Corporate Legal Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

organizations] potentially will 'blackmail' IP owners to accept low prices in exchange for their functionalities being selected into the standard." Structured Price Commitments The paper goes on to explore and endorse the idea of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Legal Services

January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
Supplement

Uría Menéndez (B) (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles

This one-page case, to be handed out in class, briefly lists the three major strategic options facing Uria Menendez. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Law; Geographic Location; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Legal Services Industry; Iberian Peninsula

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01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

to law enforcement? How much disclosure is legally required, and how much is appropriate ethically? How will disclosure affect the company’s stock price and prospects for attracting future business? For any executive, it’s a nightmare... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

sustainability. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and CEO of the Ayala Corporation and vice chairman of Manila Water, is an architect of the water company’s successful triple-bottom-line approach to providing millions with a basic... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services; Corporate Services

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate governance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

now GFI, Baker has become a leading expert on the world’s shadow financial structure and illicit money supply. He also understands corruption’s human toll. Burned into his memory is the Nigerian lady who helped care for his children,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

studied the credit ratings industry in the wake of the financial crisis. In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics, he examined the role of competition between raters. One important distinction, in his view, is between View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

October 2011 (Revised October 2013)
Case

A New Financial Policy at Swedish Match

By: Bo Becker and Michael Norris

Swedish Match is a profitable smokeless tobacco company with low debt compared to other firms in its industry. The firm's CFO now wants to revise the firm's conservative financial policy. View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Finance; Sweden

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08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

to intervene in the process of competition and to improve the environment for competition. One of the points you mention in your book is that Japanese corporate practice has encouraged permanent employment. How is employee loyalty... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

foundations with formal boards and designated roles and responsibilities. Now there is a wide range of foundations that are emerging. At one end of the continuum are nonprofit foundations that act as little more than legal shells to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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Research Resources | Baker Library

image scientists, organic chemists, polymer chemists, and physicists in the photometric laboratory in the research and development department. Polaroid Corporation Records Held by the Polaroid Bankruptcy Estate, 1951–2005 Board of... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Professor Bower, since 1970 you have articulated views on the resource allocation process and how it fundamentally shapes corporate strategy. Could you give us a brief overview of the resource allocation process? Bower: Organizations of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

values or investment decisions. In other words, financing structure does not matter. Yet much of the empirical research in the field of corporate finance over the last twenty-five years has attempted to show... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

James R. Moffett

In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

20 Feb 2019
News

Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust

curriculum. We should prioritize trustworthiness, because ultimately, that is how we will make a real contribution to society.” Nohria goes on to note his fears that trust in corporations and their leaders could be damaged by recent... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market

Traditionally, corporate strategists define industry structure, competitive positions, resources, and knowledge flows as the key sources of competitive advantage. Within these sources, they look for areas of opportunity in the market that... View Details

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Executive changes

desired company and click to add to the search. Enter other desired search criteria, then click Search. Capital IQ:
Screen for changes: Mouse over Screening, then click Key Developments. In the menu box for Key Developments, click Category.View Details

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

ecosystems and the issues that startups in developed markets face when expanding globally, highlighting the areas of context that affect the decisions of players in the sector. These areas will be highlighted in six modules which include differences in industry View Details

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

concerned investors, activists, and customers. The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large publicly-listed companies in Europe to annually disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, starting in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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