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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
but they are very concerned about competitors' ability to benefit from LEGO Group's R&D investments or alternately interfere with its freedom to operate. The case frames important intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
Due to racial discrimination, white vacationers have an easier time booking an Airbnb rental property than African-Americans do, according to a new study from faculty at Harvard Business School. The problem seems to lie in all the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are described, along with the challenges of creating and operating multilateral institutions.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
hyperfocus on intellectual property protection can also hinder collaboration with the international partners they need to serve Chinese consumers’ needs. There’s a wave of older government leaders who are... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
leading universities in June 2012 to call for increased party supervision of higher education. Deans and presidents everywhere must make decisions and set priorities. In reality, however, many of the best ideas—those that deans and presidents will be compelled to... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
and take on consulting work while she dedicated herself to finding the right learning situation for Katie. Eventually, she came to the conclusion that homeschooling would be the best choice. But several of the experts she consulted... View Details
- 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.
- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
find an opportunity for his president to have a "casual conversation" with another president within the very formal confines of the United Nations' General Assembly. Juan found the right moment – by directing his boss to the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
emphasizes the importance of intellectual property rights, and the "fairly transparent and efficient" nature of the FDA. Maintaining this competitive advantage, he noted, requires the reversal of two... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Working PapersAuditing in the Self-reporting Economy Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the licensing of intellectual property in exchange for royalties that depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2010 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged)
The case describes two individuals who have met and are in the process of starting a company together. Each is still at his/her former employer, and each has signed a different employment agreement that, on paper, may prohibit some of the contemplated acts—i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Resignation and Termination; Intellectual Property; Law; Agreements and Arrangements
Roberts, Michael J. "Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 810-114, March 2010. (Revised April 2012.)
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
all out, you discover that it’s not the right technology for the problem.” Academic researchers are “almost too married to their ideas and technologies, but I don’t blame them,” says Maria Roche, assistant professor in the Strategy Unit... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
the Bulletin, a cavalcade of ideas, old and new, that have put the School on the intellectual map. Some of the articles will look back on outstanding accomplishments of distinguished faculty. Others, based on a series of faculty... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
an organized framework to help individuals make intelligent choices. It presents ways to identify the right problem or opportunity, probe one's values, generate and evaluate alternatives, think about tradeoffs, and cope with uncertainties... View Details
- Web
RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
debates over the taxation of individuals and firms, the provision of economic assistance, and the determination of the boundaries of policy. As this summary shows, the cases we discuss take us step-by-step through a rigorous conceptual framework that provides the View Details
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Alltech
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details
Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change Management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; Management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
technologies allow information to flow seamlessly and invisibly across national borders, they make it very difficult for governments to do many of the things to which they have grown accustomed. Governments can't patrol their physical territories in cyberspace; they... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
of expertise, and the solution may reside in another. Find innovative licensing ways or legal regimes that allow people to share knowledge without risking the overall intellectual property of the firm. View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr