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- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
of intellectual property theft by foreign competitors grows and secrecy becomes a more attractive strategy for firms to protect and capitalize on their innovations, this question is becoming increasingly important to policymakers and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
one project ($5.4 billion for Peter Cooper Village, also in New York City) and now the second largest LBO ever after TXU ($39 billion takeover of commercial property owner Equity Office View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Kevin McCall (HBS MBA '81), president and CEO of Paradigm Holdings, LLC, a Massachusetts-based owner and operator of multi-tenanted office buildings. McCall described the process of locating and developing a View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Harvard Business School Case 409-107 Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
University. CIBER sponsored the study, which will be released on April 16th. Among the preliminary findings is that most companies are not deterred by security or intellectual property concerns when considering outsourcing moves to Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
United States Patent and Trademark Office on the number of medical device patents in states during the same period. They found, on average, that once a state passed laws limiting awards in a medical tort case, the number of patents in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be regulating rather than the public interest.] Any program that assigns subsidies or... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
China Harvard Business School Case 209-021 The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was the holding company for a number of property and casualty insurance companies which operated in 29 countries. In 1979, the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for the use of herbal remedies that... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
note. Fold in the recent rise of remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the question arises: Has the trend peaked? Tech history as told by patents To look at the trends, Kerr and Chattergoon examined detailed filings from the US Patent and Trademark View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
crowd-sourcing platform, while it transitioned away from traditional screen printing to a digital print-on-demand model. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 accelerated the company’s transition, triggering the sale of Threadless’s View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
major trading partners. Entering office in January 2011, Rousseff had the opportunity to outline a new agenda for international trade. Specifically, she had to decide whether to seek completion of the Doha Round, which was in a stalement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
property position. Within the study, the computer and Internet, telecommunications, and life sciences industries are disproportionately represented because they have those characteristics. When we look at the more recent years in our... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
confident of the market potential for mobile payments, they recognized the challenges they faced in scaling their current business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811029-PDF-ENG Office of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne