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11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

employment"—including non-compete agreements. But in 1985, the state passed the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act (MARA), which sweepingly repealed dozens of laws and acts, including the inadvertent repeal of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
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Petrobras in Ecuador (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details

Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador

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21 Jul 2009
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evolution of audit committees, and the laws and regulations that have affected their role over time. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

01 May 2015
Blog Post

How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life

that I was willing to hear and ready to answer the single question HBS has asked its community for generations: “what do you want your life to be?” And as a response, I recently decided to leave my View Details

08 May 2012
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weakening its capacity to achieve espoused goals and eroding public trust. In the private sector, institutional corruption typically entails gaming society's laws and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, Davin Chor & Paola Conconi

05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

growth dilemmas facing Manish Sabharwal, co-founder, TeamLease Services Pvt. Ltd. TeamLease is a human resource outsourcing and temp staffing company located in India, which has grown rapidly from 2002 to 2009. Set in the context of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

by investors and government regulators for hyping stocks and other questionable practices. The last CEO spent over one million dollars to redecorate his office View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

problem where many actors must collaborate together, including companies, investors, accounting firms, sell-side analysts, regulators and standard setters, and NGOs View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Mar 2018
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Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

Kaplan says. Working with Kaplan were Phillip Tseng, Duke University School of Medicine; Barak D. Richman, Duke Law School and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Mahek A. Shah, Institute for... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

16 Dec 2011
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Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

and attempt to develop frameworks for assessing the nature of this impact. It is equally important to identify the entrepreneurs and firms that have been ahead of governments View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

September 2001 (Revised October 2001)
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Priceline.com v. Microsoft (A)

Describes Priceline's patent of its "reverse auction" pricing mechanism, its discussions with Microsoft regarding Microsoft's license of the patent for its Expedia service, Microsoft's subsequent use of the technology without a license, and Priceline's decision whether... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Patents; Rights; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Software; Information Technology Industry

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Keywords: Ecotourism

July 2008 (Revised September 2008)
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Recent Developments in the Ranbaxy Case

By: Robert C. Pozen

This brief case describes settlements Indian drug maker Ranbaxy has made with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, as well as Daiichi Kangyo's purchase of a majority shareholding in Ranbaxy in 2008. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake; Pharmaceutical Industry; India

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Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

A new administration takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon by the previous state government and a U.S.-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs, and political pressures. View Details