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  • 02 Aug 2018
  • News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

going to take care of themselves, meaning prescriber limits are coming down, the way that doctors are prescribing is changing, CDC have got guidelines, lawsuits against these pharmaceutical companies and the distributors. All those things... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613051 Harvard Business School Case 313-080 The Facebook IPO Litigation Despite its success in the social-networking space, Facebook Inc.'s May 2012 IPO was largely considered a failure. Facebook faced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

However, a 2008 patent infringement lawsuit filed by St. Jude Medical, the VCD market leader, loomed large. The case was on appeal, and a three-judge panel would hear arguments in March 2013. If AccessClosure lost its appeal, it faced a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

committed to pioneering all avenues of technology and distributing them to wide audiences. The journey wasn't without its trials for both CEOs. Gates' antitrust lawsuit of the mid-90s and Jobs' separation from Apple in the late 80s... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

string of concussion-level hits. And NFL team reports suggest head injuries may actually be on the increase. This new research push underlies a class action lawsuit against the NFL, recently settled for $765 million, pending a judge's... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 18 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

lawsuits alleging that the company had damaged creditors in their quest to preserve equity value. Of particular focus were a series of transactions that took place during 2013 and 2014 to sell assets from one subsidiary to another and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

North America in 2001 after a class-action lawsuit was filed and certified in Washington, D.C. against Sodexo Marriot Services, Inc., the food services division that Sodexo had merged with in 1998. In 2002, Dr. Rohini Anand was hired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

"Wei Ge" (Great Brother), arguing that the term was not a well-known trademark in China. With two lawsuits related to intellectual property rights now pending in China, Pfizer wondered whether trade politics or the rule of law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

participation: uncertainty about the value of the IP being offered, value dissipating effects of competition for the knowledge, and costs associated with ex-post lawsuits claiming expropriation. Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

309-003 The (B) case informs students of Fidelity's decision about pursuing a business process patent for its charitable gift fund and describes subsequent litigation and lawsuits filed by other companies over business process patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

permissions to travel through the country, and Lamb could not obtain them. Lamb planned to continue on illegally, but Moore and several of the others refused to do so, and the lawsuits began. Moore lost most of the $6,000 he had invested... View Details
Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven partly by higher transaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

directors had conflicts of interest because they were involved with the CEO's non-Friendly business activities. In 2003, Blake filed a lawsuit against the CEO and the company. In 2006, Sardar Biglari, a hedge fund manager who had invested... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/bold-retreat/ar/1 Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America Authors:Laura Alfaro, Noel Maurer, and Faisal Ahmed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel), nor of any other type of litigation against firms. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism: forum... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract asbestos-related diseases, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Nine years later, Grace is poised to emerge from bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

the reputations of the scientists on both sides who had worked so hard to discover the tool. This case touches upon a number of other key issues, too: the ethical implications of gene editing; the state of IP and licensing in the biotechnology industry; the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can vote against their re-election to express displeasure over the directors' ineffectiveness at monitoring managers. In a sample of securities class-action lawsuits from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino