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  • December 2017
  • Supplement

Piracy in Somalia (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Piracy; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Somalia
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  • December 2017
  • Case

Piracy in Somalia (A)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Alissa Davies
A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel or join a nearby pirate crew? His war-ravaged country, entering its 20th year of civil war, was in the midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds... View Details
Keywords: Pirates; Foreign Aid; Civil War; Private Property; Human Rights; Economic Development; Globalization; War; Property; Crime and Corruption; Rights; Development Economics; Moral Sensibility; Shipping Industry; Somalia
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  • February 2018
  • Teaching Note

Piracy in Somalia (A) and (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 718-018 and 718-019. View Details
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  • October 2010 (Revised May 2012)
  • Background Note

Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation

By: Willy C. Shih
This background reading looks at reverse engineering in the context of piracy and knock-offs in emerging markets like China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Learning; Engineering; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Emerging Markets; China; United States
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  • December 2016
  • Article

The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales, Revisited

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf
Even as we approach the twentieth anniversary of widespread file sharing, its impact on the sale of copyrighted material remains in dispute. We contributed to this debate with an early study, “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” that was... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Copyright; Sales; Retail Industry; Music Industry
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  • June 2017
  • Case

AKB48: Going Global? (A)

By: Juan Alcácer, Kotaro Sasamoto, Tee Chayakul and Mayuka Yamazaki
After a remarkable success in Japan, the producer of the Japanese female singing group AKB48 evaluates market opportunities overseas for his artistic creation. This case introduces the business model behind the AKB48 concept and allows students to identify what... View Details
Keywords: Brand Building; Brand Extension; Culture-based Products; Global Products; Differentiation; Intellectual Property; International Business; Local Products; Strategy; Value Capture; Market Entry and Exit; Music Entertainment; Business Model; Global Strategy; Global Range; Brands and Branding; Value Creation; Expansion; Music Industry; Japan; China; Indonesia; Taiwan; Philippines; Thailand; South Korea
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  • May 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Music Downloads

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the competition between competing music formats. In the '90s, the MP3 format challenged the traditional means of music distribution by allowing for storage of near CD-quality recordings at 1/10th of their previous size. The threat to traditional distribution... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Music Entertainment; Legal Liability; Distribution; Competition; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry
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  • 22 Oct 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

piracy strategically to improve its market position? From a managerial perspective, these are significant questions. If it turns out that OSS will incontestably displace traditional software, software firms need to adapt as quickly as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

Universal that produce and distribute movies. More and more, fears of piracy impact decisions that industry executives make regarding release strategies. However, a different picture emerges for theatrical exhibitors such as AMC or Regal.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 17 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

governance and management and citing examples of executives' tendency to avoid reality when times get tough. Maritime Piracy by Robert Haywood (MBA 1977, DBA 1979) and Roberta Spivak (Routledge) After summarizing the historical... View Details
Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518077 Harvard Business School Case 718-018 Piracy in Somalia (A) A Somali fisherman stands on a beach in early 2011, considering his options: should he embark in his tiny fishing vessel or join a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

In each case, she noted, contemporary reactions to the new frontier followed a similar pattern. The commercial opportunity attracts pioneers, some of whom resort to piracy to seize their claims. This leads to the assumption that... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Sep 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

the problem can be curtailed if studios adopt a multipart strategy. Key concepts include: Despite a thriving movie industry in India, Hollywood studios have experienced difficulty making much money there. Researchers discovered a complicated mix of View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

businesses. Consider, for example, the debate about Napster, the online service for sharing digital and music files. Napster triggered a firestorm of outrage in the music industry about piracy of music. The Recording Industry Association... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. Those were the counterintuitive findings released in March by Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

watching the Information Revolution unfold, I was impressed by the sheer number and variety of new goods and services being brought to market.— Nancy F. Koehn Finally, I heard a presentation on piracy in the 16th century--something that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

concern over piracy has been blown out of proportion." Still, Sviokla sees major challenges ahead for record labels. "They had better get busy understanding how they're going to police their intellectual property rights in a digital... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

if any, should be made to adapt to a chosen market. Given high levels of piracy in the music industry, students are not only able to explore the value creation aspects of AKB48, but also the value-capture features of its business model.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne