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      Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law

      By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green
      The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Law
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      Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.
      • 1990
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      Social Influences on Creativity: Evaluation, Coaction, and Surveillance

      By: T. M. Amabile, P. Goldfarb and S. C. Brackfield
      Two experiments examined the effects of evaluation expectation and the presence of others on creativity. In both experiments, some subjects expected that their work would be evaluated by experts, and others expected no evaluation. Evaluation expectation was crossed, in... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation
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      Amabile, T. M., P. Goldfarb, and S. C. Brackfield. "Social Influences on Creativity: Evaluation, Coaction, and Surveillance." Creativity Research Journal 3 (1990): 6–21.
      • December 1989
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      Note on How Organizations Can be Structured

      By: D. Q. Mills
      Describes four basic organizational forms--hierarchy, division, matrix, and cluster. Diagrams of each are included. Their strengths and weaknesses under different business environment conditions are detailed. There is a table comparing the forms on several key... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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      Mills, D. Q. "Note on How Organizations Can be Structured." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-040, December 1989.
      • September 1987
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      What Do Venture Capitalists Do?

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Presents the results derived from 49 responses to a questionnaire mailed to 100 venture capitalists in late 1984. The purpose of the survey was to shed light on the relationship between venture capitalists and their portfolio companies. The survey revealed that the... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Recruitment; Surveys; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Relationships; Service Industry
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      Sahlman, William A. "What Do Venture Capitalists Do?" Harvard Business School Background Note 288-015, September 1987.
      • August 1977
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      Weak Versus Strong Domination in a Market with Indivisible Goods

      By: A. E. Roth and A. Postlewaite
      Keywords: Markets; Goods and Commodities
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      Roth, A. E., and A. Postlewaite. "Weak Versus Strong Domination in a Market with Indivisible Goods." Journal of Mathematical Economics 4 (August 1977): 131–137.
      • 2023
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      Market Design Under Weak Institutions

      By: Benjamin N. Roth
      As market designers begin to address economic inequality, we will necessarily also begin to engage marginalized populations who have so far not been served well by the markets in which they participate. We will need new market designs for participants who may not... View Details
      Keywords: Market Design; Equality and Inequality; Trust; Emerging Markets
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      Roth, Benjamin N. "Market Design Under Weak Institutions." In More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, edited by Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
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      By: Iavor I. Bojinov
      Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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      Weak Credit Covenants

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Boris Vallée
      Using novel data on 1,240 credit agreements, we investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market. While negative covenants are widespread, carve-out and deductible clauses that qualify them are as frequent. We propose simple and comprehensive... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Loans; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Carve-out; Creditor Governance; LBO; Credit; Agreements and Arrangements; Leveraged Buyouts
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Boris Vallée. "Weak Credit Covenants." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 15, 2025.)
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