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- 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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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)
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, the largely Jewish owned and managed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former...
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Martha Lagace
- December 2023
- Case
Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Wars (B)
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
By 2023, the global market for cloud infrastructure had consolidated into a three-horse race. As of Q4 2022, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google collectively accounted for 66% of the global market. AWS had a market share of 33%, Microsoft Azure had 23%, and Google Cloud had...
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- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold...
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- 08 Dec 2022
- HBS Case
The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?
time you don’t know if you will be making things worse or not.” As the war grinds on, and Ukraine’s key military gains are offset by Russia’s surprising ability to buffer its citizens from sweeping international, political, and corporate...
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- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
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Publications - Faculty & Research
invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000... View Details Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Natural...
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Capstone - MBA
that will advance new drug discoveries and therapeutics with those equally passionate about changing the business of healthcare for the better. 2 The practicalities of business decisions meet the practicalities of hard science. Students...
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
future, the adventure that awaits you in the process, personal stories that didn’t make it into the book, and more. 2023 Spring Reunions—June 1-4, 2023 On June 2 and 3, 2023, HBS faculty addressed a range of issues facing business and...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Inflation Introduction to the Macroeconomic View Middle-Income Countries ShowHide Details Concepts The World Is Big Case: Unidentified Countries Beyond a Country's Borders Featured Exercises Unidentified Countries Exercise (Measuring and Interpreting Economic...
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
that began in 2014 and escalated into full-scale war in February 2022. Before the full-scale invasion, HarvEast managed 127,000 hectares (ha) of farmland in Ukraine and generated about $100 million in revenue from three businesses:...
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- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
procedures impedes effective action.” Wars on bureaucracy are waged and often thought to be won in non-governmental organizations. But there's a perception that the war is rarely waged or won in...
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by James L. Heskett
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
experiment is feasible at the same cost. April 2024 Case ChatGPT Enters the Voice Wars 2024 By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen About the Unit The Strategy unit studies firms as competitors in an economic landscape. Key issues...
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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and control, in practice the...
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Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Business School established the Aviation Research Program to develop vital information and guidance that would benefit the industry’s rapidly accelerating war effort. An HBS advisory committee of industry and government representatives...
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Partners - Case Method Project
2 of 5 Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High SchoolHuntsville, AL AL 3 of 5 Marcee Hinds Baker High SchoolMobile, AL AL 4 of 5 Michele Olejnik Huntsville High SchoolHuntsville, AL AL 5 of 5 Mark Tenhundfeld McGill-Toolen Catholic High...
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- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
vulnerability A series of major crises and surprises over the past few years raised concerns of the potential fragility of sprawling supply chains for both companies and governments. The rethinking extends beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and the View Details
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
carrier in 1929. The company changed its name and moved to Atlanta in 1941, just in time to get lucrative World War II contracts that fueled its first expansion. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, where Delta is headquartered, has been the...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Recent Publications HarvEastBy: Jeremy Friedman and Natalie Kindred May 2024 | Case | Faculty Research In late 2023, Dmitry Skornyakov, CEO of Ukrainian agribusiness HarvEast, was navigating the turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that began in 2014 and...
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