Intellectual Property Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

for communities of color to thrive in a global market. So before you question the legitimacy of a protest that involves the destruction of property (ignoring the fact that much of ‘vandalism’ being done is by white supremacist saboteurs),... View Details

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

emergency phase, 230 trained miners from FIBA's lignite mining subsidiary, Polyak, spent 10 days searching under the rubble and rescuing 30 people. FIBA CP, the Group's commercial property management subsidiary's shopping malls, as well... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

the World Bank gave committed officials the political opportunity to experiment with new programs in underperforming regions, which they progressively extended across the country. These incremental reforms supplied the institutional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

the income taxes paid by residents with good jobs, from the tolls paid by drivers, from property and sales taxes. Without revenue, costs can't be covered. Can cities with high liabilities expect to be bailed out and propped up without... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

put luggage on wheels and they changed the nature of how people travel. Now I drag it around. Those were two things that existed, right? It wasn't a new technology. It wasn't some new intellectual property... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

The online group launched along with the physical space in July 2014, just nine months after the Local Motors and GE partnership began on paper. In addition to any potential royalties or lump sum prizes for winning design challenges, community members get to keep the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than creating an View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

and events through the eyes of the men and women watching them in real time: to follow the arc of time, if you will. And this represented an exciting intellectual opportunity for me, as a historian and scholar of entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

July 2024
Case

Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding

By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn

This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details

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21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

possess some nice theoretical properties, such as the optimization of social surplus and having dominant strategies. These properties may not be satisfied by current position auctions and their variants. We therefore concentrate on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

introduce the concept of expertise dissensus, a team property that reflects the variance in team members' perceptions of one another's levels of expertise. We argue that it matters how team members perceive all others' expertise-not just... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

EBS Property Investments in Atlanta. “There was no money for it, there was no vision. So it was really, truly a startup operation, which Jim is very good at directing. He has the tenacity and doesn’t mind coming up with a plan and asking... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Institutions , Conference Series #21. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 1979. Merton, Robert C. "Capital Theory and the Pricing of Financial Securities." In Handbook of Monetary Economics , vol. 1, edited by Benjamin F. Friedman and... View Details

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

with families and responsibilities." Looking back, she says she's grateful for the ministry's supportive culture. "We were all focused and intellectually driven to address the areas that were our responsibility," she recalls, "but... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

when it could mean the end of his business as he knows it. “One of the biggest challenges is these institutional changes,” he says. “It’s going to take time.” Some days, the time required to create real change wears on Mawilmada. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the managerial and View Details