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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
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 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
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 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
  • 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 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
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market, and Schering-Plough agreed to... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 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
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 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
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

of the solution, rather than part of the problem. More than ten years later, not only has Walmart failed to lead on product safety but the Blitz cases indicate that little has changed. Based partially on legal fees and View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 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
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Moreover, we use the Global Settlement as an exogenous shock, which limited outside opportunities and therefore exacerbated career concerns, and show that this forecast pattern is more pronounced after the Settlement. Both analysts and... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

agents, imitation or substitution by third parties, and the withdrawal of IP by agents or third-party owners. For each threat, we consider the impact of modularity in the presence or absence of an effective legal system. The models permit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

black-white racial classification and facilitated the incorporation of—previously racially ambiguous—European immigrants into the white majority. We exploit variation induced by the interaction between 1900 settlements of southern-born... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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