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- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
capitalists to fund big bets on technology, research universities that mint PhDs, and a clear legal framework that protects intellectual property. In stark contrast, companies in developing countries lack these advantages. But does this... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
Facebook John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-110 In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
The paper also leads to new perspectives on the firm as a legal entity and on the relationship between the Knightian and Coasian views of the firm. Cases & Course MaterialsAppellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55629 Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract— Copyright infringement may result from frictions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
on positive duties to engage in specific actions, including rescue (e.g., aiding victims of natural disaster), beneficence (e.g., donating medicines), and justice (e.g., strengthening weak legal regimes). The aims of the chapter are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
European distribution rights to two highly lucrative drugs. Purchase this exercise:http://hbr.org/search/911044-PDF-ENG Remicade/Simponi: Legal Memorandum Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Supplement 911-046... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
School Case 313-036 This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015
legal battles had destroyed the relationship between the families of the two cousins. This case describes the complexities of corporate governance for a family owned organization. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
different eras; I’ve created several of those, with protagonists confronting new and different challenges at each moment.) Still, I’m willing to take on a new novelist, and maybe a series will follow. Former prosecutor Michael McAuliffe has written a timely View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
we conceptualize two key challenges of governance they face: accountability for dual performance objectives and accountability to multiple principal stakeholders. We revisit the potential and limitations of recently introduced legal forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
students studying legal aspects of management. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312033-PDF-ENG Edna McConnell Clark Foundation—Enabling a Performance Driven Philanthropic Capital Market Allen Grossman and Aldo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Sexual Harassment Harvard Business School Note 308-096 This note provides an introduction to the law of sexual harassment. It has three parts. Part One describes the laws on harassment in the United States. Part Two explores controversial and emerging aspects of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
areas of strong moral opposition, science is often able to develop in the shadow of the law, with the market eventually compelling both moral concerns and legal prohibitions to decline. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
methods unquestioningly. While Americans pioneered the multidivisional firm (divisions within one legal entity), for instance, Germans still preferred Konzerne (multisubsidiary operations). The fact that they were subsidiaries also kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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General Management: Processes and Action
General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
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