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  • 08 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

international negotiations, I've seen numerous promising deals fail because people ignored or underestimated the powerful differences in processes across cultures... . . . What are the informal influences that can make or break a deal?... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Property Rights for Foreign Capital: Sovereign Debt and Private Direct Investment in Times of Crisis

By: Louis T. Wells
Keywords: Property; Rights; International Finance; Capital; Sovereign Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Crisis
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  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

for contracts in developing countries where the rule of law isn't as well enforced. In both anecdotal and empirical research, however, Healy has found that corruption may not be as necessary as it is perceived to be. In fact, at the end... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure that helps revise its beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

countries I study, French civil law countries had, on average, stronger creditor rights that common law countries. Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

speaking on the current movement in Asia to shift to green and renewable energy sources. The event, moderated by HBS professor Ramana Nanda, was cosponsored by the student-run HBS Asia Business Club, Harvard Asia Law Society, and HKS East... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

what extent does platform leadership help or hinder the development of such ideas? Do our anti-trust laws adequately address the issue of platform leaders and their behaviors? Platform leadership requires ingenuity, a strong customer... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Brand China Can Succeed

hardly alone in these behaviors, but its size as the third largest economy in the world now commands attention—and the expectation of better behavior. Not until recently has China's government given serious attention to the country's View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

into how individuals learn directly from their prior experience and indirectly from the experiences of others. The Litigation of Financial Innovations Authors: Josh Lerner Publication: Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

  Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Restructuring Navigator Gas Transport Plc

By: C. Fritz Foley
How should creditors pursue their claims in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy? David Butters, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, negotiates a restructuring of Navigator Gas Transport, a shipping company that is headquartered in Switzerland, incorporated in the Isle of... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Complexity; Capital Structure; Restructuring; International Finance; Law; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry; Switzerland; Isle of Man
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations

By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
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  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

Chinese babies), and international restrictions and legislation concerning adoption. High-tech measures include IVF, artificial insemination, surrogacy, gamete interfallopian transfer (GIFT) in which the sperm is injected directly into... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209021 Clifford Chance: Repotting the Tree Harvard Business School Case 207-073 Clifford Chance, LLP, a global law firm headquartered in London, needs to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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