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  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

Fisman, and Lauren WeberHarvard Business School Case 711-054 In June 2007, the offices of Russian hedge fund Hermitage Capital were raided by Moscow police; in the months that followed, Hermitage founder Bill Browder found himself banned from Russia and fending off... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

PublicationsAttracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights Authors:James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:International Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract An obstacle to the sale of intellectual property (IP) is that an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated with the rise of apartheid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300 hectares of land View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • News

Front-Row Seat

Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

dissertation, the World Bank, the International Corporate Governance Network, the OCDE, and so on were promoting this principle as a way to overcome the abuses of managers or controlling shareholders who expropriated small shareholders or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater scope for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne