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14 Feb 2008
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Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

2015
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Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon

In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance

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2009
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Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss

In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East

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20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model called Flexible Substitution Logit (FSL), described in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

smell, would go. Behind the brown paper that covered the store’s windows for several months that year, Brody was building a new kind of brick-and-mortar bookstore for the age of Amazon. When BookHampton opened its doors in 1971, it wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

longer visited HBS with regularity as he was retired from a long life as a prolific academic and professor. I had the privilege of being present at a ceremony honoring Al Chandler after he donated his personal papers to Baker Library. It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

having a better experience, which is good for the customer,” Buell says. “But obviously, that's also really, really important for the organization.” Buell and Choi detailed their findings in the working paper Improving Customer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

with them. The press wants to write about them. Cognitive referents have buzz. McDonald delves into how companies can come to epitomize a market in the working paper Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy. An... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Dec 2014
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Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

26 Jul 2013
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Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation

Keywords: by Francois Brochet & Suraj Srinivasan

17 Jun 2010
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When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

Keywords: by Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart C. Gilson & Belén Villalonga

31 Aug 2007
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Exclusivity and Control

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Robin S. Lee; Entertainment & Recreation

2014
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Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

By: James K. Sebenius

Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Style

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