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- 16 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Auditing Oligopoly and Lobbying on Accounting Standards
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
payments in the remaining months. Concerns about later-life income, spending flexibility, and counterparty risk are the most important self-reported motives that influence the annuitization decision. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
jointly underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain's Financial Services Authority has announced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks...
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- 2024
- Book
Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.
Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
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Subramanian, Guhan, and Michael Klausner. Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions. Harvard University Press, 2024.
- 25 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Standard-Essential Patents
- December 2008 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Clutch Group - Should Abhi Shah Grab This Opportunity?
By: Daniel J. Isenberg
Abhi Shah ('06) co-founding CEO of Clutch Group in the US and Bangalore, must decide whether to risk a law suit by recruiting an entire legal services team from a large US corporation. His decision and how he implements it will have a dramatic impact on the legal...
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Decisions;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business Startups;
Legal Services Industry;
Bangalore;
United States
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Clutch Group - Should Abhi Shah Grab This Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 809-065, December 2008. (Revised March 2017.)
- 13 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Intermediaries for the IP Market
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by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
- 29 Nov 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers, deadweight losses, and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and...
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Management Teams;
Reputation;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Crisis Management;
Accounting Audits;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk Management;
Finance;
Managerial Roles;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Service Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Aldo Sesia. "The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 111-035, May 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
- December 2007 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience
By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman
Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming from the firm's sale of tax shelters. In 2005 Tim Flynn has been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of...
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Accounting Audits;
Crime and Corruption;
Taxation;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Crisis Management;
Partners and Partnerships;
Accounting Industry;
Service Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Eliot Sherman. "KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience." Harvard Business School Case 408-073, December 2007. (Revised June 2009.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Tort Reform and Innovation
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model which predicts that the...
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Lawsuits and Litigation;
Laws and Statutes;
Innovation and Invention;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Tort Reform and Innovation." Working Paper, August 2017. (Accepted for publication in Journal of Law and Economics.)
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
something differently like improve their governance and change their board. The same goes for auditors. With risk of litigation there’s a deterrent effect. If you know that I can sue you then you are less...
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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online
in connection with threatened or pending litigation or claims or to enforce our contractual or other rights. To aggregate and/or de-identify your personal data so that the information can no longer be linked to you or your device. We may...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to competition. General Electric, for example, was at risk of losing many of its top customers to...
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- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
social, and governance issues at the heart of so-called “stakeholder capitalism.” Corporations that become too visible in support of stakeholder capitalism run the risk of losing public investors, such as pension funds in states in which...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
intermediaries that make typosquatting profitable, and I assess the legislation and litigation that are beginning to put a check on this practice. Download the paper: http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/misc/threat_center/...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward,...
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