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  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Selecting a group of fourteen firms of various sizes from three industries (energy, steel, and food/beverages) in four countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico), the two scholars set about to find answers through field research.... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • January 2019 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate

By: Marco Di Maggio and Sarah Gulick
In November 2018, Shaival Shah, the founder and CEO of Ribbon Home had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such... View Details
Keywords: Consumers; Real Estate; Property; Finance; Digital Platforms; Business Model; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

Said Dodd of the conference's goals: "We wanted to ignite aspirations and implant some ideas for people to think about pursuing in the future." The Cyberposium (http://wasat.hbs.edu/cmc/cyberposium) offered a comprehensive look at an emerging View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
  • January 2014
  • Supplement

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (C)

By: Richard Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
On September 11, 2013, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied St. Jude's request to rehear an appeal on the "double patenting" ruling for the '439 patent. Further, it removed the injunction threat that was hanging over the... View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • October 2013 (Revised January 2014)
  • Supplement

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
It was January 2013, and Fred Khosravi, chairman of the board of AccessClosure Inc., wondered what the new year had in store for him and AccessClosure, the company he founded in late 2002. Khosravi was cautiously optimistic—the Mountain View, California-based medical... View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States; California
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  • May 2014
  • Supplement

RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (B)

By: Willy C. Shih and Gregory Dieterich
This case is a supplement to 614-072, which examines the early history of the color television receiver market, and the global consequences of an historic 1958 consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that opened RCA's patents to licensing by domestic... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Rights; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business History; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States; Japan
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  • 28 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 28

209-152 Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to separate or commingled funds, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

The Next Big Thing

operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a common understanding of the challenges the life-sciences... View Details
Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • December 2012 (Revised May 2014)
  • Case

Hotel Ivory

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Jonathan Lo
Cheick Sanankoua is an MBA student who believes that he has found the perfect investment property, a small, independently owned hotel, on the Ivory Coast. However, he has had trouble raising money for the investment beyond friends and family. Through contacts in the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Emergent Countries; Investing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Debts; Cash Flow; Quantitative Analysis; Financing; Development Stage Enterprises; Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Africa; Ivory Coast; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Property; Investment; Accommodations Industry; Accommodations Industry; Africa
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  • February 2005 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Rx Depot: Importing Drugs from Canada

By: Debora L. Spar
In 2002, a handful of entrepreneurs began to ship drugs from Canada into the United States, taking advantage of regulatory and price differentials across the neighboring countries. Using the Internet and a low-cost network of Canadian pharmacies, firms like Rx Depot... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Laws and Statutes; Pharmaceutical Industry; Canada; United States
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  • November 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Teaching Note

Sony and the JK Wedding Dance (TN)

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for 510064. View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Copyright; Situation or Environment; Online Technology; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 29 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

A CEO Goes Undercover

about John Briggs as he adapted to his new, unfamiliar job. In fact, I was eager for the undercover experience because I’d never worked the frontline jobs in the theme-park industry and didn’t want any CEO-type special treatment. Plus, I... View Details
Keywords: Joel Manby; reality television; social class; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

industries and poor selection of investments within industries. Venture capital organizations with more experience tend to outperform those with less experience. Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook Author:Sachin H. Jain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a... View Details
  • June 2024
  • Teaching Note

Numenta in 2020: The Future of AI

By: David B. Yoffie
In 2020, Numenta’s co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, completed his pathbreaking research on artificial intelligence. His co-founder and CEO, Donna Dubinsky, had to find a business model to monetize the technology. This teaching note explores the challenges of building a... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Monetization; Strategy; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry
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  • 29 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and strategic exit (SmarterKids.com), and helped develop TV shows and product lines for major networks like PBS, Disney,... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne