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- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
and examples of how it is impacting the food industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517064 Harvard Business School Case 218-085 Patent Trolling The U.S. Intellectual Property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2019
- Teaching Note
CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
By: William R. Kerr and Ted Smalley Bowen
Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-081. The teaching note presents background, case details, and teaching strategies, along with board plans and supporting graphics. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Training; Demographics; Economics; Education; Energy; Jobs and Positions; Intellectual Property; Labor; Knowledge; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Projects; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Technology; Energy Industry; North and Central America
- July 2013
- Article
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529–1544.
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details
- August 2008
- Article
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
intellectual property arrangements are also necessary.” At the colloquium, Bowen’s colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled “Emerging Models of Corporate Research,” which centered on... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and historical reputation in their... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Institutional Voice | About
endeavor requires a commitment to the values of free inquiry, intellectual expertise, and productive argument among divergent points of view. The University and its leaders have a responsibility to speak out to protect and promote this... View Details
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access
other part of diversity and part of the human experience. Landon Hollingsworth (MBA/MPA-ID 2024): And it is a facet of a person's identity. It's not a condition. It's not something to be solved. It's something to be celebrated. Teresa Danso-Danquah: If 1 in 4 people... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
the Market Class session 12: Planetary Resources: Property Rights in Space Summary: The founders of Planetary Resources wanted to give humanity access to the entire solar system’s resources and energy, not... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
Werker's study. "Legal rights were weaker, it took more time to register property [and] more money to start a business, and there were higher corporate taxes and informal payments to government... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
Means, whose 1932 book The Modern Corporation and Private Property has been lauded as the most important business book of all time, our paper unveils new research on the legal framework underpinning fiduciary duty around the world. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
logo, and selecting the right products and services that enhanced her revitalized brand. And, she had to decide where to site the new hotel properties to best compete against global behemoths, Starwood,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
every stage they work with a network of policymakers and practitioners, who contribute feedback on the relevance and potential impact of the research. Developing this approach has been a process of looking at how to translate phenomenal View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
financial crises, and weak intellectual property rights. HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution (Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
contests. Industries discussed include energy, green technology, infrastructure and cities, and sustainability. In addition, the importance of fostering a collaborative online environment and protecting intellectual View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino