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  • April 1975 (Revised December 1975)
  • Case

Sorensen Chevrolet File, The

Concerns the settlement of an automobile insurance claim. A woman, blinded in an accident, alleges that approximate cause of the accident was failure by Sorensen Chevrolet to connect the left headlight of her car. The student is asked for a strategy for settling the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation; Insurance; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Insurance Industry; Auto Industry
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Hammond, John S. "Sorensen Chevrolet File, The ." Harvard Business School Case 175-258, April 1975. (Revised December 1975.)
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The Information Content of Litigation Participation Securities: The Case of CalFed Bancorp

By: B. C. Esty
Keywords: Information; Lawsuits and Litigation; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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Esty, B. C. "The Information Content of Litigation Participation Securities: The Case of CalFed Bancorp." Journal of Financial Economics 60, nos. 2-3 (May 2001): 371–399.
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Tort Reform and Innovation

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Tort Reform and Innovation." Working Paper, August 2017. (Accepted for publication in Journal of Law and Economics.)
  • July 1999 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (D)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry
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Lorsch, Jay W., and Katharina Pick. "Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Case 400-005, July 1999. (Revised October 2001.)
  • April 2010
  • Teaching Note

Carrot or Stick? Getting Paid for Innovation at Tessera Technologies (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610085. View Details
Keywords: Patents; Production; Situation or Environment; Law Enforcement; Lawsuits and Litigation; Information Technology; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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Shih, Willy C. "Carrot or Stick? Getting Paid for Innovation at Tessera Technologies (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 610-094, April 2010.
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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Lerner, Josh, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker, and Ann Leamon. "Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-068, December 2015.
  • March 22, 2024
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It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse Shapiro
Keywords: Social Media; Lawsuits and Litigation; Information Publishing; Policy
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Kominers, Scott Duke, and Jesse Shapiro. "It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem." The Atlantic (website) (March 22, 2024).
  • 13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

chance of being targeted by NPE litigation. We find moreover that NPEs target cash unrelated to the alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash related to the alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual... View Details
  • May 2014 (Revised June 2016)
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Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals—courseware

By: Lucy White
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake
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White, Lucy. "Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals—courseware." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 214-709, May 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
  • February 2014 (Revised June 2016)
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Mylan Laboratories' Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical

By: Lucy White and Matt Kozlowski
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake
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White, Lucy, and Matt Kozlowski. "Mylan Laboratories' Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical." Harvard Business School Case 214-078, February 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

argued, the company was "involved in every aspect of the operation"-from how many rides drivers had to accept in an hour to how they had to interact with customers. Two separate class-action lawsuits against Uber and Lyft are still... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
  • February 2018
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Patent Trolling

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers and George Hou
The U.S. Intellectual Property (IP) Ecosystem is one of the most robust and dynamic in the world—and has been for centuries. The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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Cohen, Lauren H., Umit G. Gurun, Scott Duke Kominers, and George Hou. "Patent Trolling." Harvard Business School Background Note 218-085, February 2018.
  • July 2005
  • Teaching Note

Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-Era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations (TN)

By: Geoffrey G. Jones
Teaching Note to (9-804-027). View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Globalized Firms and Management; South Africa
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Jones, Geoffrey G. "Multinational Corporations in Apartheid-Era South Africa: The Issue of Reparations (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 806-034, July 2005.
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

pick up passengers with disabilities. “Suddenly entrepreneurship is not about who can build a better mousetrap, but who can better ignore the law and develop a corporate advantage for ignoring the law” Consider Uber, which is involved in more than 150 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

average value. (Contests) allow me to find the extreme value.” Curbing the patent trolls Another research presentation focused on the adverse effects around patent litigation, which has increased sharply in the last decade. In fact, 2015 saw the one of the highest... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • February 2025 (Revised February 2025)
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What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire

By: Lauren Cohen, Mayra Gazel and Sophia Pan
As Lachlan Murdoch left the courthouse, he puzzled on the next phase of his battle for control over his father Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. With Rupert aging and his siblings determined to retain their voting rights, Lachlan was convinced that the future of News... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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Cohen, Lauren, Mayra Gazel, and Sophia Pan. "What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire." Harvard Business School Case 225-085, February 2025. (Revised February 2025.)
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how protests and boycotts drag companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

fraud and other violations by both the U.S. Attorney's office and the SEC. The Board was faced with the resignation of the founder and chairman, management succession issues, the failed merger with Cerberus, and the lawsuit in Delaware.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Unix and threatened Linux users with lawsuits over infringement of those rights unless they agree to pay substantial licensing fees. IBM, which was one of the prime corporate sponsors of Linux as well as the target of a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

system in biotech. Parties entering into agreements bring different levels of information, causing valuation problems and high governance costs. IP rights are also tricky. The lawsuits that crop up in biotech are usually about IP, said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
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