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Competition and Antitrust: A Productivity-Based Approach to Evaluating Mergers and Joint Ventures
This article seeks to contribute thinking on how the intellectual foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Competition and Antitrust: A Productivity-Based Approach to Evaluating Mergers and Joint Ventures." Antitrust Bulletin 46, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 919–958. (Revised May 30, 2002.)
- 29 May 2008
- News
America the Difficult
- 16 Sep 2009
- News
Wall Street's New Gilded Age
- 13 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Joseph Lassiter, Harvard Business School
- 2010
- Casebook
Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
Based on a popular education entrepreneurship course at Harvard Business School, Transforming Public Education organizes 18 case studies into modules that reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United... View Details
Childress, Stacey, ed. Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2010.
- 22 Apr 2022
- News
Why Many Employers Have Ditched Four-Year Degree Requirements
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Make the US an Attractive Choice for Manufacturing
- May 2007
- Case
Free the Grapes--Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis A. Yao, Patricia Wu and Libby Cantrill
While wine tourism in the United States was booming, the majority of consumers who tasted a Cabernet Sauvignon in one of Napa Valley's tasting rooms were not permitted to ship the wine directly to their home. In 2002, direct-to-consumer shipping was either banned or... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Lawsuits and Litigation; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Dennis A. Yao, Patricia Wu, and Libby Cantrill. "Free the Grapes--Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry." Harvard Business School Case 707-472, May 2007.
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Race, Justice, and the Jury System in Postbellum Virginia
By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
In December 1877, an all-white grand jury in Patrick County, Virginia, indicted two black teenagers, Lee and Burwell Reynolds, for killing a white man. After a series of trials, an all-white trial jury convicted Lee of second-degree murder and sentenced him to prison.... View Details
Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "Race, Justice, and the Jury System in Postbellum Virginia." Harvard Business School Case 716-047, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
DJ DiDonna
Dennis “DJ” DiDonna has dedicated his career to commercializing social science research to create organizations which positively impact the world.
He is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School where he teaches the... View Details
- November–December 2020
- Article
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Our Work-from-Anywhere Future." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 6 (November–December 2020).
- January 2011
- Article
Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time
By: Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Perspective; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Income; Demography; Debates; Welfare; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
Norton, Michael I., and Dan Ariely. "Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time." Perspectives on Psychological Science 6, no. 1 (January 2011): 9–12.
- October 2003 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914
By: Geoffrey Jones and David Kiron
Examines the global strategy of Singer, one of the world's first multinationals, before 1914. Singer, a U.S. pioneer of the modern sewing machine, established its first foreign factory in Scotland in 1867. Investments followed in manufacturing and marketing in other... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Globalization
Jones, Geoffrey, and David Kiron. "Globalizing Consumer Durables: Singer Sewing Machine before 1914." Harvard Business School Case 804-001, October 2003. (Revised December 2020.)
- 22 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France
- 05 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications
- November 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
SecondMarket—Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact
By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda and James McQuade
In 2011, SecondMarket was an online platform that facilitated secondary transactions of illiquid assets, including private company stock. This case explores reasons for the decline in small-cap IPOs in the United States from the 1990s to the 2000s and how the emergence... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations
Sahlman, William A., Ramana Nanda, and James McQuade. "SecondMarket—Providing Liquidity for Shareholders of Privately Held iContact." Harvard Business School Case 812-072, November 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- January 2005 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
Arch Wireless, Inc.
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry L. Fagan
The largest wireless paging company in the United States has to restructure its debt in response to the collapse of its market. The restructuring faces formidable challenges. Valuing the company is extremely difficult because Arch's public competitors are also severely... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Organizational Structure; Valuation
Gilson, Stuart C., and Perry L. Fagan. "Arch Wireless, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 205-024, January 2005. (Revised November 2014.)
- October 2020
- Case
Fiscal Responses to COVID-19
For the first half of 2020, the COVID-19 crisis seemed on the verge of spiraling out of control. The business world struggled to figure out what COVID meant for macroeconomics. Extended restrictions limiting human interaction meant an end to normal economic production,... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Policy; COVID; COVID-19; Economic Analysis; Economic Downturn; Economic Conditions; Economic Governance; Economic Systems; Economy; Health Pandemics; Finance; Policy; United States; Germany; France; European Union
Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons, and Galit Goldstein. "Fiscal Responses to COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 721-011, October 2020.
- February 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law
By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
For over a century, the international diamond market has been dominated by one of the most successful cartels on earth. Run by the legendary De Beers Corp., the cartel has managed to keep diamond prices increasing and to prevent the defection that dooms most other... View Details
Keywords: Lawfulness; Monopoly; Luxury; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Mining Industry; Africa; United States
Spar, Debora L., and Jennifer Burns. "Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law." Harvard Business School Case 700-082, February 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
- August 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Background Note
Doctrine of Stare Decisis and Lawrence v. Texas, The
Explains the difference between civil law and common law systems and explores the role of precedent in a common law jurisdiction, such as the United States. Includes extensive excerpts from both the majority and the dissenting opinions in Lawrence v. Texas, in which... View Details
Bagley, Constance E. "Doctrine of Stare Decisis and Lawrence v. Texas, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-016, August 2003. (Revised December 2003.)