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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
Gordon Jones (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Related Links: Follow i-lab news on Twitter Find the i-lab on Facebook Gordon Jones didn’t tailor his career path to become the ideal director for the Harvard innovation lab. It just worked out that way. An entrepreneur with two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
business case on the icon of daytime television and chairman of a major media empire was challenge enough for Professor Nancy Koehn and colleagues. Oprah Winfrey’s visit to the HBS campus in spring 2005 to talk with graduating students was ample reward. Sorting Out the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
Walsh spoke about creating wearable robotic equipment to help people with physical disabilities, and HBS professor Lauren H. Cohen outlined research focusing on “patent trolls” that sue cash-rich companies for patent violations. Ongoing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Masses Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) Cofounder and CEO, The Grommet “The maker movement will continue to gather steam. Each of the last three years has been record-breaking in patent issuances. Why? This is what happens when tech platforms like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
much more in common than they have that’s different, so “go wider.” If you get it right, Alex, you’ll be very successful. —Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is the founder and co-CEO of Omnizare Imaging. He is the author of more than 30 patents and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
research and for universities to strive to disseminate new knowledge and liberate it from unnecessarily restrictive patents and licensing. Indeed, many of the ideas Pisano has advanced over the years are being adopted by the biotech... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Innovation and Its Discontents by Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe (Princeton University Press) Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting — an institutional process that was created to nurture... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepared a business plan, conducted a usability analysis, and tested the product with thirty HBS students. Currently, he is patenting the methodology. With a post-HBS job at the private equity investment firm TSG Capital Group already... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
hotel room, or car rental. The suppliers of such services then decide whether or not they can meet that price. Priceline currently holds several patents on demand collection technology and has expanded to offer customers a chance to bid... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. In a Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP, including the rise of patent pools. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Gibson Hits a High Note
patented computer chip in the instrument detects and processes the sound, sending it to a digital amplifier. To purists who protest, Juszkiewicz stands firm: “The electronics of the guitar are actually pretty bad by today’s standards.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
natural course of things is often upended by someone saying, ‘This is what I really need right now,’” says Mahesh. “That tends to change the priorities of your plan and development cycle.” Knock out!, an NVC winner in 2012, brought View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
word — to grill them about their tastes, buying habits, and favorite brands — [Zaltman] seeks to converse directly with their brains instead,” the Times observed (February 23, 2002). The Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), the first View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
opportunity costs that a person might encounter in launching a venture. And the news is even grimmer for teams of academics: The more founders on the team with a PhD or postdoc training, “the lower the likelihood of survival and the smaller the number of View Details