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02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage trade and investment and thus to... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-049 Securities Exchange Board of India: Developing and Regulating India's Capital Markets No... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

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

August 2007
Case

The Battle Of Union Square

Union Square Ventures, a Private Equity firm founded in 2003, filed a trademark infringement suit against Union Square Partners, another private equity firm founded in November 2006. Examines the possible impact that public litigation will have on the two firms. The... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Trademarks; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict Management; Reputation; Financial Services Industry

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23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this trend and India's unique position... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

Article

Are Imports to Blame?: Attribution of Injury Under the 1974 Trade Act

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Robert Pindyck

Keywords: Trade; Law

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23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

place—China. In 2001, the country transitioned to independent boards and passed a unique law requiring board members of publicly traded firms to reveal when they dissent from the majority opinion, along with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where... View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

January 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Teaching Note

Lawyers & Leases TN

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Teaching Note for (9-801-166). View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Education; Education Industry

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March 2008 (Revised June 2012)
Background Note

ADR Choices

By: Michael Wheeler, James Sebenius and Marjorie Aaron

Six different business disputes, all in the shadow of pending litigation, are described. Students are asked to recommend the appropriate method of dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration, mini-trial, etc.) for each one, depending on the circumstances, especially to... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

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March 2010
Teaching Note

Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged) (TN)

Teaching Note for [810114]. View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Venture Capital; Lawfulness; Attorney and Client Relationships; Employees; Resignation and Termination

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January 2014
Teaching Note

R&R

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence

This a revised teaching note for R&R case(9-386-019). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Experience and Expertise; Contracts; Cost Management; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit

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January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
Case

Avalon Information Services, Inc.

By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White

The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Safety; Demand and Consumers; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Ethics; Information Industry

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June 2020
Supplement

TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher

This courseware accompanies the case "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Valuation; Negotiation; Cash Flow; Contracts; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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June 2009
Teaching Note

Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Deepak Malhotra

Teaching Note for [809020]. View Details

Keywords: Equity; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Groups and Teams; Entrepreneurship; Contracts; Ownership Stake

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February 2006
Article

Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data

By: Lee G. Branstetter, Raymond Fisman and C. Fritz Foley

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Rights; Information Technology; Information; Analytics and Data Science; United States

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23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

To what extent do multinational corporations have an institutional obligation to the Asian countries in which they serve, and does that obligation include holding higher standards than Asian law requires?... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

June 2013
Case

Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with Its Service Professionals

By: F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, Maria Garcia Perez and Katherine M. Miller

Multiasistencia, a major Spanish BPO of insurance repairs, is changing the relational contract with its service professionals from a referral model to a guaranteed workload one. View Details

Keywords: Outsourcing; Incentives; Relational Contracts; Business Model; Motivation and Incentives; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Contracts; Insurance Industry; Spain

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