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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
late 1940s is unraveling, and Murphy thinks the American foreign policy and defense establishment is directly culpable for what has happened. MetaWars: The Freedom Frontier by Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) (Orchard Books) The final book of the...
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- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
rewards programs as a defense mechanism. They just try to copy what the competition is doing. If that is all that you do, then you are not clear in your own mind about what can be done with the help of these programs. Unless you have...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
blink if Lockheed Martin, Boeing, or other large defense companies proposed a $60 million effort to do the same, but would it make Shield AI, barely two years past founding, look arrogant, ignorant, or both? Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of anthropology to study transformation as it takes place through shared...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
the early technical challenges associated with napalm were solved by experimentation under the guidance of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), created to coordinate scientific research into the problems of modern warfare....
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
were incarcerated in and around New Orleans without representation and with all official records destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Professor Sullivan designed an indigent defense delivery system that resulted in the release of nearly all...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Forces. He had at his disposal a large part of the $600-plus billion Department of Defense budget and some of the most inventive people at DARPA, the DoD’s research arm, and other places. And yet he still began a startup outside the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
outlining the situation to the team. His email generated a negative backlash and chain of defensive emails from involved staff who felt criticized. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608171...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against 24/7 Work Culture By: Padavic, Irene, R. Ely, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict between women’s family obligations and professional...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
General Motors a distant fourth. Most influential company/organization Microsoft IBM General Electric Among dozens of other organizations cited, many picked the "U.S. government" or branches of it (the IRS, Defense Department), along with...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences of policies that...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited from increased public sector outsourcing. In 2012, for the UK's Ministry of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
president - McKinsey & Company's Marvin Bower (MBA '30) reported on the effort to "streamline Bulletin make-up and typography." Content of the quarterly magazine was dominated by the School's involvement in wartime training courses, essays on the role of business in...
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Deborah Blagg
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: In terms of building the business, they expanded and gave everyone free access. What people didn't know is that was in exchange for profiling the information. Now, in his defense, Mark wrote a defense recently in the Wall Street...
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Re: Benson P. Shapiro
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
about and acknowledging his own contributions to organizational underperformance or other work problems is critical to getting employees to improve and generating positive business results. He notes his approach reduced his employees' View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether...
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Sean Silverthorne