Property - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 1995 (Revised August 1996)
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Colliers International Property Consultants, Inc.: Organizational Integration

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Organizational Design; Integration; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry

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February 2010
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Real Blue? Viagra and Intellectual Property Rights Law in China

By: Regina M. Abrami and Tracy Manty

On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making matters worse, a Guangdong-based pharmaceutical company laid claim to... View Details

Keywords: Trade; International Relations; Patents; Trademarks; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

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2005
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Property Rights in Crisis: Managers and Rescue

By: Nien-he Hsieh

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Variable Leases Under ASC 842: Evidence on Properties and Consequences

By: Jonas Heese, Albert Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang

The new lease standard (ASC 842) allows firms to keep variable leases off-balance-sheet, in part based on the assumption that future expenses are difficult to estimate reliably. We show that variable-lease expenses are both prevalent and substantial, exhibiting... View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Accounting; Leasing; Financial Strategy

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February 2020
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Seso Global: Building a Blockchain-enabled Property Marketplace in Nigeria

By: Boris Vallee and Yang (Dolly) Yu

The mutual aspiration of addressing the housing shortage and improving real estate market efficiency led Daniel and Phillip to co-found Seso Global in 2017. Seso Global developed a unique integrated platform to streamline and rationalize the process of acquiring and... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Blockchain; Developing Markets; Entrepreneurial Management; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Property; Growth and Development Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Real Estate Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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December 2004
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How Market Smarts Can Protect Property Rights

By: Bharat N. Anand and Alexander Galetovic

Keywords: Property; Rights

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2007
Working Paper

How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture

By: Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece

In making strategic decisions about how to capture value from innovation, managers often look at two critical domains—the intellectual property environment and the architecture of the industry—as beyond their control. Yet, the intellectual property environment and the... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Intellectual Property; Industry Structures; Value

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2016
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China

By: Lily Fang, Josh Lerner and Chaopeng Wu

Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase... View Details

Keywords: Privatization; Copyright; Innovation and Invention; China

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2005
Chapter

Property Rights in Crisis: Managers and Rescue

By: Nien-he Hsieh

Keywords: Property; Rights; Management

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2004
Chapter

Strategies That Work When Property Rights Don't

By: Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic

Keywords: Property; Rights; Strategy

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2006
Article

Performance Measure Properties and the Effect of Incentive Contracts

By: J. Bouwens and L. van Lent

Using data from a third-party survey on compensation practices at 151 Dutch firms, we show that less noisy or distorted performance measures and higher cash bonuses are associated with improved employee selection and better-directed effort. Specifically, (1) an... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Data and Data Sets; Problems and Challenges; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Netherlands

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07 Jan 2016
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Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Greg Saunders (MBA 1990) is the chief executive officer of CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital, a California–based financing firm focused on empowering commercial property owners to reduce their the carbon footprint of their buildings. In... View Details

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Patent primer: patent vs. intellectual property rights

Is there a quick introduction about patent v.s intellectual property right for start-ups or small businesses? The following introduction materials may get you start quickly: Intellectual property covers View Details

November 2010 (Revised February 2011)
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Hollywood in India: Protecting Intellectual Property (A)

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Namrata Arora

In January 2010, Fox Star Studios is preparing to release the Bollywood film My Name is Khan in Indian and international markets. What strategies should the company adopt to protect their intellectual property? How much should the company invest in anti-piracy... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Lawsuits and Litigation; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India

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March 1994
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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

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Sales; Contracts; Negotiation

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