Publications

February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Fannie Mae: Public or Private?

By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Institutions; Mortgages; Government and Politics; Business History; Privatization; Private Sector; Laws and Statutes; United States

October 2009
Journal Article

Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer

By: Oriol Carbonell and Diego A. Comin

This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to renegotiate their agreement. We study optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Research; Sports Industry; Spain

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01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

and geopolitical change and uncertainty; compete on a global scale; and operate in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth by Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren... View Details

January 2001
Background Note

Responsibilities & Rights of Family Shareholders of a Family Business

By: John A. Davis

Describes the major responsibilities and rights of family shareholders of a family owned business. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Rights; Business and Shareholder Relations

29 Jan 2010
News

Back to Glass-Steagall?

or private equity funds and from engaging in proprietary trading. The ban has been dubbed the Volcker Rule, in recognition of the former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who has championed the proposal. The administration says... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Government

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

names; however, much less attention is paid to where the cadaver came from. A. Tensions Around the Supply and Demand of Cadavers Supplying human cadavers is left to the responsibility of others, most notably the anatomy course instructors... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new labor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

Publications The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability Authors: Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton Publication: Chap. 4 in Retail Supply Chain Management, edited by Narendra Agarwal and Stephen A. Smith. International Series in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

Kaplan says. Working with Kaplan were Phillip Tseng, Duke University School of Medicine; Barak D. Richman, Duke Law School and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Mahek A. Shah, Institute for... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Apr 2000
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

magna cum laude, JD '76 cum laude. U.S. District Court Judge. Boston, MA. Steven A. Schroeder, MD '64 cum laude; BA '60, Stanford University. President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Princeton, NJ. Anne M. Sweeney, Ed.M. '80; AB... View Details

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

Citigroup, PepsiCo, Credit Suisse, RBC, Vineyard Vines, and IHOP, through grants like the $15 million they received from the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation, and through partnerships with Veterans Affairs, Children of Fallen... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

March 2001 (Revised April 2002)
Case

Ginzel et al v. Kolcraft Enterprises et al (A)

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Examines the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of an infant who died after a portable crib collapsed. The manufacturer, Kolcraft, licensed the Playskool brand name from the co-defendant, Hasbro Industries. Raises difficult questions about what the two... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Product; Negotiation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; United States

December 2017
Supplement

Piracy in Somalia (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Piracy; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Somalia

December 2020
Supplement

France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans

In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December... View Details

April 2000 (Revised June 2001)
Case

DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)

By: John A. Deighton

By acquiring Abacus, DoubleClick won the power to serve ads with unprecedented precision, because it brought together Web surfers' online and offline identities. Several competitors had developed advanced systems for serving ads on the web, but DoubleClick had the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Competitive Advantage; Social Issues; Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry

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Article

Weak Property Rights and Hold-up in R&D

By: B. Anand and A. Galetovic

Keywords: Rights; Research and Development