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  • 11 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

legal system is predicated on a jury of our peers deciding a case based on their own independent opinions, not on their warm feelings from the advertisement they saw on their way to the courthouse. To prevent unfair persuasion, Cohen... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 23 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

    Joseph B. Lassiter

    Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

    Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    legal obligations Globalization has opened new opportunities and markets for businesses, but it has also brought new complexities. Countries have different legal requirements for layoffs in areas such as... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • Program

    PLD Module 5

    company build and sustain a competitive advantage. You will emerge with the leadership skills and confidence to make high-level decisions that support your organization's financial needs, legal requirements, ethical obligations, and... View Details
    • 30 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?

    Keywords: by Joanne Horton, George Serafeim & Ioanna Serafeim
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Sustainability for People and the Planet: Placing Workers at the Center of Sustainability Research

    By: Julie Yen, Julie Battilana and Emilie Aguirre
    Though workers face a series of critical challenges in contemporary work organizations, they are often overlooked in conversations about sustainable business. In this chapter, we argue that prioritizing the rights and well-being of workers is a core dimension of... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Employees; Well-being; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Social Issues
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    • September–October 2015
    • Article

    Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Learning; Situation or Environment
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    • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
    The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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    • Summer 2017
    • Article

    Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments

    By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
    Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments... View Details
    Keywords: Copyright; Law Enforcement; Lawsuits and Litigation; Cost
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    • March 2017
    • Case

    CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)

    By: William R. Kerr, Sari Kerr and Alexis Brownell
    CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs like Wi-Fi and legal advice. Founder Tim Rowe refers to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together... View Details
    Keywords: Start-ups; Boston; Cambridge; St. Louis; CIC; Cambridge Innovation Center; Co-working Space; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Innovation Ecosystems; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Offices; Innovation and Invention
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    • 11 Jun 2024
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

    As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 11 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Managers and Market Capitalism

    Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

    • 02 Oct 2019
    • News

    How Dishonesty Drains You

    • 03 Oct 2016
    • News

    How to Manage a Toxic Employee

    • TeachingInterests

    Managing International Trade and Investment

    By: Dante Roscini
    Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Comparative Corporate Governance

    Dyck's research identifies the important role that institutions external to the firm play in determining corporate governance abuses, financial sector development, and the success of government policies such as privatization. In recent work Dyck develops an empirical... View Details
    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Critical Choices in Designing a Board: An Overview

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lynn S. Paine

    Board design is never one-size-fits-all. It’s a series of critical choices—each with trade-offs—that can define how a board functions, governs, and delivers strategic value.

    That’s the premise of "Critical Choices in Designing a Board," a... View Details

    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • September 2023
    • Supplement

    CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

    By: Willy Shih
    Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and the deep-sea segment, which... View Details
    Keywords: Container Shipping; Decarbonization; Energy Efficiency; Logistics; Supply Chain; Trade; Environmental Regulation; Governance Compliance; Ship Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe; Asia; North America
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