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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono immigration View Details

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

and access of information. It’s not as if people were terribly cautious in pre-pandemic days. Many people have mistakenly assumed that they could freely engage with competitors as long as they weren’t bound by non-compete agreements—and then got served with a lawsuit.... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

intermediaries that make typosquatting profitable, and I assess the legislation and litigation that are beginning to put a check on this practice. Download the paper: http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/misc/threat_center/... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before becoming a professor, she was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in New... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, Sawyer argues that trade associations of independent proprietors... View Details

20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710408-PDF-ENG C.K. Claridge, Inc James K. SebeniusHarvard Business School Case 910-045 Sued for patent infringement, chemical manufacturer C.K. Claridge (CKC) tries to design a settlement strategy taking into account a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2025
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A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details

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29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

stringent inspections and enforcement of safety standards in Bangladesh's garment factories. The proposal was met by opposition from several U.S. firms, which claimed the proposal carried too a high a risk of litigation for them to sign.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
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Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into... View Details

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31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

national stakeholders to initiate litigation against the focal firm. We test our predictions using a two-pronged empirical strategy. Our empirical context relates to herbal patents from emerging markets, and given that we have a small... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

commitments unsurprisingly are conducive to intense litigation activity. This paper builds a framework for the analysis of SEPs, identifies several types of inefficiencies attached to the lack of price commitment, shows how structured... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

key channel driving our findings: in states with an already established VC presence, the passage of anti-troll laws leads to a 19% increase in the number of firms receiving VC funding. Our findings suggest that measures aimed at curbing the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2021
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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

all but two investors wrote their checks despite massive uncertainty as to the nature of the criminal charges and the complete certainty of bad press and high litigation costs. We launched the new website on time. As the company grew,... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

multi-tasking problems. Contracts often specify provisions that are unobservable or difficult to verify, suggesting a role for expected litigation as an enforcement tool in contract design. Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised July 2025)
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Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the challenges faced by Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche Industries Limited in 2003, when the Kenyan government accused the company of manufacturing and selling substandard alcoholic drinks, revoked its liquor licenses, and shut down its... View Details