Intellectual Property Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2011
Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (B)

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

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Purchase

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

government's data, there are security, privacy, and intellectual property concerns about private-sector data. But Data.gov shows that those things are manageable." View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

worthless from the get-go. Another advantage is the seller does not incur a huge sunk cost, which strengthens their bargaining position. But intellectual property protection is not perfect, and disclosing an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

... (but is) not well suited to areas where there are singular correct answers." This fostered a debate about whether there are ever single right answers. Adrian Grigoriu posited that "... there can only be one best solution ...... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

leaders’ virtues was Humility. Humility is a broad quality, but it has a few important dimensions. Intellectual humility is the virtue of knowing that no matter how smart you think you are, you can always learn something from other... View Details

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

trade in intellectual property are fragmentary. The intangibility of the trade makes measurement difficult, but budget cuts have added to the difficulties. Modest funding increases would result in data more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

says. "A property right is assigned to produce a certain amount of pollution and then market principles go to work. Afterward, in discussion, we look at what's happened and see that we've held pollution... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil and property View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog

Despite different outcomes, each founder has made a difference that others can build on. And, by pushing their intellectual and emotional limits, founders usually emerge stronger and more resilient. The Founder Mindset is a course about... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

the firm and the open logic of the market. To successfully employ this model, firms must learn to shepherd communities, leverage them without exploiting them, and share intellectual property rights. Last... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

"intellectual property factory" in La Jolla, California in order to take advantage of the free(r) flow of talent. I'm surprised that more Massachusetts companies haven't opened offices just over the border in Connecticut, which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

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

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

concern over piracy has been blown out of proportion." Still, Sviokla sees major challenges ahead for record labels. "They had better get busy understanding how they're going to police their intellectual View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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

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Educators

Purchase

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

held the record for the largest buyout, Equity Office Properties at $38.9 billion, which was eclipsed by the recent $45 billion TXU deal. How big can deals go? I don’t know. That’s a game that people always like talking about. I don’t... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

agenda was rethinking Baker Library, the School’s intellectual — and physical — center. Part of the original HBS campus, Baker was dedicated in 1927 and initially housed books, classrooms, and offices. While the library’s world-class... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

demonstrates "the depth of the School's commitment to building intellectual capital in the region," says Yeh. The former investment banker and longtime Hong Kong resident has already welcomed several faculty members to this "home away... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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