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  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

each of the HBS faculty member's recent insights as described in Management 21C. The Genius Factor Mention the word "genius" and what comes to mind? Most likely a lone person gifted with extraordinary intellectual powers, talents, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Covenants not to Compete in the United States, United Kingdom and France to compete or trade secrets versus patents as alternative ways to protect a businesses' intellectual property. Purchase this note:... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

leading universities in June 2012 to call for increased party supervision of higher education. Deans and presidents everywhere must make decisions and set priorities. In reality, however, many of the best ideas—those that deans and presidents will be compelled to... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Growth; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Size; Research and Development; United States
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  • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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  • April 2008
  • Article

The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu
This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

for continuous innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship under a system of government that isn’t known for welcoming disruption. The government’s hyperfocus on intellectual property View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

fix it. A simple solution would be to not issue so many permits, which is easier said than done. Another is to allow unused permits to be banked for future periods, while a third would be to establish a government-imposed floor or ceiling on trading prices that would... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

focus its attention moving forward. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709458 Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B) Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

course, starting a company at an opportune time and place also displays a certain kind of skill as well.Q: What are some of the more actively pursued industries by entrepreneurs? A: Venture capitalists typically invest in industries that have substantial growth... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

adviser. Intellectual property based on the science, which offered a radical way to construct lithium-ion batteries that promised higher energy densities, was licensed from MIT. The concept for the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2023
  • Teaching Note

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle
Teaching Note for HBS Case 722-414. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry
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Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, author of the epochal On Crimes and Punishments. Yet the views and concerns of these first socialists, developed inside a pugnacious intellectual coterie dubbed the Academy of Fisticuffs, differ... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2019
  • Teaching Note

CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap

By: William R. Kerr and Ted Smalley Bowen
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-081. The teaching note presents background, case details, and teaching strategies, along with board plans and supporting graphics. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Demographics; Economics; Education; Energy; Jobs and Positions; Intellectual Property; Labor; Knowledge; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Projects; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Technology; Energy Industry; North and Central America
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  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

intellectual property environment so that they can build effective participation strategies for their organizations. Understanding the misaligned incentives that result in the production of junk patents and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

management and opportunities? What's the buzz? A: Some small businesses are concerned about how to find capital and partners. Some protected domestic companies are concerned about the government's growing interest in foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology company, notably uneven enforcement of intellectual property in emerging market countries and uncertainty... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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