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- May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
DVD War
By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and computer industries. The development of high-definition (HD) technology created a need for a format with greater storage capacity. Instead of agreeing on a single standard for a new HD disc,...
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Keywords:
Disruption;
Entertainment;
Business History;
Intellectual Property;
Product;
Competition;
Technology Adoption;
Electronics Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Michael Slind. "DVD War." Harvard Business School Case 706-504, May 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
New war on drugs: Pharma becoming 'uninvestable'?
- October 2023
- Teaching Note
Metaverse Wars
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-431. Metaverse Wars recaps the development of the metaverse concept and the attendant hype, bringing the narrative up to the summer of 2023 when Meta’s big pivot looked more like a costly misstep than a stroke of strategic genius. In...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation
By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to...
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Keywords:
World War II;
Vannevar Bush;
OSRD;
Mission-oriented R&D;
Direction Of Innovation;
Geography Of Innovation;
Technology Clusters;
U.S. Innovation System;
Innovation and Invention;
Research and Development;
Problems and Challenges;
War;
History;
Government Administration;
United States
Gross, Daniel P., and Bhaven N. Sampat. "Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-126, June 2020.
- 10 Dec 2012
- News
Browser Wars Flare Again, on Little Screens
- June 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Judah Folkman and the War on Cancer
Judah Folkman, professor in the Division of Vascular Biology at Children's Hospital in Boston, is considering how best to advance the research in his lab in an era where biomedical research has gotten more interdisciplinary and collaborative. Specifically, Folkman has...
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Keywords:
Conflict of Interests;
Leadership;
Research;
Personal Development and Career;
Health Care and Treatment;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Boston
West, Jonathan, Ambuj Sagar, and Mona Ashiya. "Judah Folkman and the War on Cancer." Harvard Business School Case 604-091, June 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Metaverse Wars
By: Andy Wu, David B. Yoffie and Matt Higgins
In 2023, the term metaverse — a combination of “meta” and “universe” — had become a catch-all for a diverse set of expectations about online virtual worlds and the future of the internet. To some, the metaverse conjured images of a massive participatory videogame...
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Keywords:
Metaverse;
Technology;
Virtual Reality;
Facebook;
Social Media;
Technological Innovation;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption
Wu, Andy, David B. Yoffie, and Matt Higgins. "Metaverse Wars." Harvard Business School Case 723-431, March 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
- January 2002 (Revised April 2015)
- Background Note
A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation
By: Michael Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Military metaphors are commonplace in business writing about strategy, but they are rarely used in the negotiation literature. This case takes the Marine Corps philosophy of warfighting and compares it with the tactics and techniques of effective negotiators. Some of...
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Wheeler, Michael, and Gillian Morris. "A Note on Maneuvering in War and Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-157, January 2002. (Revised April 2015.)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
and I had thrived on freedom. However, after 18 years on the corporate ladder in London, I could hardly even imagine that way of being anymore. I knew I needed a break, so I put my life View Details
- 06 Apr 2018
- News
Trade War or a War of Words?
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- Teaching Interest
War & Peace
By: Kevin P. Mohan
Lessons from history on leadership, strategy, and negotiation.
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The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry
We investigate the effect of patent wars on firm strategy using data from the global smartphone market. In particular, we analyze how smartphone vendors not involved in patent litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find... View Details
- 10 Mar 2022
- Video
Ask Me Anything: Expert Panel on the War in Ukraine
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II
By: Daniel P. Gross
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign...
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Keywords:
Invention Secrecy;
Invention Disclosure;
Trade Secrecy;
Secrecy Orders;
Cummulative Innovation;
Wold War 2;
Patents;
National Security;
History;
Innovation and Invention;
Outcome or Result;
Intellectual Property;
Policy;
Commercialization;
United States
Gross, Daniel P. "The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-090, May 2019. (Revised May 2019. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25545, May 2019)
- 07 Jun 2009
- News
Cash in on the war between inflation and deflation
- 05 Jan 2013
- News
On Google, F.T.C. Set Rules of War Over Patents
- 12 Jan 2020
- News
Trade War With China Took Toll on U.S., but Not Big One
- Web
Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership | Information Technology
Featured Case Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the city of Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay). View Details