Intellectual property

Innovation deserves protection.

Chief Security Officers have some tough choices to make.

Today’s most successful companies are rethinking traditional notions of ownership.

DRM doesn't protect content creators, and consumers hate it.

They restrict employee mobility.

The hope that an entrepreneurial industry can help reverse global warming misses one critical point: Innovation takes time. Lots of time.

Should companies control all the ways people experience art?

Most companies view handing intellectual property to an outsourcer as delivering the castle keys to marauders. Outsourcers need access to customer names, automated business processes, and their clients’ homegrown software to do their jobs. But unscrupulous contractors can also do a job on clients. Businesses such as Apple Computer and Pearl Investments, a Portland, Maine–based […]

The United States built the world’s most powerful economy by producing and attracting human capital. Is America throwing that advantage away?

The real work in most companies is done informally, through personal contacts. How can executives manage such amorphous networks? Start by focusing on those employees who play four critical linking roles.

For generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the...

Make yourself a harder target.

Strategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law.

Corporations that talk tough about cracking down on intellectual property theft need to look closely at their own organizations.

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models - particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human...

Reprint: R0309E Despite companies' almost fanatical worship of innovation, most new products don't generate money. That's because executives don't realize...

The music industry, described in breezy prose in John Alderman's Sonic Boom: MP3, Napster, and the New Pioneers of Music, is coming under intense pressure...

Open innovation platforms are making it easier.

More companies are learning to exploit patents as potent competitive weapons and as a source of unexpected revenues. Think clustering, bracketing, and mapping.

Unemployment postrecession remains stubbornly high, yet states throughout the U.S. have been requiring that an ever increasing fraction of workers be licensed before they can offer their services or open a business—about 30% today, up from just 10% in 1970, according to thorough studies by the University of Minnesota professor Morris Kleiner. And the problem […]

This explores the valuation of an opportunity to license a compound before it enters clinical trials. Describes Merck's decision tree evaluation process...

Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur...

Two-team, six-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two corporations setting up a simultaneous high-tech joint venture and purchasing...

This case explores the accounting treatment of revenue recognition for a biopharmaceutical company in the life sciences sector, HUTCHMED (China) Limited...

Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest...

Roger is an ambitious entrepreneur capitalizing on advances in AI to revolutionize the marketing industry. Roger and his co-founders manage to make many...

Describes advantages and disadvantages of alliances (including joint ventures and licensing agreements).

Two-team, six-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two corporations setting up a simultaneous high-tech joint venture and purchasing...

This 2014 case describes how the Los Angeles-based Magnolia Community Initiative (MCI) - a network of 70 government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations...

Abbott Labs has reached an impasse with the Brazilian government in negotiations over the pricing of a new anti-AIDS drug, Kaletra. The Brazilian government...

Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency...

Two-team, six-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two corporations setting up a simultaneous high-tech joint venture and purchasing...

The management team of Marvel Enterprises, known for its universe of superhero characters that includes Spider-Man, the Hulk, and X-Men, must reevaluate...

The Caesan Cheese Cooperative is considering introducing a new high-quality, high-margin artisan whiskey cheddar cheese. Deidra Kelly, vice president...

"Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics" explores the challenges associated with growing a start-up around a brand new technology. In October 2012, Eric...

The case documents how Naresh Goyal, chairman of Jet Airways (India) Limited founded the airline and related business group, and built the 'Jet Airways'...

Well-codified interfaces have enabled horizontal specialization in the global semiconductor industry. This Technical Note describes the modern integrated...

Laura Chavez was delighted beyond words when the Atelier Asymmetric Bow suite, designed by her luxury jewellery company Lark & Berry, won the 2019 Goldsmiths'...

Examines the history of Iridium Communications, a provider of mobile satellite services. Discusses the genesis of Iridium's technical design, then follows...

Innovation deserves protection.

This explores the valuation of an opportunity to license a compound before it enters clinical trials. Describes Merck's decision tree evaluation process...

Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur...

Two-team, six-party, four-issue negotiation between representatives of two corporations setting up a simultaneous high-tech joint venture and purchasing...

This case explores the accounting treatment of revenue recognition for a biopharmaceutical company in the life sciences sector, HUTCHMED (China) Limited...

Chief Security Officers have some tough choices to make.

Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest...

Roger is an ambitious entrepreneur capitalizing on advances in AI to revolutionize the marketing industry. Roger and his co-founders manage to make many...

Describes advantages and disadvantages of alliances (including joint ventures and licensing agreements).

Today’s most successful companies are rethinking traditional notions of ownership.