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    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

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    Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Rights; Fairness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Pennsylvania
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    Overview

    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
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    Overview

    My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
    • 22 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22, 2008

    the company faces a number of challenges, including generic drugs, patent infringements in developing countries, and pricing pressure from governments and health insurers in the United States. Given these... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 2001
    • Background Note

    Note on Application of the Antitrust Laws to the New Economy: An Analysis of United States v. Microsoft Corporation

    Analyzes the 1991 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the seminal New Economy antitrust case United States vs. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3rd 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), which arose out of Microsoft's efforts to promote Internet Explorer... View Details
    Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Software; Intellectual Property; Monopoly; Laws and Statutes; Information Technology Industry; District of Columbia
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    • 11 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

    infringing on them—and Marshall was considered a favorable place to sue, since the town had a habit of ruling in the plaintiffs’ favor. While researching patent suits, Cohen was struck by just how much... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
    • 12 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

    focuses on those issues and tools of greatest relevance to the managers being trained. For example, managers of a firm like Microsoft need to know how to preserve the patentability of inventions, how to avoid View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    cash held overseas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52017 Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents By: Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu, and Gary... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 14 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: February 14

    key channel driving our findings: in states with an already established VC presence, the passage of anti-troll laws leads to a 19% increase in the number of firms receiving VC funding. Our findings suggest that measures aimed at curbing the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    the free labor wage system, two obstacles complicated legislative action. Any law meant to enhance laborers' rights could neither favor one class over another nor infringe any workingman's ability to make voluntary contracts. These... View Details
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Acquisition (4) Knowledge Dissemination (5) Knowledge Management (40) Knowledge Sharing (14) Knowledge Use and Leverage (11) Knowledge (68) Labor and Management Relations (3) Labor (136) Law Enforcement (2) Lawfulness (1) Laws and Statutes (11) Lawsuits and View Details
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    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    Sandra Nudelman Michele Nudelman Business Track Winner Tool to help attorneys optimize their litigation strategy by enabling judicial bias analysis. C3 BioEnergy Tracy Mathews Curt Fischer Andrew Peterson Business Track Runner-Up C3... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2006
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    First Look: August 29, 2006

    to wonder whether having shed much of her femininity will compromise her effectiveness as a leader. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406096   PublicationsFinding Lost Profits: An Equilibrium Analysis of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Sep 2016
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    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... View Details
    • 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 View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Jul 2015
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    First Look: July 28, 2015

    NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

    infringement lawsuits in U.S. district courts. The results of this review would be nonbinding but admissible in later court proceedings. Whether conducted by an independent Patent View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Jul 2014
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    First Look: July 22

    unrelated to the allegedly infringing patents. We next show that NPEs target firms irrespective of the closeness of those firms' patents to the NPEs', and that NPEs typically target firms that are busy with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Larissa Bifano

      Larissa S. Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark... View Details