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    Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

    The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

    • September 2007
    • Supplement

    Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper (Video Supplement)

    By: Boris Groysberg
    What does it take to build a successful career over time? Describes Amy Schulman's career progression and role as a star senior litigator and top executive at one of the world's largest law firms. It focuses on different stages in her career and what she did to be... View Details
    Keywords: Law; Personal Development and Career; Time Management; Work-Life Balance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    Groysberg, Boris. "Leadership in Law: Amy Schulman at DLA Piper (Video Supplement)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 408-701, September 2007.
    • April 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Golden Rule

    By: Andrew Wasynczuk
    Jim Golden wants to radically change how catastrophic trucking accident lawsuit claims are handled by his trucking company. He wants to “do the right thing” for both the claimant and his company. Golden is a former litigator with 16 years of experience defending... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ethics; Business Law; Law; Executives; Management Education; Management; Negotiator's Dilemma; Negotiations; Value; Moral Compass; Moral Leadership; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Corporate Accountability; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Value Creation
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    Wasynczuk, Andrew. "Golden Rule." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 917-024, April 2017.
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
    Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-081, February 2014.

      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
      • March 2000 (Revised July 2000)
      • Case

      Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (A) (Abridged)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse
      Jeanne Lewis, after six years with Staples, Inc., is promoted to senior vice president of marketing. She is to work for fifteen months alongside her predecessor, a legacy in the organization, "learning the ropes" before he moves on. This case is set nine months after... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Management Succession; Competitive Advantage; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Retail Industry; United States
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      Hill, Linda A., and Jennifer Suesse. "Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 400-065, March 2000. (Revised July 2000.)
      • May 2, 2014
      • Article

      If You're Feeling Unappreciated, Give Someone Else Credit

      By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
      Conflict in a family business can escalate quickly, but it's crucial to avoid it whenever possible. The article emphasizes recognizing the signs of escalating conflict and taking steps to prevent it. When disagreements arise, people often resort to legal action, which... View Details
      Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Family Business
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      Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "If You're Feeling Unappreciated, Give Someone Else Credit." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 2, 2014).
      • 11 Sep 2020
      • HBS Seminar

      Janet Freilich, Fordham University, School of Law

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      Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan

      By: Douglas Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan
      We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese... View Details
      Keywords: Audit Quality; Auditor Reputation; Japan; Accounting Audits; Crime and Corruption; Reputation; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Japan
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      Skinner, Douglas, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan." Accounting Review 87, no. 5 (September 2012): 1737–1765.
      • January 2010
      • Article

      Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

      We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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      Givoly, Dan, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz. "Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?" Accounting Review 85, no. 1 (January 2010): 195–225. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-105.)
      • 29 Aug 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Patent Trolls

      Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Scott Duke Kominers
      • 2024
      • Book

      Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

      By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
      Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.

      Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Contracts
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      Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment

      By: Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa and Elena Simintzi
      We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered passage of anti-patent-troll laws at the state level. We find that the... View Details
      Keywords: Patent Trolls; Patents; Small Business; Employment; Venture Capital
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      Appel, Ian, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi. "Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-072, February 2017.
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Appraisal after Dell

      By: Guhan Subramanian
      This essay presents new data on appraisal litigation and appraisal outs. I find that appraisal claims have not meaningfully declined in 2016 and that perceived appraisal risk, as measured by the incidence of appraisal outs, has increased since the Dell appraisal in May... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Contracts; Negotiation Process
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      Subramanian, Guhan. "Appraisal after Dell." Chap. 10 in The Corporate Contract in Changing Times: Is the Law Keeping Up? edited by Steven Davidoff Solomon and Randall Stuart Thomas, 222–243. University of Chicago Press, 2019.
      • June 2004 (Revised January 2005)
      • Case

      Rambus Inc., 2004

      By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
      Examines the role of technology licensing in strategies for high-technology companies. In the 1990s, Rambus developed a revolutionary memory technology that would improve the ability of DRAMs to keep pace with ever-faster microprocessors. To commercialize the... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Commercialization; Competition; Technology Adoption; Value; Semiconductor Industry
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      Yoffie, David B., and Deborah Freier. "Rambus Inc., 2004." Harvard Business School Case 704-500, June 2004. (Revised January 2005.)
      • 10 May 2016
      • First Look

      May 10, 2016

      last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel

        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
        • 2013
        • Working Paper

        The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards

        By: Abigail M. Allen, Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
        We examine how the tightening of the U.S. auditing oligopoly over the last twenty-five years—from the Big 8 to the Big 6, the Big 5, and, then, the Big 4—has affected the incentives of the Big N, as manifest in their lobbying preferences on accounting standards. We... View Details
        Keywords: Standards; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry; United States
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        Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury. "The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-054, December 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
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        Dawn Matsumoto's research investigates managers' financial reporting decisions including the incentives driving these decisions and the impact of these decisions on capital market participants. She is interested in the role of financial intermediaries (such as... View Details
        • 21 Sep 2017
        • HBS Seminar

        Nicholas Argyres, Washington University in St Louis

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