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- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
generally seen at the start of a liquidation event. With the length of a store liquidation event constrained by law and various lease agreements, making the most of the time a store is open View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
context of the economic turmoil at the turn of the 20th century, the alumni asked whether Harvard might develop a school to educate professional managers who would improve the quality and integrity of the managerial class, much as the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
regulation has aimed to increase competition among raters ever since the Enron debacle. "As researchers we feared that increased competition may have detrimental effects in this setting." In our e-mail Q&A, Becker discusses... View Details
- February 1990
- Supplement
Ashland Oil, Inc.: Trouble at Floreffe (D)
Addresses repercussions of the accident on the company including ongoing clean-up efforts, litigation, and organizational changes. View Details
Goodpaster, Kenneth E. "Ashland Oil, Inc.: Trouble at Floreffe (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 390-020, February 1990.
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
looks at how industry players and regulators collectively decided what butter, oranges, and other foods should look like—and how they redefined the meaning of “natural.” Clay... View Details
- November 2010
- Article
The Litigation of Financial Innovations
By: Josh Lerner
This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated are disproportionately those issued to... View Details
Lerner, Josh. "The Litigation of Financial Innovations." Journal of Law & Economics 53, no. 4 (November 2010): 807–831.
- July 2017
- Article
Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Human rights have come to play a prominent role in debates about the responsibilities of business. In the business ethics literature, there are two approaches to the question of whether businesses have human rights obligations. The “moral” approach conceives of human... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Business Responsibilities for Human Rights: A Commentary on Arnold." Business and Human Rights Journal 2, no. 2 (July 2017): 297–309.
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Sexual Harassment Harvard Business School Note 308-096 This note provides an introduction to the law of sexual harassment. It has three parts. Part One describes the laws on harassment in the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
per visit on the site. But MySpace and its rivals have also come under fire from law enforcement officials, policymakers, and parents, who worry that they are a haven for child... View Details
- October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Akiko Kanno
Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as international investors. Most... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Foreign Direct Investment; Personal Finance; Courts and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Japan
Trumbull, J. Gunnar, and Akiko Kanno. "Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-017, October 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- October 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Background Note
Structuring Real Estate Deals: An Investor's Perspective
By: Arthur I Segel
Addresses the following questions: What are the portfolio-level implications? What are the asset-level characteristics? How do I invest? With whom do I invest? What do I get for my investment? What protections do I have? When and how do I get out? View Details
Segel, Arthur I. "Structuring Real Estate Deals: An Investor's Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-066, October 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- January 1988
- Supplement
Santa Clara County Transportation Agency (B)
Describes manager's decision from the (A) case and resulting court decisions, culminating in landmark 1987 Supreme Court ruling. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Courts and Trials; Judgments; Transportation Industry; Public Administration Industry
Heckscher, Charles C. "Santa Clara County Transportation Agency (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 488-040, January 1988.
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to transform the storied Bureau. The FBI had long served as both the chief law enforcement agency and the main domestic intelligence wing of the U.S. government. In practice, though, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2020
- Article
Which Early Withdrawal Penalty Attracts the Most Deposits to a Commitment Savings Account?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Jung Sakong
Previous research has shown that some people voluntarily use commitment contracts that restrict their own choice sets. We study how people divide money between two accounts: a liquid account that permits unrestricted withdrawals and a commitment account that is... View Details
Keywords: Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting; Present Bias; Sophistication; Naiveté; Commitment; Flexibility; Savings; Contract Design; Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; 401 (K); IRA; Saving; Behavior; Contracts; Design; Interest Rates
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Jung Sakong. "Which Early Withdrawal Penalty Attracts the Most Deposits to a Commitment Savings Account?" Art. 104144. Journal of Public Economics 183 (March 2020).
- 2012
- Working Paper
Organization Design for Distributed Innovation
Systems of distributed innovation—so-called business ecosystems—have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Innovation and Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Intellectual Property; Rights; Governance Controls
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Organization Design for Distributed Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-100, May 2012.
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
argue that competition can lead organizations to provide illicit quality that satisfies customer demand but violates laws and regulations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Robert S. Huckman: Breaking down barriers to care—for good The urgency of the pandemic has brought on a pervasive easing of formal and informal regulation in health care. Payment for telemedicine has... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Private Politics research, heavily regulated firms dominate Public Politics studies, and theoretical studies dominate research on Integrated Political Strategy. With this AiSM volume we seek theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- Article
Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights
By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Rights; Monopoly; Business Startups
Anton, James J., Hillary Greene, and Dennis Yao. "Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights." Innovation Policy and the Economy 6 (2006): 1–26. (Harvard users click here for full text.)