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- 05 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Buying the Verdict
Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen and Umit G. Gurun
- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls
- 28 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Channels of Influence
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
advertising that breaks down spending by age group, the researchers found that companies specifically targeted 45 to 55-year-olds—the very people most likely to serve on juries. Marketing dollars are working The bigger question is whether... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
the authors of Channels of Influence, by Harvard Business School Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
Harvard Business School; Umit G. Gurun, of University of Texas at Dallas; and Scott Duke Kominers, of the Harvard Society of Fellows, attempts to answer that question View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
argues that “the majority of this recent green patenting is not driven by highly rated ESG firms but instead by firms that are explicitly excluded from the ESG funds investment universe.” 'Blockbuster'... View Details
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
$455, above which companies must pay extra for more than 40 hours of work. Cohen conducted the research with Umit Gurun and N. Bugra Ozel, a... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
Pharmaceutical regulators around the world tend to speed through drug applications in December and before major national holidays, according to new research that might raise questions about COVID-19 vaccines View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 2020
- Working Paper
The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc H. Nguyen. "The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27990, October 2020. (Winner of the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business – PVH Corp. Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in... View Details
Keywords: Patent Trolls; NPEs; PAEs; Innovation; Patents; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Finance
Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-002, July 2014. (Revised June 2018.)
- July 2024
- Article
Buying the Verdict
By: Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun
We document evidence that firms systematically increase specialized, locally targeted advertising following the firm being taken to trial in that given location, precisely following initiation of the suit. In particular, we use legal actions brought against publicly... View Details
Cohen, Lauren, and Umit Gurun. "Buying the Verdict." Management Science 70, no. 7 (July 2024): 4167–4183.
- February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Pushing Past the Boundaries of ESG Investing: AQR Capital Management
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Richard B. Evans, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
Cliff Asness was facing a dilemma into how he would plunge his hedge fund into the hottest investment area worldwide—ESG Investing. Founder and managing principal of AQR—one the most storied quantitative hedge funds in the world—Asness knew anything less than a big... View Details
Cohen, Lauren H., Richard B. Evans, Umit G. Gurun, and Quoc H. Nguyen. "Pushing Past the Boundaries of ESG Investing: AQR Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 222-058, February 2022. (Revised April 2022.)
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810011-PDF-ENG Miracle Life Inc. Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Introduction to Short Selling Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Note 212-079 We provide a primer on the market for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112006-PDF-ENG Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), Inc.: Finding the Hidden Meaning in Corporate Disclosures Lauren H. Cohen View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne