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  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across patent technology clusters. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

Tracleer, which Actelion sold and marketed worldwide. However, Tracleer's looming patent expiry in a few years and recent late-stage pipeline setbacks had put the company under pressure from investors. While Clozel was confident in their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Getting the Message

Global Internet Practice. He previously served as founder and CEO of an interactive brand marketing consultancy, where he developed patented applications to help corporations build relationships between their brands and their customers in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 23 Jun 2015
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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
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Even in the absence of national health coverage, the United States became the world's largest prescription drug market and emerged as the global leader in new drug research and testing. With health benefits globally from the availability of new drugs, albeit for poorer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

Lauder Companies with global packaging as a key responsibility, Caracappa had to assess a recent proposal he had received from a small French company that had patented a packaging innovation. The innovation could save the Estée Lauder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

experience, 2) top management teams, 3) board-management relations, and 4) executive compensation. We discuss theoretical implications and consider future directions and research opportunities. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

http://hbr.org/search/114007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-011 TaKaDu In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster with firm size than external innovation. Download... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

have easily monopolized the marketplace with his discovery, Fairburn instead made the patented process available to the entire industry at no cost. His gesture sent the match industry on a reinvigorated growth path. Throughout each decade... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 America. LR: What lies ahead... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Germany. However, they improved on the process, patented it, and one of the engineers moved back to the United States to introduce the innovations back there. The one who had gone in the 1930s remained in Germany and licensed the improved... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic drug substitution, international competitors, and complex public policy issues. This case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than a thousand other View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

China) in multilateral negotiations, notably in the World Trade Organization's Doha Round. Yet Brazil's actions to enforce a compulsory license of a patented therapy for HIV/AIDS and its victory in a longstanding WTO dispute with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover, local governments can succeed in transferring value to local firms and influencing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, the tables turned. Colgate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace