies in 1992

    Describes the strategies of biotechnology companies which face similar uncertainties and illustrates different types of strategic responses to uncertainty. Each firm faces the strategic issues of which end-use industries to choose, how broad their product line should... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
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    • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Bulb 2015: Foundation

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy... View Details
    Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Start-ups; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom
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    • 24 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
    • May 2013
    • Case

    Bridgewater Associates

    By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner
    Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance; Leadership Style; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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    • 25 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

    Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Bain, World Food Programme, Goldman Sachs, Brandeval HBS ACTIVITIES HBS Show, Wine & Cuisine Society Yaoxin Ding While serving as a product manager at Fiat, Yaoxin worked closely with... View Details

      Brian K. Baik

      Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Baik studies how information, financial reporting, and... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • 01 Jun 2008
      • News

      The Prophet of Start-Ups

      the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public... View Details
      Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
      • 19 May 2015
      • News

      Small Business Lending: The World Has Changed

      • March 2021 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners

      By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
      Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás Ibáñez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Investment; Ownership; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Latin America; Chile
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      • 30 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Entering the Age of Alliances

      competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance... View Details
      Keywords: by James Austin
      • September 2016 (Revised March 2021)
      • Case

      DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital

      By: Shawn Cole, Mark Kramer, Tony L. He, Anshul Maudar and T. Robert Zochowski
      This case explores the origins and current practices of DBL, a San Francisco–based venture capital fund and one of the first impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Tanzania
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      • 08 Feb 2013
      • News

      A start-up epidemic is spreading across the country, but are some sectors falling behind?

      • 30 Nov 2021
      • In Practice

      What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

      The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
      • 03 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Is the Future of MBA Education?

      brings new reports of hedge fund closings and the scaling back of private equity investments. Not surprisingly, the enormously high compensation... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
      • Case

      HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI

      Stan Williams, leading nanotech researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, must decide whether to renew the firm's sponsorship of California NanoSystems Institute, spend the funds on internal R&D, or fund foreign universities. Illustrates the challenge of managing... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; California
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      • 07 Jun 2023
      • Blog Post

      My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

      middle-skill workforce. What case made an impact on you and why?The “QuikTrip” case stands out for me. The case features a CEO who is expanding his business to a new market and must decide what kind of View Details
      • June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc.--1987 (A)

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      An integrated sequence of three cases on the financing of a technical workstation manufacturer. This case focuses on Sun's competitive strategy which requires an inordinately high rate of growth (over 20% per quarter) and commensurate amounts of working capital.... View Details
      Keywords: Cash Flow; Competitive Strategy; Financing and Loans; Capital; Financial Strategy; Public Equity; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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