Publications

Educators

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

17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

global competition and efficient markets. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407022 Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

of the cadaver trade somewhat skirt this taboo. Indeed, the law basically says cadavers cannot be bought and sold; however, the services surrounding their procurement can be reimbursed. More precisely, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

Article

Does Legal Enforcement Affect Financial Transactions?: The Contractual Channel in Private Equity

By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar

Keywords: Law Enforcement; Finance; Contracts; Private Equity

18 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How Brand China Can Succeed

investors grows apace, there is just not enough preexisting brand equity among the world's consumers to inoculate Brand China against the current tide of negative publicity. What should China do? First, the central government must ensure that manufacturing quality... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 3, 2016
Guest Column

The Power of C.E.O. Activism: How Politically Outspoken Executives Sway Public (and Consumer) Opinion

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

Some CEOs are making news by taking public stances on controversial social issues largely unrelated to their core business. This article summarizes the insights from our research paper that shows that such "CEO activism" can influence public opinion and consumer... View Details

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December 2012 (Revised May 2012)
Supplement

Konys, Inc. (CW)

By: Deishin Lee and Tunay Tunca

Keywords: Supply Chain; Option Contract; Uncertainty; Sourcing; Supplier Relationship; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Supply Chain Management

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

against price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 1989 (Revised April 1991)
Case

General Electric: Valley Forge (A)

By: Robert L. Simons

A series of eight vignette cases designed to be taught in one classroom session. This case describes a potential problem in the way that General Electric has billed the government under a large defense contract. Designed to allow students to discuss what actions top... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Contracts; Policy; Accounting; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Industrial Products Industry

October 1987 (Revised October 1998)
Case

CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)

Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment contracts, technology licenses, antitrust, trade secrets, and confidential information. Provides a good opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Human Resources; Contracts; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Intellectual Property; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Startups; Monopoly

Educators

25 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Standard-Essential Patents

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Jean Tirole; Legal Services

Article

Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property

By: Tracy R. Lewis and Dennis A. Yao

Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp. 577-582. View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Law Enforcement

2014
Working Paper

Hidden Substitutes

By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers

In this paper, we show that preferences exhibiting some forms of complementarity in fact have an underlying substitutable structure. Specifically, we show that some preferences that are not substitutable in the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts become... View Details

Keywords: Many-to-One Matching; Many-to-Many Matching; Stability; Substitutes; Matching With Contracts; Slot-Specific Priorities; Sherlock; Market Design; Contracts; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability

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Article

The Learning Effects of Monitoring

By: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez

This paper investigates the relationship between monitoring, decision making, and learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Business or Company Management; Decision Making; Employees; Research; Resignation and Termination; Rights; Business Units; Governance Controls; Performance; Motivation and Incentives

April–May 2005
Article

Markets for Partially-Contractible Knowledge: Bootstrapping Versus Bundling

By: James J Anton and Dennis A. Yao

We discuss how a seller can appropriate rents when selling knowledge that lacks legal property rights by solving either an expropriation or a valuation problem and then analyze how seller rents increase when a portion of the intellectual property (IP) can be protected.... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge; Markets; Rights; Valuation; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Intellectual Property; Strategy

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December 2001
Case

Natural Pork Production

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle

An entrepreneurial hog farmer's creative use of contracts and capital structure drives very successful growth and returns in a depressed commodity industry. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Futures and Commodity Futures; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Goods and Commodities; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Contracts; Success; Consumer Products Industry