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- Faculty Publications (120)
- 23 Jun 2019
- News
5 Lessons From Microsoft’s Antitrust Woes, by People Who Lived It
- July 2016
- Case
The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its customers were approached by competitors while regulatory...
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Keywords:
Law;
Antitrust;
EC Regulation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Laws and Statutes;
Monopoly;
Business and Government Relations
Goldberg, Lena G. "The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun (A)." Harvard Business School Case 317-009, July 2016.
- March 9, 2021
- Article
Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny
This Viewpoint proposes three steps the Biden administration can take to slow consolidation within health care, which has been shown to raise costs without improving service or quality: better fund federal antitrust enforcement agencies; appoint agency heads committed...
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Keywords:
Antitrust Issues And Policies;
Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Consolidation;
Competition;
Government Administration
Dafny, Leemore S. "Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 325, no. 10 (March 9, 2021): 927–928.
- October 18, 2021
- Article
To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data
By: Chiara Farronato and Daniel Björkegren
Historically, antitrust authorities have taken a laissez-faire approach under the assumption that it is better to err on the side of not intervening when there is uncertainty. This has allowed companies like Google and Facebook to go on a shopping spree to acquire...
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Keywords:
Antitrust Issues And Policies;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology Industry
Farronato, Chiara, and Daniel Björkegren. "To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 18, 2021).
- September 2001
- Background Note
Note on Application of the Antitrust Laws to the New Economy: An Analysis of United States v. Microsoft Corporation
Analyzes the 1991 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the seminal New Economy antitrust case United States vs. Microsoft Corp., 253 F.3rd 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), which arose out of Microsoft's efforts to promote Internet Explorer...
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Keywords:
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Software;
Intellectual Property;
Monopoly;
Laws and Statutes;
Information Technology Industry;
District of Columbia
Bagley, Constance E. "Note on Application of the Antitrust Laws to the New Economy: An Analysis of United States v. Microsoft Corporation." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-090, September 2001.
- 26 Oct 2017 - 29 Oct 2017
- Conference Presentation
Reconfiguring Competition: Corporate Law, Democratic Dissent, and the Creation of State Antitrust Law
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
- 2019
- Working Paper
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholars have long recognized that the states’ authority to charter corporations bolstered their antitrust powers in ways that were not available to the federal government. But they have also argued that the growth of large-scale enterprises operating in national and...
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Keywords:
Voting Trusts;
Antitrust;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
History;
United States
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Laura Phillips Sawyer. "Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-109, May 2019.
- 03 Jun 2018
- HBS Conference
New Perspectives on U.S. Regulatory History: Past and Present of Public Utilities and Antitrust Law
- March 2005
- Teaching Note
Antitrust Regulations in a Global Setting: The EU Investigation of the GE/Honeywell Merger (TN)
By: Mihir A. Desai and Belen Villalonga
Teaching Note to (9-204-081).
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- June 2015
- Article
Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling?
By: Benjamin Edelman
I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the...
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Keywords:
Competition;
Antitrust;
Google;
Tying;
Bundling;
Competitive Strategy;
Search Technology;
Law;
Information Technology Industry;
Advertising Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling?" Journal of Competition Law & Economics 11, no. 2 (June 2015): 365–400.
- 1 Jun 2016 - 4 Jun 2016
- Conference Presentation
Public and Private State-Building: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Public and Private State-Building: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State." Paper presented at the Policy History Conference, Institute for Political History, Nashville, TN, June 1–4, 2016.
- 5 Oct 2018
- Other Presentation
Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
- Mar 2018
- Conference Presentation
Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
- Jun 2018
- Conference Presentation
Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: N. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
- 24 Jun 2015 - 27 Jun 2015
- Conference Presentation
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and State-Building: Trade Associations, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State, 1912-1925
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and State-Building: Trade Associations, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State, 1912-1925." Paper presented at the Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, June 24–27, 2015.
- March 2023
- Article
Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries
By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.
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Keywords:
Antitrust;
Antitrust Law;
Antitrust Theory;
Law And Economics;
Collusion;
Collaboration;
Collaborative Industries;
Regulation;
"Repeated Games";
IPOs;
Initial Public Offerings;
Underwriters;
Real Estate;
Real Estate Agents;
Realtors;
Syndicated Markets;
Syndication;
Brokers;
Market Concentration;
Competition;
Law;
Economics;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Game Theory;
Initial Public Offering
Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries." Iowa Law Review 108, no. 3 (March 2023): 1089–1148.
- Winter 2017
- Article
Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play
By: Benjamin Edelman
I present Google practices that have raised objections from competition regulators. I consider the key impediments to competition and examine the business models foreclosed by Google's restrictions.
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Keywords:
Antitrust;
Mobile;
Mobile Technology;
Search Technology;
Technology Platform;
Contracts;
Lawfulness;
Competition;
Information Technology Industry;
European Union;
Russia;
South Korea
Edelman, Benjamin. "Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play." Antitrust Chronicle (Winter 2017).
- March 2017
- Article
Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM
By: Alexander MacKay and David A. Smith
This article discusses the empirical challenges that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and methodology. We...
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Keywords:
Antitrust Issues And Policies;
Antitrust Law;
Resale Price Maintenance;
Welfare Economics;
Price;
Competition;
Research
MacKay, Alexander, and David A. Smith. "Challenges for Empirical Research on RPM." Review of Industrial Organization 50, no. 2 (March 2017): 209–220.