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  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

Bazerman Failures of prioritization arise when potential threats are recognized by leaders but not deemed sufficiently serious to warrant immediate attention. Monsanto fell into this trap in late 1999 when CEO Robert Shapiro and his advisers failed to concentrate on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

components from related future technologies for use in their current-technology products. I use patent data to test whether automobile carburetor suppliers with higher levels of future-technology R&D activity are better at adapting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

PublicationsManaging School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership Authors:Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, editors Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

prevailing public health system, while operating under the same revenue structure (per capita payments from the Ministry of Health). A highly visible landmark initiative of the Medical School of the Catholic University, success would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

Publications Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Harvard Business Review Press, in press. (due October 2012) Abstract For years-even decades-in response to intensifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

culminated in a lithium-ion battery so deficient that the entire nascent fleet of 787s had to be grounded shortly after launch. Boeing's scale was epic, but these problems are far from new. Nike, Foxconn, and a host of others have suffered similar View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

  Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

  PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using rainfall, public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

something like that in energy, which is particularly interesting in areas like conservation. Biotech and pharma are more dependent on patents than energy is likely to be; but one of the most important things we learned from looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

  Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

  Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be that if you studied and worked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

change assumes that it can be stopped. If this is not the case, as he suspects, it may encourage the wrong entrepreneurial efforts. In his words, "maybe jumping on this runaway bandwagon is good for short term profits, but is terrible View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

count, patent count, and publication count, as well as their citations and the collaborative nature between funded and unfunded firms. Because randomization of the sample was not feasible, we address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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