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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • February 2019 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman
    This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As... View Details
    Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits and Litigation
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    • 08 Nov 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers

    Keywords: by Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru; Legal Services
    • November 2010 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Hollywood in India: Protecting Intellectual Property (A)

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora
    In January 2010, Fox Star Studios is preparing to release the Bollywood film My Name is Khan in Indian and international markets. What strategies should the company adopt to protect their intellectual property? How much should the company invest in anti-piracy... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Lawsuits and Litigation; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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    • January 2002
    • Case

    Price-Fixing Vignettes

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
    This case escribes the antitrust prosecutions in the United States and abroad of the international bulk vitamins cartel. Both the civil and criminal fines were historically high, and it was the first time the United States prosecuted foreign nationals for U.S. criminal... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Lawsuits and Litigation; Governance Compliance; Auctions; Laws and Statutes; Monopoly; Globalized Markets and Industries; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • October 2021
    • Case

    Financial Reporting at Mattel

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Trung Nguyen, Marshal Herrmann and Julia Kelley
    In September 2020, Diana Ferguson was nearing her first Audit Committee meeting as the newly appointed Audit Committee chair of Mattel, Inc. Mattel was just recovering from an accounting scandal which had revealed the company’s poor internal controls and weak board... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; California
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    • February 2010 (Revised June 2014)
    • Supplement

    CityCenter (C): Turmoil and Choices

    By: John D. Macomber
    "CityCenter (C)" follows the (A) and (B) cases chronologically. The (C) case explores the decisions facing MGM MIRAGE following a lawsuit by partner Dubai World and suspension of Dubai World's cash contributions to the project in early 2009. Issues include the... View Details
    Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Private Equity; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Decisions; Partners and Partnerships; Conflict and Resolution; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Nevada
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    Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members

    By: Suraj Srinivasan
    I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details
    Keywords: Outcome or Result; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Lawsuits and Litigation; Labor; Markets; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Cost; Reputation
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    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

    of a recent election. Or perhaps the training data contains copyrighted data that we might not have permission to use, creating litigation risk for companies that train on that data. Just last week the New York Times sued OpenAI for... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • 28 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

    Investors rely on corporate auditors to keep impartial watch on the accounting practices of the companies they invest in. Historically, investors have not been shy about launching litigation when they believed auditors did not do enough... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
    • March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
    • Case

    Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform

    By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
    New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer faced a decision about how to stop wrongdoing committed by major Wall Street firms during the Internet boom. The equities analysts of Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms were charged with objectively advising retail... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Financial Institutions; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict of Interests; Internet; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Satisfaction (23) Customer Value and Value Chain (12) Customers (104) Customization and Personalization (3) Debt Securities (1) Decision Choices and Conditions (43) Decision Making (240) Decisions (10) Demand and Consumers (223)... View Details
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    Corporate Governance ; Diversity ; Leadership ; Business or Company Management ; Mission and Purpose ; Social Media ; Race ; Environmental Sustainability ; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms ; Governing and Advisory Boards ; Lawfulness ; Lawsuits and View Details
    • Web

    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    tech-enabled nannies. Social Enterprise Track, 2017 Flare Quinn Fitzgerald (MBA 2017) Sara de Zarraga (MBA 2017) Social Enterprise Track Winner Flare is reinventing personal security by creating tech-enabled safety devices for women. Juva... View Details
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    Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

    purpose to which you have consented at the point of collection of information or at another time. To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, for example in connection with threatened or pending litigation or claims or to enforce... View Details
    • 04 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

    “There are important implications for the quality of accounting information in corporations and in capital markets” "We could imagine that as the audit industry becomes more concentrated, the big auditors would become increasingly View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
    • Web

    Harvard Business School

    Broadcast executive and businessman W. Don Cornwell was hired by Goldman Sachs in 1971 and later promoted to chief operating officer of the investment banking division's corporate finance department. In 1988, Cornwell left the securities... View Details
    • Web

    Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

    school should enroll in LME Career Focus: Every MBA should understand how law affects business. In addition to serving as a Senior Lecturer at HBS, I am a retired Securities Litigation Partner at WilmerHale... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 30

    salary allocations to online ad clicks to admission decisions.   Working PapersSecurities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. Authors:Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne