Publications

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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

December 2009
Article

Who Owns Metrics?: Building a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers

By: Benjamin Edelman

I offer five rights to protect advertisers from increasingly powerful ad networks-avoiding fraudulent charges for services not rendered, guaranteeing data portability so advertisers get the best possible value, and assuring price transparency so advertisers know what... View Details

Keywords: Online Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Price; Measurement and Metrics; Technology Networks; Value; Advertising Industry

April 2013 (Revised June 2016)
Case

AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer

Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details

Keywords: Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Property; Insurance Industry; United States

December 2010
Supplement

Ad Classification at Right Media — pre-class slides — supplement

By: Benjamin Edelman

Right Media considers systems and policies to make sure that ads are only shown on web sites where they are appropriate, and vice versa. Setting standards is particularly challenging given the large and growing marketplace, the numerous participants, their diverse... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Market Participation; Negotiation Tactics; Marketing Communications; Communication; Media; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

November 2022
Case

Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights

By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez

The case presents the founding vision and early days of a young startup that seeks to empower delivery drivers with tools and transparency. The company's flagship mobile app has been taken up by tens of thousands of delivery drivers across major U.S. cities who use it... View Details

Keywords: Gig Workers; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; San Francisco

Article

Finding the Right Job for your Product

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Gerald N. Berstell and Denise Nitterhouse

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Product

Article

The Right Amount of Assets under Management

By: André Perold and Robert S. Salomon Jr.

Keywords: Assets

August 3, 2004
Article

Negotiation: The Right Set-up Makes a Deal

By: James Sebenius and David Lax

Keywords: Negotiation

2000
Chapter

Is Management Consulting the Right Career—For You?

By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Management Systems; Consulting Industry

15 Jan 2011
News

Revisiting the rights and responsibilities of business

05 Mar 2025
News

The Right Way to Make Data-Driven Decisions

28 Jan 2021
News

To Maximize Donations, Emphasize Needs, Not Rights

22 Jan 2022
News

Joe Biden’s voting rights push is futile

2016
Working Paper

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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February 2010
Case

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

Blog

Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?

flexible, so you can choose programs that are most meaningful for your business and your role. This enables you to create the specific learning path that is right for you. Brahma Vella receiving his Digital Transformation Certificate from... View Details

September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Rockwood Equity: Choosing the Right Debt Package

By: Victoria Ivashina, Terrence Shu and Alys Ferragamo

September 1993
Supplement

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

ALZA, a drug delivery company, must decide what and for whom to manufacture. In the past, it has licensed to pharmaceutical companies its patented system for the slow release of drugs into the human system. Therefore the company has little experience in choice of drug... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Patents; Production; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry