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  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

First and Goal

rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • Web

Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

Lecturer at HBS, I am a retired Securities Litigation Partner at WilmerHale in Boston. I draw upon examples from my practice and have designed the course to develop legal literacy by honing instincts that will help business leaders avoid... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Private Equity under Investigation

regions, there are only a handful of leading groups. When two of these work together, the valuation at which the company will be financed may fall. But on the basis of extensive evidence, the benefits to society from widespread venture... View Details
Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Finance; Finance
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of disclosure (prior art cited) in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 13, 2016

of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Gurun, and Scott Kominers Abstract—We 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 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

these suits are being brought by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that don’t actually generate products, but collect massive amounts of patent portfolios. Lauren H. Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance Unit at HBS, said... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

leaking out of the company" (Armstrong 1993). The committee focused on two options: (1) to begin aggressively litigating those who try to leave with new technologies and (2) to invest in people trying to leave Xerox. Owing to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://hbr.org/product/collective-genius-the-art-and-practice-of-leading-innovation/an/13296E-KND-ENG?referral=01240 August 2013 Harvard Business Law Review Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Evaluating the Impact of the Argentina Ruling By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1028&product_isbn=9781133626701&courseid=MN05&codeid=2A3A&sortBy=copyrightYear&sortByShow=all August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

of sexual abuse lawsuits against priests in the Oblate order that had founded the school. “I wanted to help Salesianum navigate to a place of firmer footing,” observes Kennealey, who arrived after the litigation was settled but... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • April 1975 (Revised December 1975)
  • Case

Sorensen Chevrolet File, The

Concerns the settlement of an automobile insurance claim. A woman, blinded in an accident, alleges that approximate cause of the accident was failure by Sorensen Chevrolet to connect the left headlight of her car. The student is asked for a strategy for settling the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation; Insurance; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Insurance Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-026 'Not so fast...' Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (A) The sudden departure to Hewlett-Packard of a top-level EMC... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 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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  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected litigation and regulatory costs; catering to clients' preferences for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Venture Capital's 'Me Too' Moment

By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Patrick Sweeney
In this paper, we document the historically low rate of hiring of women in the venture capital sector. We find that the high-profile Ellen Pao v. Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial had dramatic treatment effects. In difference-in-differences regressions, we... View Details
Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Founders; Venture Capital; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Lawsuits and Litigation
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  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

Behavior and Impact of Patent Trolls: A Survey By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We survey the empirical literature on non-practicing entity (NPE) litigation behavior and its consequences. We document both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne