Publications

Summer 2017
Article

Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments... View Details

Keywords: Copyright; Law Enforcement; Lawsuits and Litigation; Cost

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Chapter

Private Time: The Political Economy of Private Prison Finance

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Private Sector; Law Enforcement; Corporate Finance

June 1984 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Commissioner v. Duberstein

By: Henry B. Reiling

In two cases consolidated for decision, the Court articulates the tests to be used when deciding whether an item is income or a gift and therefore, not income. Both cases are colorful. The first involves the unsolicited receipt of a Cadillac. The second involves... View Details

Keywords: Law Enforcement; Decisions; Taxation

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;... View Details

August 2019
Case

Creating Accountability in Afghanistan

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu

By early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was in charge of providing accountability for U.S. aid funding. Sopko’s oversight... View Details

Keywords: Auditing; Fraud; Accountability; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Governance; Infrastructure; Information; Networks; Strategy; Afghanistan

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

December 1984 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Burnet vs. Logan

By: Henry B. Reiling

The taxpayer sold mining company stocks and was to be paid royalty as ore was extracted from the corporation's mine. Because the factual issues of whether ore would be extracted and, if so, how much and when were so indeterminate, the court held that the contract right... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Law Enforcement; Asset Management; Valuation; Policy; Mining Industry

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

disturbed that nobody had mentioned the non-compete before he accepted the job, Marx signed willingly, assuming such documents were commonplace. “It's clear that that inventors are leaving states that enforce non-competes for states that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

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Reshaping Competition

Antitrust Law by Areeda and Hovenkamp Federal Agencies: Department of Justice – Antitrust filings Department of Justice – Antitrust Division Federal Trade Commission – Enforcement overview... View Details

March 2004
Article

Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish institutions received police protection. Thus, this hideous event... View Details

Keywords: Law Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Resource Allocation; National Security

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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats | MBA

pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged. Whoever, not being a law enforcement officer, and notwithstanding any license obtained by the person pursuant... View Details

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

Some also claim that enforcing the individual mandate is not feasible, but Switzerland's 97 percent enrollment rate for its version of the individual mandate indicates that it's possible. The Swiss achieve this compliance through... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2011
Working Paper

The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova

Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Crime and Corruption; Local Range; Laws and Statutes; Law Enforcement; Gender; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; India