Intellectual Property Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2009
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Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs

This article uses historical data on inventor and firm R&D lab locations to examine the technological and geographic structure of corporate knowledge capital accumulation during a formative period in the organization of US innovation. Despite the localization of... View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Knowledge Acquisition; Research and Development; United States

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07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

companies feared that the precedent set by the South African move would undermine their control over valuable intellectual property in the developing world. But the suit sparked international outrage against... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

Strategies for protecting and developing intellectual property The emergence of an increasingly powerful middle class and its impact on the consumer market and corporate social responsibility Audience This... View Details

April 2011
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Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation

By: Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg

A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Investment; Innovation and Invention

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February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
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Veridian: Putting a Value on Values

By: Rakesh Khurana, Joel Podolny and Jaan Margus Elias

David Langstaff, the CEO of Veridian, a defense company, struggles with the decision of selling the company. Langstaff has concerned himself with inculcalating his organization with the values necessary for superior achievement over the long term. But as a fiduciary,... View Details

Keywords: Cash; Corporate Governance; Financial Markets; Law; Leadership; Patents; Values and Beliefs; Service Industry; Aerospace Industry

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Portrait Project

Missy Blakeley

intellectually satiated. I will see the world – not just look, but see. I will choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong. I will embrace the opportunities I never truly believed I would have. Yet,... View Details

07 Jun 2020
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Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation

Keywords: by Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda, and Richard Townsend; Financial Services

April 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Black Duck Software

By: Constance E. Bagley and David Lane

Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or open source protocols into an opportunity to help firms use technology to better manage their compliance efforts.... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Law; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Copyright

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application only once per application cycle. The Admissions Board will not consider any additional materials or changes once an application has been submitted. The completed application becomes the confidential property of Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Books

should ensure that the right parties have been approached, in the right sequence, to address the right interests, under the right expectations,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

May 2002 (Revised October 2005)
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Marketing Antidepressants: Prozac and Paxil

By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman

Describes the marketing of Prozac and Paxil, two of the best-selling mental health drugs in history. Set in 2001, several months before the expiration of Prozac's patent, Eli Lilly (Prozac's manufacturer) and GlaxoSmithKline (Paxil's manufacturer) must decide how to... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Product Positioning; Competition; Ethics; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Brands and Branding; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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Amanda Yang

engaging in meaningful conversations with family or friends, leading intellectual discussions with small groups, and organizing a conference to advance an important cause with like-minded classmates. I will make the View Details

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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

including property rights and competition – and several of the most pressing problems that are allegedly inherent in their development. After reviewing some of capitalism’s most important international... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

endowments would not necessarily result in similar returns. The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues Author: Josh Lerner... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

The House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement met recently to hash out concerns related to the H-1B program, one of the most controversial of foreign visa topics in the United States. At issue was a stubborn question that politicians, corporations,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

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Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento

We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives

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