Knowledge Use and Leverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

Summer 2013
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Strategic Management of Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach

By: William W. Fisher III and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the value of intellectual property. Functional silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Management; Strategic Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Licensing; Law; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Management; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy

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24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

it's easiest to consider this question: Why do we tax? Different people give different answers, and most of us tend to think of a number of answers ourselves. Economists who study taxation, however, have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We've documented US participation in global value chains over four decades, with... View Details

13 Mar 2023
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What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

Bulletin: When they have a grace period, how do people use that time and capital differently? Rigol: Giving people more time up front allows them to better match the cash flows of their business with their... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

makes the leadership and management of all kinds of change easier. There is a catchy, popular, oft-repeated view that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” This implies a relationship that is not helpful. Culture View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

prison, and then as the head of the very government that tried to crush him. And throughout his career, he used his own sense of humanity to humanize people who tried to... View Details

Keywords: Management

17 Jan 2020
In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

World on Fire. Image: Eoneren Related Reading When Your Passion Works Against You What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities Related reading from the Working View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Jun 2023
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

continue to build a mindset of continuous learning and encourage my teams to learn from both our successes and failures and use that View Details

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

Business School Supplement 611-079 The (C) case provides an update on the B-case decision and describes the introduction of Dan 2.0, an internal social virtual network for the purpose of knowledge sharing in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

book Transitions, by William and Susan Bridges, outlines three stages of transition—the ending, the neutral zone, and the new beginning—and encourages the reader to pause and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

05 Jul 2022
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Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

distribution channel on overall inventory levels and costs. One thing that may have helped generate the HBS offer was an experiment I performed using my own crude version of what would become known as the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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JPMorganChase: Leadership in the Age of GenAI

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane

This case study examines JPMorgan Chase's (JPMC) journey in adopting and implementing Generative AI (GenAI) following the release of ChatGPT. It outlines JPMC's initial cautious approach focused on data security, followed by strategic investments in internal platforms... View Details

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05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

Grocery bills may be ridiculously high these days, but supply chain problems, energy costs, and inflation aren’t the only factors to blame. New research suggests that companies are raising prices simply because they can. In 2021, View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Marketing Curriculum - Faculty & Research

pricing—to satisfy customer needs profitably. Use this knowledge in a brand management simulation. The course culminates in an examination of the evolution of marketing, particularly focusing on... View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Moreover, we use the Global Settlement as an exogenous shock, which limited outside opportunities and therefore exacerbated career concerns, and show that this forecast pattern... View Details

28 Feb 2022
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How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

Discrimination in Customer Service with Foregrounding Interventions.” White customers receive preferential treatment In one of three studies conducted between 2016 and 2020, Feldberg and Kim contacted... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Initiative whose mission is to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender and other forms of equity in business and society through research, education,... View Details

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