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- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
property to survive "in print" or in circulation. It is a world of non-zero-sum thinking. This is in stark contrast to many of the rest of us who actually read newspapers, watch television, go to the movies, and use the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
storm government buildings protesting minor inconveniences and now I watch as Black Americans are peppered with rubber bullets and tear gas for marching for their lives in the midst of a deadly pandemic. 5. I am angry that so many of you can show such concern for the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
had become a significant part of the offerings at properties in Las Vegas. At the same time, as an avid sailor on Lake Michigan, I noticed that the city's massive boating community had no destinations once they left the harbor. From... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
old Chinese saying: ‘If the water is too clear, there will be no fish.’ We have to change that mindset,” he explained. Protection of intellectual property also poses a major challenge and is one area where China “overcommitted” in the WTO... View Details
- July 2013
- Article
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
Foley, C. Fritz, and William R. Kerr. "Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity." Management Science 59, no. 7 (July 2013): 1529–1544.
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details
- August 2008
- Article
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion
By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
- Web
Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
policy issues associated with climate change. Highlights Property Rights in Fisheries Positive Feedback Loops Club Goods and Common Goods Show Hide Details Concepts Course Introduction The Science of Climate Change The Economics and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
on them. Is in very comfortable circumstances & increasing his property daily.” Six additional reports tell more of the same: “is rich & good.” Then, in 1865, a few months after the end of the Civil War, a much briefer verdict: “Out of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs
By: George Serafeim, Lena Duchene and Carlota Moniz
By August 2023, Re-Match, an artificial turf waste-to-value company, had operations in Denmark and the Netherlands and had recycled over 160,000 tons of waste and plastic fiber. With recent capital injection from the VC firm Verdane and a dual revenue business model,... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Abatement; Sustainability; Recycling; Waste Management; Technology; Entrepreneurial Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Energy Conservation; Investment Return; Profit; Technological Innovation; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Sports; Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Sports Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; France; United States; Pennsylvania; Europe
Serafeim, George, Lena Duchene, and Carlota Moniz. "Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs." Harvard Business School Case 124-032, October 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
was considering whether to buy natural gas properties from Dominion Resources. The question is whether the acquisition fits the corporate strategy. In exploring the questions, students will have the chance to consider what is in fact a... 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
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
concern over piracy has been blown out of proportion." Still, Sviokla sees major challenges ahead for record labels. "They had better get busy understanding how they're going to police their intellectual property rights in a digital... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
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 how they view the most expert team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
as in two-sided assignment problems, the payoffs of a matching can be divided between the agents. We take a similar approach to one-sided assignment problems as Sasaki (1995) for two-sided assignment problems, and we analyze various desirable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
model). This model is used currently by a few of the smaller raters, but it has two main drawbacks. First, it relies heavily on the ability to enforce property rights to information that is very easy to spread. Second, it precludes wide... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
novel proposals. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184791 IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Henkel, Joachim, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel