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13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Feb 2000
News

William Jones: Builder with a Mission

At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses left for the suburbs, View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

March 2012 (Revised October 2013)
Supplement

Gene Patents (B)

By: Richard Hamermesh and Phillip Andrews

The case updates events since the Court's ruling against Myriad Genetics on March 29, 2010 and should be used in conjunction with Gene Patents (A). On July 29, 2011, a US Appeals Court reversed the prior ruling against Myriad. On September 16, 2011, the first major... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Patents; Genetics; Judgments; Investment; Biotechnology Industry; United States

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January 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Capital Field: A Room with a View

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Joshua Wyatt

Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a company formed by U.S.-educated Polish natives involved in real... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Emerging Markets; State Ownership; Privatization; Property; Real Estate Industry; Poland

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KINDS OF CONTENT (“PROHIBITED CONTENT”) ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED ON THE SERVICES: Content that defames, harasses, discriminates against, harms or threatens others; Content that discusses illegal activities, with the intent to commit them; Content that infringes or... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading in business and in public education

a movie theater company, Loews now has interests in several industries, including commercial property and casualty insurance, hotels, energy exploration, and natural gas and liquids storage and transportation. Tisch was charged with... View Details

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

The House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement met recently to hash out concerns related to the H-1B program, one of the most controversial of foreign visa topics in the United States. At issue was a stubborn question that politicians, corporations,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

Teaching Interest

Overview

Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an... View Details

October 2008 (Revised January 2015)
Teaching Note

Polanco: A Fashionable Opportunity

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo

Teaching Note for [209012]. View Details

Keywords: Investment; Planning; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Design; Property; Opportunities; Legal Liability; Real Estate Industry; Mexico

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2009
Working Paper

Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento

We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives

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23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

from Innovation and the Intellectual Property Revolution Author:Gary Pisano Periodical:Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the publication of David Teece's article, "Profiting from Innovation" Research Policy 35, no. 8... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

this intellectual property are probably the biggest obstacle standing in the way. Unless companies can be convinced their intellectual property security concerns can be satisfied, this idea won’t fly. —Neil... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Faculty Books

leaders, they argue, acknowledge the first three perils but are crafting unduly soft policies to deal with them. America requires a new security concept, “strategic indepen-dence,” to keep the peace in dangerous times and to foster new leaders. Making Foreign... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership | Information Technology

the Multimedia Team to create a case study that captured the devastation of what came to be known as 26/11. The coordinated assault on Mumbai, like that on targets in the U.S. on 9/11, sought to incite fear and confusion by exacting a staggering death toll, destroying... View Details

May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Westfield America

By: William J. Poorvu, Richard S. Tedlow and Daniel J. Rudd

The company is attempting to duplicate its Australian formula for successful mall ownership in the U.S. market. It must deal with rapidly evolving financial markets while recognizing and capitalizing on emerging trends in retailing. View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Adaptation; Financial Markets; Property; Trends; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Australia; United States

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May 1995
Teaching Note

C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (A) TN

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note for (9-894-017). View Details

Keywords: Patents; Decisions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competition; Chemical Industry

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Site Credits - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Photography Boston Photo Inc. Imaging Services Harvard College Library Printing Ram Printing Inc. Lenders to the Exhibition Boston Public Library The George F. Baker Trust Harvard University Archives Harvard University Property... View Details

January 2019 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate

By: Marco Di Maggio and Sarah Gulick

In November 2018, Shaival Shah, the founder and CEO of Ribbon Home had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such... View Details

Keywords: Consumers; Real Estate; Property; Finance; Digital Platforms; Business Model; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry

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May 2017
Case

Cambridge Franchise Partners

By: Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Two partners commence a rollup in the quick-service restaurant segment. They focus on operating improvements and spinning-off real estate. View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Operations; Performance Improvement; Property; Management

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2014
Article

Are Patents Creative or Destructive?

By: Tom Nicholas

Current debate over patent aggregation has led to renewed interest in the long-standing question concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Incentives; Patents; Technological Innovation; Motivation and Incentives

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