Intellectual Property Rights - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the choice of some... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

metrics, so that if people are going to invest in the sector there's some way to measure that return in social terms. It's a tough struggle that a lot of experienced and devoted people are trying to crack right now. Q: There seems to be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

interests. I leverage the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an accountability reporting system is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2008
News

The Levitt Brand

makes a purchasing decision.” Levitt’s influence reached well beyond the classroom. “Ted Levitt was the most influential and imaginative professor in marketing history,” HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch stated on the occasion of his death. “He was an... View Details

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

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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29 Apr 2025
News

Challenge Accepted

the world. How’s this possible? So I went in and they said, well, yes, you haven’t been back in domestic investment banking that long so we felt this was the right decision. I thought, well they’re wrong. And I went to some of my other... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required decision rights over... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents and healing View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction Veteran Hiring Leader’s Handbook by Peter A. Gudmundsson (MBA 1990) (BookBaby) Employers have a chance to get veteran hiring right from the start. This manual illustrates just a few of the... View Details

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

we discern four central criticisms of corporate social responsibility. When companies engage in socially responsible practices, the first concern is that managers will misappropriate corporate resources by diverting them from their View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

UNGPs10+ ‘next decade’ project . She also contributed her expertise to 2021 gender dimensions of business and human rights via the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Her piece in The Conversation, focusing on the intersections of gender,... View Details

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

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the... View Details