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- 19 Feb 2019
- News
Do voter ID laws reduce turnout among black Americans?
- May 2002
- Teaching Note
Venture Law Group (A) & (B), TN
By: Ashish Nanda and Thomas J. DeLong
Teaching Note for (9-800-065) and (9-800-191). View Details
Keywords: Legal Services Industry
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- spring 2001
- Article
Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories
By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–198.
- February 1995
- Article
China, Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth Century China
By: William C. Kirby
Kirby, William C. "China, Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth Century China." Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 1 (February 1995): 43–63. (Reprinted in Capitalism in Asia: Sixty Years of the Journal of Asian Studies, edited by David Ludden, 29-50. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2004.)
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Teaching Note
The Law of One Price (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note to (2-205-079). View Details
Keywords: Price
- September 2022
- Teaching Note
Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law
By: Robin Ely, Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-012. View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
- May 2007 (Revised April 2010)
- Teaching Note
Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm (TN)
By: Boris Groysberg
- 2013
- Working Paper
Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences
By: Jordan Siegel and Yanbo Wang
We study non-U.S. companies that have used reverse mergers as a means to adopt U.S. corporate law (and sometimes U.S. securities law as well). Early adopters of cross-border reverse mergers and those firms that hired a Big Four auditor exhibited superior corporate... View Details
Siegel, Jordan, and Yanbo Wang. "Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-089, April 2012. (Revised December 2012, March 2013, September 2013.)
- Article
On the Optimal Structure of Liability Laws
By: Jerry R. Green
We consider the control of tvo-party accidents through the use of liability rules that assign damages according to whether or not predetermined standards for care have been met. Particular emphasis is given to how the differential in the costs of accident avoidance... View Details
Green, Jerry R. "On the Optimal Structure of Liability Laws." Bell Journal of Economics 7, no. 2 (Fall 1976): 553–574.
- 14 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- November 1999
- Article
Understanding the Code: State Genetic Information Laws
This paper is a comprehensive survey of U.S. state genetic information privacy laws. View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
What’s Law Got to Do with It: A Systems Approach to Management
- 29 Mar 2016
- News
Competing with Platforms That Ignore the Law
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia
By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Effective in eight jurisdictions and banned in four, Fair Workweek Laws (FWL) aim to increase the predictability and stability of work schedules. Among other requirements, these laws penalize employers for unilaterally adjusting work schedules without providing some... View Details
Kwon, Caleb, and Ananth Raman. "The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia." Working Paper, October 2023.
- November 2006
- Article
Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages: The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws
By: Armin Falk, Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder
- 12 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries