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- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
Periodical:North Carolina Law Review 84 (May 2006). We use the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory to explore how changes in the nature of the relationship between law View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- July 2024
- Article
Buying the Verdict
By: Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun
We document evidence that firms systematically increase specialized, locally targeted advertising following the firm being taken to trial in that given location, precisely following initiation of the suit. In particular, we use legal actions brought against publicly...
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Cohen, Lauren, and Umit Gurun. "Buying the Verdict." Management Science 70, no. 7 (July 2024): 4167–4183.
- March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform
By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer faced a decision about how to stop wrongdoing committed by major Wall Street firms during the Internet boom. The equities analysts of Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms were charged with objectively advising retail...
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Crime and Corruption;
Decisions;
Financial Institutions;
Stocks;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Laws and Statutes;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Conflict of Interests;
Internet;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform." Harvard Business School Case 708-019, March 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- May 2023
- Article
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek
to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting
and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received...
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Pay Transparency;
Online Labor Market;
Privacy;
Wage Gap;
Corporate Disclosure;
Wages;
Negotiation
Cullen, Zoë B., and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson. "Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency." Econometrica 91, no. 3 (May 2023): 765–802. (Lead Article.)
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Professor Karim Lakhani discusses how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
The Efficiency of Patent Litigation
By: Samuel Antill, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian and Toni M. Whited
How efficient is the U.S. patent litigation system? We quantify the extent to which the litigation system shapes innovation using a novel dynamic model, in which heterogeneous firms innovate and face potential patent lawsuits. We show that the impact of a litigation...
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Innovation and Invention;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Growth and Development;
Welfare;
Patents
Antill, Samuel, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian, and Toni M. Whited. "The Efficiency of Patent Litigation." Working Paper, May 2024.
- September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
An Innovative Anti-bribery Commitment?
By: Eugene Soltes
Reebonz, an online luxury goods platform based in Singapore that operates across the Asia-Pacific region, offers its investors the opportunity to redeem shares if either the firm or its founder are investigated by the U.S. or U.K governments with regard to complying...
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act;
United Kingdom Bribery Act;
Law;
Leadership;
Moral Sensibility;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
United Kingdom;
Asia
Soltes, Eugene. "An Innovative Anti-bribery Commitment?" Harvard Business School Case 119-039, September 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
against the backdrop of a turbulent industry and consider the implications for the anesthesiologist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55974 March 2019 Management Science Open Source Software and Firm...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
with higher salaries. But new research indicates that although many tech firms do tend to favor employing younger workers, older native workers are not losing their jobs as a direct result of the immigrants being hired. "We don't find...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
Enke Bashllari is a neuroscientist and venture investor. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Arkitekt Ventures, an early stage Health + Bio investment firm with the mission to improve and advance human health. Recognized by the...
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- October 1995
- Article
Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects
By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao
We examine the incentive problem confronting a firm and employee when the employee privately discovers a significant invention and faces a choice between keeping the invention private and leaving the firm to form a new company (start-up), or transferring knowledge and...
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Business Startups;
Projects;
Motivation and Incentives;
Rights;
Employees;
Innovation and Invention;
Compensation and Benefits;
Knowledge Sharing;
Capital;
Profit
Anton, James J., and Dennis Yao. "Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 11, no. 2 (October 1995): 362–378. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which...
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by Ann Cullen
- 2015
- Working Paper
Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Westkamp
We consider the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts, where firms may
demand multiple contracts but each worker desires at most one contract. We introduce
three novel conditions—observable substitutability, observable size monotonicity,...
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Keywords:
Matching With Contracts;
Stability;
Strategy-proofness;
Substitutability;
Size Monotonicity;
Cumulative Offer Mechanism;
Contracts;
Market Design;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp. "Stability, Strategy-Proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms." Working Paper, July 2015.
- Article
Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members
By: Suraj Srinivasan
I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange...
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Outcome or Result;
Business Earnings;
Financial Statements;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Labor;
Markets;
Financial Reporting;
Accounting Audits;
Cost;
Reputation
Srinivasan, Suraj. "Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members." Journal of Accounting Research 43, no. 2 (May 2005): 291–334.
- March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction
By: Dwight B. Crane
Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to...
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Debt Securities;
Managerial Roles;
Ethics;
Market Transactions;
Bonds;
Investment Banking;
Crisis Management;
Auctions;
Legal Liability;
Banking Industry
Crane, Dwight B. "Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction." Harvard Business School Case 292-114, March 1992. (Revised December 1992.)
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
used trust to support this organizational structure. The firm built a network of trustworthy individuals and business partners that enabled it, eventually, to separate the German parent company from its international affiliates. In...
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- August 2011
- Article
Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Does Voluntary Self-Reporting Indicate Effective Self-Policing
By: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short
Regulatory agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an investigative tool and to encourage regulated firms to commit to policing themselves. We investigate whether voluntary self-reporting can reliably indicate effective...
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Environmental Sustainability;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Programs;
Governance Compliance;
Corporate Disclosure;
Law Enforcement
Toffel, Michael W., and Jodi L. Short. "Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Does Voluntary Self-Reporting Indicate Effective Self-Policing." Journal of Law & Economics 54, no. 3 (August 2011): 609–649.
- 2012
- Working Paper
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details
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Business and Shareholder Relations;
Public Ownership;
Performance Expectations;
Economy;
Crime and Corruption;
Ethics;
Trust;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-094, April 2012.
- January 2015
- Article
Competing with Privacy
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information...
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Keywords:
Information Acquisition;
Information Disclosure;
Online Privacy;
Privacy Regulation;
Information;
Rights;
Internet and the Web;
Competition;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Disclosure;
Ethics;
Knowledge Acquisition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Competing with Privacy." Management Science 61, no. 1 (January 2015): 229–246.
- February 2003 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Arthur Andersen LLP
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
This case highlights the history of Arthur Andersen and the collapse of the firm following the Enron Corp. audit and the Department of Justice obstruction of justice conviction.
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Keywords:
Accounting Audits;
Financial Statements;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Lawfulness;
United States
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "Arthur Andersen LLP." Harvard Business School Case 103-061, February 2003. (Revised June 2006.)