Publications
Publications
- July 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- HBS Case Collection
Deception in Business: A Legal Perspective
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Abstract
Discusses several of the most important prohibitions on deception found in U.S. law, starting with the basic elements of liability for fraud and moving to important antifraud provisions in federal statutes, restrictions on "misrepresentation" in consumer and contract law, deceptive nondisclosure, and forms of sales "puffery" that are not legally actionable.
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Citation
Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher Bruner. "Deception in Business: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-019, July 2005. (Revised August 2006.)