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May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
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Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky

Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the future of her nascent company. As sales of Clocky show signs of declining, she must decide whether to... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management; Electronics Industry

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25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2025
Working Paper

Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations, Inventor-Founders, and Performance

By: Justine Boudou and Maria Roche

In this paper, we examine how a startup’s knowledge foundations—embedded in its core technology—influence its performance in the exit market. Using a dataset of 1,006 biomedicine startups founded between 2005 and 2015, we focus on two key factors: (1) the degree of... View Details

Keywords: Firm Performance; Knowledge Foundations; Exits; Academic Startups; Inventor-founder; Specialized Scientific Knowledge; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Research; Information Publishing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship

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05 Sep 2023
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Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

results. “An intelligent failure is an undesired result in new territory,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. “There’s no way you can know for sure whether it will work out without trying it.” Edmondson points to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

in press Academy of Management Annals Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures By: DeSantola, Alicia, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in the management of internal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Patent terminology: Inventor, Applicant, and Assignee

organization employing the inventor of the technology. An assignee can also change at a later date. Applicant: Organization or individual that files the patent application is called the “applicant.”... View Details

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Patent terminology: Provisional vs nonprovisional

provisional patent application, on the other hand, does not get reviewed. It is a quick and inexpensive way for inventors to establish a US filing date for their invention, which can be claimed in a later-filed nonprovisional... View Details

Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Economics article Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors More Productive? "Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality." “It’s amazing how robust the results are. Commuting hurts both innovative quantity and quality,”... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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By: Andy Wu

How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

11 Mar 2014
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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury; Technology

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a child, “Bezos had dreams of becoming an inventor like Thomas... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

Faculty & Research - Health Care

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Led by Peter Barrett and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with... View Details

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

the top of his list of leaders who imparted the wrong lessons are Milton Friedman, who believed companies should prioritize their stock prices, and Bob McNamara, the inventor of top-down management, who measured his way to success with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

Business History - Faculty & Research

quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Article The Way to Wealth Around the World: Benjamin Franklin and the Globalization of American... View Details

For Alumni - Health Care

like to get involved healthcare_initiative@hbs.edu Apply to be a Blavatnik Fellow The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship provides a select group of Harvard Business School MBA alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard View Details

Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

leaders. Students have the unique opportunity to meet other graduate students from across the country, and win prizes up to $10,000. Lemelson-MIT Student Prize The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize honors promising collegiate inventors around... View Details

14 Jul 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

authored multiple high-impact publications and is the inventor of several patents leveraging the use of biomaterials for drug delivery and diagnosis. During her fellowship, Núria will serve as a founding scientific member to translate... View Details

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Barbara Larson. Our Work-From-Anywhere Future , Harvard Business Review, 2020. Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere? , Harvard Business Review, 2019. With Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi. The Ethnic Migrant Inventor... View Details

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

whenever they knew the address of each patent’s inventor and used cutting-edge empirical methods to determine causality. In addition to the 1.4 percent uptick in patents, the authors found that new applications cited other patents 3.4... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation