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  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

of dollars to one of the employees. There were also suggestions of a coverup: Easterbrook had allegedly deleted material from his phone. The board made the complicated decision to try to claw back Easterbrook’s severance, resulting in a lengthy View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

argued it was simply offering a platform for consumers to share. That company was Napster, the MP3 file-sharing service that was forced to shut down in 2001 after losing a legal battle against several major... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

fight for the long haul. The legal battle will culminate in the United States Supreme Court, with a ruling expected in June. Not Setting Precedent While most observers remain focused on the outcome of the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
  • 29 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

environment, and mend its sometimes-cantankerous relationship with its 1 million-plus drivers, who are independent contractors. Besides, Kanter says, the company needs to rethink whether it makes sense to fight one controversial legal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

wings battle over who gets the biggest piece of the pie, while paying little attention to expanding the pie of social resources for all. Q: If I recall my political science studies, lawyers and career politicians are disproportionately... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

suppliers that adopt legalization structures (operationalized as management system standards) and worker participation structures (unions) and find that the combination of these structures amplifies improvement. We find less improvement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

battle (to get $700,000 minus legal fees) will exceed the defendant's assessment of his exposure (to pay $500,000 plus fees). Without significant risk aversion, the divergent assessments would block any... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

eras; I’ve created several of those, with protagonists confronting new and different challenges at each moment.) Still, I’m willing to take on a new novelist, and maybe a series will follow. Former prosecutor Michael McAuliffe has written a timely View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

passed, often twelve to twenty-four months. Such a clause, for instance, sparked a public legal battle two years ago when Google hired away a top Microsoft executive, Kai-Fu Lee. But disputes and tensions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

example, the current battle over the next-generation format for DVD. Will it be Blu-ray (Sony) or HD DVD (Toshiba)? Without an accepted standard in this case, and one does not appear likely, consumers will be forced to buy one format or... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

price. They may understand the importance of interpersonal interaction, of setting the atmosphere, and of thinking through offers and counteroffers. But their narrow focus on a battle of bargaining positions at the table can blind them to... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

invent a product, a large company can’t just swoop in and steal it and dare the little guy to fight it. NPEs claim they are protecting these little guys. Opponents, however, say they are exploiting imperfections in the legal system. Cohen... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently raging, outside of the public eye, between the advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist movement, his contempt for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

industry practices, which the press juxtaposed against the grim realities of AIDS in southern Africa. In response, governmental and nongovernmental organizations formed a coalition that ultimately won big public health exemptions on international intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

most intense battles of the cola wars were fought over the $66 billion CSD industry in the United States, where the average American consumes 52 gallons of CSD per year. In a "carefully waged competitive struggle," from 1975 to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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