Psychology And Law - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

early 20th Century from training for the law at Harvard by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty. And in other forms, it serves the medical and other... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

are relevant in moral psychology and have public policy implications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-079.pdf Dishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology

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August 2001 (Revised June 2002)
Case

IBM Software Solutions (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Robert Chapman Wood

Executives and managers of key IBM software units struggle to make IBM a top player in the post-mainframe era. When one software unit introduces a visionary product with potential to create a new leadership position for the firm, the result is an epic conflict in the... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry

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26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Publication:Harvard Law Review 120, no. 5 (March 2007) No abstract is available at this time. Read the article: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/120/march07/subramanian.pdf Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 19, 2021
Article

Do Most Family Businesses Really Fail by the Third Generation?

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer

Perhaps the most commonly-cited statistic about family businesses is their failure rates. Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t survive beyond three generations. But that... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Success; Perception

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Book

Environmental Dispute Resolution

By: Lawrence Bacow and Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution

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April 2005 (Revised August 2012)
Supplement

MedCath Corporation (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Louisa Neissa

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Conflict and Resolution; Horizontal Integration; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

pick up passengers with disabilities. “Suddenly entrepreneurship is not about who can build a better mousetrap, but who can better ignore the law and develop a corporate advantage for ignoring the law”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2014
Teaching Note

Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals

By: Lucy White

Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake

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January 2009 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical (Abridged)

By: Lucy White

Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake

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25 Aug 2014
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

and had a son, Ryan, while both remained in college. When the young family moved to Boston, Marcelo deferred her admission to Harvard Law School in order to gain litigation experience. “That gave me exposure... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

1990
Chapter

Institutional Incentives for Protection: The American Use of Voluntary Export Restraints

By: J. J. Coleman and D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Trade; Motivation and Incentives; United States

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07 Aug 2012
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Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

within the FBI and archival analysis of Congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, we trace how top management shifted the design and identity of the FBI from those of a law... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

PublicationsMeeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer Publication:Industrial and Organizational Psychology:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

Congressional August 2018 recess, a federal bill is unlikely and therefore a hodgepodge of state bills, like California’s CCPA, will come into effect in 2020. Beyond privacy and content, a range of calls... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel