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- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
exploiting inefficiencies in the legal system regarding how we define and enforce intellectual property rights." Add to those inefficiencies the fact that patents are not like other kinds of property, where ownership is clear-cut.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
of managers and shareholders. Takeovers were favored as a means of enforcing the urgency of such alignment. At about this time, according to Khurana, deregulation came along that both made it possible and more tempting for agents to act... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
against federal law? But in the absence of enforcement action by the United States government, perhaps the better question is, what will the inevitable national market in marijuana shake out? Will it consist of grungy underground head... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
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
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
management. After controlling for the materiality of the restatement, firms from weak rule of law countries are more likely to opt for less visible restatement disclosure methods. We interpret these findings as home country enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
"preliminary" agreement can have binding effect. This note explores the circumstances under which MOUs may give rise to binding and enforceable agreements. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312018-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
property regimes; procurement policies that favor new firms; standards that allow competition by component rather than by system and—sometimes—antitrust enforcement that forces large, well-established firms to share the market. I'm firmly... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
emulated. How can organizations ensure that the reports are more than simply separate filings paper-clipped together, but rather that the financial and non-financial data interrelate with each other to tell a unified story? To what degree should the reports be mandated... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
U.S. firms and foreign firms from strong rule of law countries show a positive association between restatement frequency and internal control weaknesses. Firms from weak rule of law countries show no significant association. We interpret these findings as home country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
to do so may allow these rivals to gain advantage through illicit strategies, particularly under institutional regimes where regulatory monitoring or enforcement is weak," the paper states. For government agencies, the findings... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
enforcing deceptive advertising guidelines against “fictitious pricing”—the practice of quoting list prices that do not truthfully reflect prior selling prices. This paper uses a large retail transaction data set that features wide... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
technologies allow information to flow seamlessly and invisibly across national borders, they make it very difficult for governments to do many of the things to which they have grown accustomed. Governments can't patrol their physical territories in cyberspace; they... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar