Publications

January 1984 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Elliotts, Inc. vs. Commissioner

By: Henry B. Reiling

Keywords: Courts and Trials

January 2006 (Revised May 2007)
Supplement

Endo Pharmaceuticals (E): Judge Stein Rules

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Pharmaceutical Industry

Article

The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

By: Josh Lerner and Jenny Lanjouw

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Rights

Article

Prepare Your Company for Global Pricing

By: Das Narayandas, John Quelch and Gordon Swartz

Keywords: Price; Contracts

2002
Other Unpublished Work

Relational Contracts in Strategic Alliances

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Keywords: Contracts; Alliances

November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Community-First Public Safety

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta

How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details

Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul

Educators

April 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

BitTorrent

Involves the copyright issues associated with Bram Cohen's revolutionary software program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is... View Details

Keywords: Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Applications and Software; Copyright; Internet and the Web

Educators

March 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Teaching Note

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Lucy White and Carsten Bienz

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buyout; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

February 2014 (Revised October 2014)
Case

ISS A/S: The Buyout

By: Clayton Rose, Carsten Bienz and Lucy White

Provides the opportunity to value a leveraged buy-out; and to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders. Here, the context is a "going private" transaction in Europe, where the financing plan called for the addition to the... View Details

Keywords: LBO; Private Equity; Contracts; Global Business; International Business; Finance; Ethics; Law; Service Industry; Europe

Educators

July 1984 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Marketing

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Marketing; Ethics; Law

Web

4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

external law enforcement agency, unless the local law enforcement agency was the entity that made the determination that the student is missing; (2) contact anyone the student has identified as a missing... View Details

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

skills development." Other essentials for governments, Donovan said, are a willingness to privatize businesses, and to follow the rule of law "as opposed to the rule of individual parties and special interests." Another is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. The case caught the attention of Luo and Alberto Galasso, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, who have together looked at the impact of changes in liability View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

or Both?," forthcoming in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, HBS associate professor David A. Moss and his former research associate, Gibbs A. Johnson, cast doubt on this strategy. They attribute the rise of consumer bankruptcy... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Web

Curriculum | MBA

Curriculum JD / MBA The JD/MBA is a four-year program that offers the core curricula of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA and Harvard Law School (HLS) JD with a wide range of elective options at both schools. In the first two years of... View Details

Web

JD/MBA | MBA

JD/MBA Joint degree with Harvard Law School The JD/MBA offered by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Harvard Business School (HBS) is the oldest MBA joint degree program at Harvard. Structured to be completed in... View Details

13 May 2019
Working Paper Summaries

The Changing Landscape of Auditor Litigation and Its Implications for Audit Quality

Keywords: by Colleen Honigsberg, Shivaram Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan; Accounting; Legal Services

Article

Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement

By: Lucy White and Mark Williams

The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows 'cooperative' implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot... View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Body of Literature; Contracts; Motivation and Incentives; Code Law; Game Theory