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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race
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  • 23 Mar 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins

  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

In the high-tech industry, it's common practice for a governing body to develop technical standards for any given technology. The goal is to promote widespread adoption and compatibility among various devices. The Bluetooth standard lets a Nokia headset communicate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Legal Services

    Alvin E. Roth

    Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

    Keywords: legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; legal services; 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
    • 12 Jul 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

    billions of dollars of administrative and legal costs from the system. National List of Minimum Coverage. The current system of individual negotiation and litigation over coverage is expensive. A better... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
    • Research Summary

    Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

    Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

    • 07 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

    organizational legitimacy and the kind of moral order we want to create as a society," Anteby explains. The same issues could help us come to grips with the murky legal and ethical areas surrounding the digital age, for example.... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • 30 Nov 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

    Our regulatory system has also been an unnecessary albatross on the growth of fintech players and on banks who try to partner with them. No single federal regulator has authority to oversee business lending. Instead, there is a spaghetti... View Details
    Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
    • January 2019 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    When Trolls Attack: Carbonite vs. Oasis Research

    By: Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers and Sarah Mehta
    This case, set in October 2017, follows Danielle Sheer, general counsel for Carbonite, as she defends the company against claims of patent infringement. It provides a broad overview of the U.S. patent system and explores the impact that non-practicing entities... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Infringement Litigation; Non-practicing Entities; Patent Trolls; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Patents; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Boston
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    • 20 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 20

      PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2016
    • Book

    Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

    By: Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism... View Details
    Keywords: History; Development Economics; Ethics; Social Issues; United States
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    • 2023
    • Book

    The State and Capitalism in China

    By: Meg Rithmire, Margaret M. Pearson and Kellee S. Tsai
    This element explains China's political economic evolution from state socialist economy to a reform era state capitalism model to a more politicized, risk management approach we call "party-state capitalism." We emphasize the internal and external sources of perceived... View Details
    Keywords: China's Political Economy; State Capitalism; State-business Relations; State Ownership; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; China
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    • 22 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan

    Keywords: by Douglas J. Skinner & Suraj Srinivasan
    • 30 Jan 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information from... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
    Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect intellectual property (IP). We... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Value; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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    • 27 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 27, 2007

    the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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