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Arnold O. Beckman
Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Joseph P. Knapp
Knapp took control of his father's small printing operation and transformed it into a publishing empire. He established the American Lithographic Company in 1895 where he invented a multicolor six cylinder press. He used this press to... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
comes to creating new ones? A: Answering this question goes back to our definition of innovation. Innovation is invention times impact. Invention is nice, but if it has no economic or social impact it is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
Business School quite closely, and I’m struck by the things that we take for granted that were once considered great innovations. The case method, for example, wasn’t with us from the day Harvard Business School was founded. It took 20 years to View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds. View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
sustaining an innovative organization? A new book written with three coauthors attempts to answer the question of why some companies, such as Pixar, are able to invent continuously, while others aren't. “Conventional leadership won't get... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Henry R. Towne
added later. This and other techniques, many of which were the invention of Towne himself, helped make his company the leader in locking equipment, from small household locks, to bank locks, and night latches. Towne was also known for... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Peter F. Hurst
In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World War II, these... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Fast Answer
Patent terminology: Prior art
What is prior art how it can be used in patenting? In order to ensure that an invention is new and non-obvious (and therefore patentable), patent examiners conduct a prior art search. In this context the term art is used as in the phrase,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Tips for Finding the Right Job at a Startup Finding a job at a startup is not the same process as hunting employment at an established business. The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs Though not everyone may know her name, Madam C.J.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
perspectives. Inventive angles, extreme close-ups, and manipulation of light and shadow could create a sense of movement, reveal new dimensions and textures, and transform the mundane and everyday into beautiful abstractions. Through... View Details
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Jayon Wang
I might as well just get used to people laughing at my ideas. At age 5, I told my mother that driving a dump-truck was my dream job. I can still hear her sweet and loving laughter. In the 10th grade, that same ambitious boy tried to View Details
- 12 Oct 2020
- News
MBA/DBA Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
news: He and fellow Stanford professor Paul Milgrom had won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics for their improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. Milgrom had his phone in Do Not Disturb mode. Wilson, who lives... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public entrepreneurs, about leading in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
many "divisional applications" derived from this original 1990 application, in which aspects of the original application were put forward as inventions in their own right. Over the course of the next decade, the PTO granted at... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
"Following the patterns, you can start to say, what's the ethnic composition of Harvard's inventors, IBM's inventors, or Cisco's inventors? This technique allows a much deeper analysis, especially within firms and institutions, than otherwise possible." The researchers... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again." 97 Land... View Details
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Caroline Fay Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Skillist: Changing Hiring For Good Ananth Kasturiraman Caroline Fay 17 May 2018 Fun fact - the resume is about 500... View Details