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- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
rather routine work situations that many businesses face, but when religious beliefs clashed with business principles, hurt feelings led to legal battles that dragged on for years. The two cases have raised questions for business owners... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
for misleading consumers on how they planned to use their personal information. On Friday Twitter executives who served on a governance board the FTC had ordered into existence left the company, prompting Senate Democrats to urge the FTC to investigate whether that... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent workingmen. The decision quashed over two decades of efforts to end the "truck system." Although legislators had agreed that wage payments... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
role by sticking up for small inventors, going up against big companies that steal the ideas of entrepreneurs who are unable to fight their own legal battles. (NPEs acquire patents either by purchasing them from companies, inventors, and... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
also make the settlement request conform more closely to standard invoices, providing a smoother path for processing payment, instead of initiating an internal legal review. She says it is interesting to... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
a lower threat of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging possible unintentionality may encourage settlement due to the typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
to employees without legal representation, highlighted how difficulties in calculating social benefits, severance packages or assessing settlement offers created significant barriers for employees, rendering... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging possible unintentionality may encourage settlement due to the typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
the government apologized. In order for the settlement to go through, every single claimant had to agree to the terms of the deal. “The one thing these claimants wanted, over and over, was an apology,” Elkins says. “And they got it.”... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and significantly reduces social costs. Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
ownership stake but with control of the political environment. The legal documents surrounding the case provide a unique perspective on the methods of tunneling and provide lessons on how to prevent, or at least mitigate, the risks of... View Details
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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
the board of directors at the Cambridge Settlement House, which provided social services to the urban poor and campaigned for social justice, and she volunteered at Jobs Clearing House, a job placement program for African Americans. In... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective
modest role biases can blow up potential deals. Suppose a plaintiff believes he has a 70 percent chance of winning a million-dollar judgment, while the defense thinks the plaintiff has only a 50 percent chance of winning. This means that, in View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
behavior on the part of government contractors and to keep a portion of any resulting settlement. Boeing, for example, has paid more than $40 million in settlements stemming from False Claim Act cases in the past five years. A detailed... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
This process of filing divisional applications is intended to shape the patents and claims that are ultimately granted so as to fit the invention or inventions that have been made into the appropriate legal form. But the opportunity to... View Details