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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
vehicles from Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM, KeySpan, and Solectria. Speakers included Segway inventor Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982), state and federal officials, scientists, and entrepreneurs. “We hope to foster economically viable alternatives to...
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John Bracaglia
technology," says John. Keynote speakers included David Ferrucci, the lead inventor behind IBM Watson, and Max Tegmark, an M.I.T. professor of physics and founder of the Future of Life Institute, an organization that, John says,...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
Economic Journal Global Collaborative Patents By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’04) (Crown Business) The authors talked with 21 extraordinary leaders — people like Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72) and Pete Peterson, founders of the Blackstone Group, HBS professor Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic, and inventor...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less...
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by Ann Cullen
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
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...
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Springfield MA Gas Machines Gilbert & Barker Proprietors George Helfrich Boston MA Glass Cutter Patented inventor (Two cards) Frank Beaurow Boston MA Glass China Cheapest place in Boston Cristaleria Compania de Boston y Sandwich Boston MA...
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- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
iStock What do these people have in common? The daughter of former slaves, pioneers in the private space race, and oddball inventors who created the green business industry. They all overcame long odds to become great American...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
the company completed the largest-ever crowdsourcing campaign for an augmented reality product, raising $1.7 million, and followed it with a $7.5 million Series A in summer 2020. The technology was conceived by inventor Jeri Ellsworth in...
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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
inventions). Various factors can affect a company's inventive output, including the presence of inventors who work alone, the type of collaboration among those inventors who work in teams, the amount of team...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner Prizes are increasingly dangled in front of View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
still the world's currency of choice. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Publication:In Economics of Agglomeration, edited by Edward Glaeser. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. (Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign to them. Eventually, Rock found Sherman Fairchild, an View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential. Harvard's i-lab serves as the hub, providing fellows with space and the opportunity to join an entrepreneurial...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the...
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- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
Petra Moser and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine whether prizes encourage innovation and, if so, how. We compare changes in U.S. patents per year for technology areas where U.S. inventors won prizes for exceptional innovations at the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
is enough interest to go further? Which is the better strategy for young innovators? What are the pros and cons of each? Can the risks be measured and mitigated? “The pitch or spec dilemma touches any independent inventor looking to sell...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workers or inventors or Nobel—they’re all going to point in a similar direction, and it’s really going to be more of a matter of degree. How strong is the effect that we’re talking about that does that? I have one kind of funny, I...
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- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant View Details