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- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
patented a lead drug candidate that increases lifespan in a mouse model of a non-small cell lung cancer model by 50 percent. This lead drug is the first in Lime's planned pipeline of medicines that will be working their way towards human... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
H. Duell, Commission of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 (early in Gordon’s “special century”). What I believe, based on personal homework, is limited to just a few things: (1) there is economic growth and then there is economic growth, (2)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
with numerous visits to the Library of Congress and the Patent Office. "I had to buy over 1,000 pieces of glassware to describe and photograph. After the company closed, I was able to go through old sales, production, and financial... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
prints automatically with no chemical residue. Ronald K. Fierstein, A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War (Chicago: American Bar Association, 2015), 71. View Details
- 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
- 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