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    Ricardo Salinas Pliego

    Keywords: Diversified
    • Career Coach

    Jing Lin Lee

    clear recruiting roadmap from personal branding, networking, resume building, to preparing for interviews and negotiating / deciding between offers. Jing Lin’s industry experience spans across management consulting, tech, View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Emerging Markets; Fintech; Financial Services (All); Technology
    • Article

    Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    Online advertising presents remarkable efficiencies—better targeting, improved measurement and greater return on investment. Yet there are challenges, particularly when networks of intermediaries place ads through convoluted relationships, and all the more so when... View Details
    Keywords: Online Advertising; Rights; Measurement and Metrics; Investment Return; Negotiation; Networks; Problems and Challenges; Performance Efficiency; Law; Advertising Industry
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    • June 2013
    • Article

    What Is Privacy Worth?

    By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
    Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer
    We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rights; Property; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Philippines
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    • April 2021
    • Exercise

    Valuing Employment Exercise

    By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and Katie Panella
    The Valuing Employment exercise can be used to show the importance of impact measurement in designing incentives and contracts. The exercise has two phases. In the first phase, participants play the role of managers at the State of Massachusetts Infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: Bid Evaluation; Workforce; Impact Measurement; Bids and Bidding; Contracts; Design; Measurement and Metrics
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    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

    apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
    • 20 Sep 2016
    • First Look

    September 20, 2016

    Abstract—We study the effect of staggered boards on long-run firm value, using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a staggered board on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find a significant View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2010 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Hollywood in India: Protecting Intellectual Property (A)

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora
    In January 2010, Fox Star Studios is preparing to release the Bollywood film My Name is Khan in Indian and international markets. What strategies should the company adopt to protect their intellectual property? How much should the company invest in anti-piracy... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Lawsuits and Litigation; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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    • July 1999 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
    Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. faces a hostile takeover bid from its competitor, Mentor Graphics. Mentor makes the bid at a moment when Quickturn's stock price is depressed and the company is defending against a patent suit filed by Mentor. The two companies have a... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry
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    • May 2010
    • Article

    Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008

    By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta
    Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details
    Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States
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    • 25 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 25

      Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Meisterchef.com

    By: Henry B. Reiling
    Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details
    Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    • October 1987 (Revised October 1998)
    • Case

    CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)

    Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment contracts, technology licenses, antitrust, trade secrets, and confidential information. Provides a good opportunity... View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Human Resources; Contracts; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Intellectual Property; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Startups; Monopoly
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    • December 2019
    • Article

    Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms

    By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
    We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual-property space. We find that, on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Trolls; Innovation; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ethics; Innovation and Invention
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    • 05 May 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: May 5

    Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 30 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30

    advance empirical research on social enterprise. From this perspective, research infrastructure-building provides an important opportunity for researchers interested in social enterprise and others interested in enabling high-quality... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Sep 2003
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

    catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be... View Details
    Keywords: by David A. Garvin
    • 28 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day Reflections

    work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Efficiency of Patent Litigation

    By: Samuel Antill, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian and Toni M. Whited
    How efficient is the U.S. patent litigation system? We quantify the extent to which the litigation system shapes innovation using a novel dynamic model, in which heterogeneous firms innovate and face potential patent lawsuits. We show that the impact of a litigation... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Lawsuits and Litigation; Growth and Development; Welfare; Patents
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