Publications

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Second, the emphasis on local laws as being all-important may be misplaced given the large role of foreign investment in emerging economies and the ability of these investors to avail themselves of nonlocal... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

stress frequently, but it's a hard thing to teach in a classroom. Each year, thousands of business school students enroll in courses on finance. Their sights set on a career in money management, they dutifully study theories such as the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

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

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

laws the government uses to enforce their whims and desires...For Microsoft to treat such a system of non-objective law with disdain ... and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

the new laws more easily, while Airbnb sought to protect user privacy. For Airbnb, privacy, precedents, and platform principles were at stake. For Amsterdam, it was a matter of making sure that the historic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2008 (Revised June 2012)
Background Note

ADR Choices

By: Michael Wheeler, James Sebenius and Marjorie Aaron

Six different business disputes, all in the shadow of pending litigation, are described. Students are asked to recommend the appropriate method of dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration, mini-trial, etc.) for each one, depending on the circumstances, especially to... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Managerial Roles; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

March 2010
Teaching Note

Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged) (TN)

Teaching Note for [810114]. View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Venture Capital; Lawfulness; Attorney and Client Relationships; Employees; Resignation and Termination

October 1980 (Revised October 1981)
Case

Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (A1)

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Law

November 1981 (Revised January 1983)
Case

Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (B)

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Law

July 1999 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (F)

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

July 1999
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (C)

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

July 1999 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (B)

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

February 2002
Background Note

States vs. Microsoft, The

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris

Although the federal Justice Department managed to settle its massive antitrust litigation against Microsoft in 2001, the state suit against the company continued. State attorney generals, perhaps emboldened by their recent victory over the Big Five tobacco companies,... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Public Ownership; Private Ownership; Negotiation Deal; Goals and Objectives; Lawsuits and Litigation; Decision Making; Information Industry; Legal Services Industry

January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
Case

Avalon Information Services, Inc.

By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White

The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Safety; Demand and Consumers; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Ethics; Information Industry