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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Several conclusions arise than can help inform the design of care delivery platforms for HIV/AIDS. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-093.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAccenture's War for Talent in India Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a strong boost to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each of the different paths. After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior. Bertini and Koenigsberg explain that advances in technology have made it possible for firms to collect “impact data” that tells... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Another difference is the sheer size of the industry. Telecom is now of comparable size by some measures but certainly wasn't initially. Before the Second World War there was no information technology industry. That's an important... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Publication:Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming) Abstract This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the war ended, Phillips was well positioned to meet the pent-up needs of consumers. His counterpart, Clarence Saunders, who founded Piggly Wiggly, was a consummate Mold-Breaker. He fundamentally revolutionized grocery shopping by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the Panic of 1907, and advanced by professional economists, like Irving Fisher and Warren Persons, after World War I. By the late-1920s, about a dozen forecasters competed to sell businesspeople their predictions, usually in the form of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
this or this,” she says, flipping between the two orientations. The technology to make this happen seamlessly is one that they’ve patented and among a half-dozen tech-based innovations they’re hoping will transform mobile storytelling. At... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
World War I, it was allowed to share patents with AT&T, Westinghouse, and United Fruit, which used radio to communicate across its infrastructure of plantations and transportation links throughout Latin... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
around a first wave of globalization from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s and a second wave that started after World War 2, intensified from the 1980s until around the 2008 global financial crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Even in the absence of national health coverage, the United States became the world's largest prescription drug market and emerged as the global leader in new drug research and testing. With health benefits globally from the availability of new drugs, albeit for poorer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne