Intellectual Property Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the evolution and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an accountability reporting system is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

contemporaries "began to talk about companies in terms of 'distinctive competencies,' charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears—who resisted theoretical thinking—toward a more systematic... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and reward systems will... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required decision rights over... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2008
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ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

we discern four central criticisms of corporate social responsibility. When companies engage in socially responsible practices, the first concern is that managers will misappropriate corporate resources by diverting them from their View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Dec 2010
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win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

competition—confidentiality, non-compete agreements, intellectual property, and the like—are complicated and vary by country and industry. The number one thing to keep in mind, however, is that until you resign from OldCo, your duty is to... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

09 Apr 2008
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The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

potential amount of money that could be devoted to venture capital." Although little has been written about Doriot to date, he was one of the 20th-century's visionary thinkers. Based on his personal background and intellectual... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

rudimentary auction technology that would work across the network. What was difficult was getting the right information at the marketplace. It became clear that there needed to be a whole market infrastructure to create these new kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

case the record companies. We believe that from the point of view of Apple, 99 cents is too expensive. Because profit comes mainly from the sale of hardware, Apple is likely to prefer lower download prices. From the point of view of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs

By: George Serafeim, Lena Duchene and Carlota Moniz

By August 2023, Re-Match, an artificial turf waste-to-value company, had operations in Denmark and the Netherlands and had recycled over 160,000 tons of waste and plastic fiber. With recent capital injection from the VC firm Verdane and a dual revenue business model,... View Details

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12 Mar 2006
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Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Business derives its legitimacy from ideology—the ideas of property rights and marketplace competition, for example. In the 1980s, Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard and I compared the ideologies of nine... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

to the company to the economy as a whole—creativity is something that can be created and fostered if you have the right guidance and incentives. Think of the following insights and techniques, gleaned from the research of six HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

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First Look: October 7

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

First Look: August 26

First Look: July 31

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

First Look: February 6, 2007

First Look: February 5, 2008

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

First Look: Dec. 7

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

Market Makers Bid for Success

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

First Look: December 18

Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

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