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- February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Burma Pipeline, The
By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
- Article
The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey of the Empirical Literature
By: Josh Lerner and Jenny Lanjouw
- November 1997
- Case
Borden Ranch: Balancing Private Property Rights and Social Interests in Ag
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Don Daniels and Diane Richmond
Angelo Tsakopoulos wanted to convert grazing land to crop agriculture. He received different advice from different government agencies and became involved in legal battles. View Details
- October 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
NAACP, The
By: James E. Austin, Paul Barese, Stephanie L. Woerner and Elaine V. Backman
In February 1995, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in the United States, was in the midst of a crisis. The executive director had been fired due to financial improprieties amid charges of... View Details
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Supplement
Charles Veillon, S.A. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Howard Reitz
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- June 1996 (Revised May 1998)
- Teaching Note
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-1), (A-2), and (B) TN
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Andrea L Strimling
Teaching Note for (9-895-062), (9-895-063), and (9-898-258). View Details
- January 1996
- Case
Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent
By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
CompuServe, an online services vendor, informs its software developers that they must enter into a licensing agreement to use the popular GIF compression. CompuServe claims that it is forced to do so because Unisys is enforcing its patent rights in this area. Others... View Details
- October 1995
- Article
Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects
By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao
We examine the incentive problem confronting a firm and employee when the employee privately discovers a significant invention and faces a choice between keeping the invention private and leaving the firm to form a new company (start-up), or transferring knowledge and... View Details
- June 1995 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (C): Future Challenges
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
This case considers the future challenges facing the Northern Telecom joint venture in China with Tong Guang Electronics. Asks how well the start-up and transition have been managed and whether the right foundation has been laid for the future. View Details
- May 1995 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-1)
Rhone-Poulenc wished to acquire a new permit, but local residents who were concerned about health issues threatened to block the permit. View Details
Keywords: Health; Rights; Negotiation; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Chemical Industry; United States
- May 1995
- Supplement
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (B)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Avalon Information Services, Inc.
By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White
The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing... View Details
- January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
- Supplement
Apple Computer 1995 (A)
By: David B. Yoffie and Takia Mahmood
Updates Apple Computer--1992. Summarizes the key strategic actions from 1992 to 1995 regarding PCs, the PowerMac, multimedia, OS licensing, and alliances with IBM. View Details
- November 1994 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Levi Strauss & Co.: Global Sourcing (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
In 1993, senior managers at Levi Strauss & Co., the world's largest brand-name apparel manufacturer, were deciding whether the company should have a business presence in China, given the human rights and other problems there. The China Policy Group has been asked to... View Details
- March 1994
- Article
Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights
By: J. Anton and Dennis Yao
We analyze the problem faced by a financially weak independent inventor when selling a valuable, but easily imitated, invention for which no property rights exist. The inventor can protect his or her intellectual property by negotiating a contingent contract (with a... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Montana Land Reliance
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Thomas Patterson
The Montana Land Reliance is a small not-for-profit organization in the business of creating conservation easements on private lands in Montana. The easements preserve the scenic character and recreational value of the lands by precluding subdivision and other forms of... View Details
- November 1993 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
OfficePro (A)
By: John A. Quelch
The international procurement manager of an off-price office supply retail chain has to recommend which of several bids to accept for the right to supply computer diskettes to OfficePro's new French subsidiary. View Details
- September 1993
- Case
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)
ALZA, a company specializing in drug delivery systems such as transdermal patches, considers manufacturing its own products. Until now, the company has conducted research and development on its patented system but has then licensed the technology to client-partner... View Details
- September 1993
- Supplement
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)
ALZA, a drug delivery company, must decide what and for whom to manufacture. In the past, it has licensed to pharmaceutical companies its patented system for the slow release of drugs into the human system. Therefore the company has little experience in choice of drug... View Details