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- May 2004
- Background Note
56K Modem Battle
By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
Yoffie, David B., and Deborah Freier. "56K Modem Battle." Harvard Business School Background Note 704-501, May 2004.
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
knowledge, can and did revitalize companies quickly. Corporate board members, please take note! The impact of our classmates also can be seen across the globe. Raymond Kwok's astute management of Hong Kong–based Sun Hung Kai Properties... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- January 2011
- Supplement
Matrix Capital Management (B)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-048, January 2011.
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the emerging superportable market would be huge, and HP engineers thought they could leverage existing intellectual property in drive design from their high-end 2.5" laptop drives. In other words,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
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 Publication: American Economic Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
pressure from existing licensees. Further, as the company advanced one of its newest technology developments, a cooling technology for portable devices, it had to contend with markets where there were not strong property rights regimes.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
conditions and competing forms of entertainment that is displacing legitimate sales." The industry is rethinking its position, although change occurs slowly. Q: Let's talk strategy. What have been the recording companies' strategies to date for combating their... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
benefits. The results suggest that the value retirees place on protection against longevity risk is an important caveat to the widespread enthusiasm for a switch to a slower-growing price index such as the chained CPI-U. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
gene therapy startup. It was spun out of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The company had taken with it much of the intellectual property and talent that CHOP had developed and is considering... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants usually consider their View Details
- 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
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
increasing taxes on property sold less than five years after buying it, however, was defeated over fears that it might hurt homeowners who needed to sell newly acquired property. At the same time it has tried to ease the housing crisis,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
industries to truly be off-the-grid in some ways: Not digital-first, not adhering to regular market forces—because it's sports. It's live. And I think now the silver lining for this industry is that opportunity to move away from calling it a sports industry. This is a... View Details
- March 2011
- Article
Cheaper Patents
By: Tom Nicholas
The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Global Range; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Fluctuation; Motivation and Incentives; Distribution Industry; United States; Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Cheaper Patents." Research Policy 40, no. 2 (March 2011).
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
abstinence, are the best-known way for women to protect themselves from HIV. The researchers randomly chose a sample of 1,222 stylists (who were unaware of the experiment) and divided them into four incentive groups. The control group... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Heterogeneity in innovation, given a cost of commercialization, results in NPEs that choose to act as "patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
students recognize the interplay between intellectual property (IP) rights and corporate strategy. We do this by examining what is a fairly atypical circumstance today in which a single firm is able to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
put luggage on wheels and they changed the nature of how people travel. Now I drag it around. Those were two things that existed, right? It wasn't a new technology. It wasn't some new intellectual property... View Details