Dispute - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

relying on the legal system to settle a dispute, says Kirby, you've already lost. "No one would be well-advised to settle a commercial dispute in a Chinese court," he warns. "You're better off not wasting your time." The savvy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

be censored by the IMF for not supplying accurate data. Macri also signed an agreement with US hedge funds to settle a protracted dispute over the country’s failure to repay billions of dollars’ worth of bonds acquired at heavily... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

venture funds with an external focus. These did not prove particularly successful, largely owing to disputes within the firm about appropriate investments. The task force, in member (and future XTV president) Robert Adams's words, rapidly... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

disputes in the Baltics and Asia, and successful chairmanship of two unprecedented global megaconferences: the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea and the U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, also known as the Earth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

conflicts single-handedly, arbitrating disputes as they arose. “These ad hoc interventions allowed him to temporarily relieve tensions and provided fixes to immediate issues,” the researchers explain in the paper. “However, they did not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

over-involvement (of) customers have led to bitter intellectual property right disputes customers simultaneously trying to drive the product in two (or more) very separate market directions (or) feature creep that literally prevents... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

pole may not appeal to everyone, but it is fundamental to how the FDA functions. Conflagrations concerning products like RU-486 and COX-2 inhibitors are almost inevitable considering how many divergent interests and disputes over evidence... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

renegotiations, and the personal interests of highly placed individuals. The resulting power purchase agreements had led to high prices for electricity, imbalances of risks and rewards, and an unwillingness of officials to use the most effective defenses when View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

legal bases for acquiring the data. For example, we may generally retain Personal Data as follows: For as long as may be required under applicable law; As needed to resolve disputes or protect our legal rights; Where processing is based... View Details

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

are happier, more tolerant, and more willing to settle disputes peacefully and democratically. Stagnating or declining economic growth is associated with intolerance, ethnic strife, and dictatorship. But here Friedman adds an important... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

organization.” 35 Absent from the photographic record are images of labor disputes and the harsh reality of working conditions in a steel plant—an otherworldly place of coke furnaces, molten steel, and sweltering heat. Nowhere in the... View Details

30 Jun 2019
News

Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

Clubs News Clubs News Buffalo Alumni Explore the Future of Manufacturing Amid Global Turbulence The HBS Club of Buffalo hosted HBS Professor Willy Shih as a guest speaker in April for a talk on the impacts of global trade disputes on... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to cure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

National Academy of Sciences, there had been little popular attention to this issue. (The only trade books on the topic seemed to either be "war stories" about memorable patent disputes or exhortations to executives to get rich... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

the union movement in North America. On a larger scale, sizeable groups of workers primarily in service industries recently disengaged themselves from the AFL-CIO, which they perceived as being dominated by smaller, more traditional, industrial unions. The Northwest... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

along the way, it was a pivot in my relationship with John McArthur, a finance professor at the time, that caused me to feel—to this day—very positive about my entire HBS experience. As one example, Professor McArthur assumed a possibly unofficial role as a mediator in... View Details

Keywords: Dean

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

tenant entities that supplement the dispute recourse that might be available in courts. This made the projects safe for the extensive amounts of third party capital that came in to build port facilities, factories, processing machinery,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

“raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy... View Details