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- February 2021
- Case
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A)
By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Christian Godwin
In 2015, Apple CEO Tim Cook debuted the iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance...
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Keywords:
Iphone;
Encryption;
Data Privacy;
Safety;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Mobile Technology;
Civil Society Or Community;
National Security;
Leadership;
Customers;
Customer Focus And Relationships;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Values And Beliefs;
Globalized Firms And Management;
Government And Politics;
National Security;
law;
law Enforcement;
Leadership;
Markets;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Technology;
Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States;
China;
Hong Kong
- February 2021
- Article
The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-Initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Hari Ramasubramanian
We examine drivers and consequences of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of whistleblower cases of corporate fraud against the government. We find that the DOJ is more likely to intervene in and conduct longer investigations of cases that have a higher chance...
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Keywords:
Whistleblowing;
Department Of Justice;
Doj Enforcement;
Performance Measures;
False Claims Act;
Crime And Corruption;
Governance Compliance;
law Enforcement
Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Hari Ramasubramanian. "The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-Initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences." Journal of Accounting & Economics 71, no. 1 (February 2021).
- January 2021
- Case
Cinépolis
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Fernanda Miguel
Two weeks after Cinepolis released a documentary film about corruption, a judge ordered its provisional suspension, claiming it had to be edited before it continued to be shown, against Mexican cinematography laws. Cinépolis, Latin America’s largest movie theater chain...
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Keywords:
Movies;
Entertainment;
Corruption;
Risk Assessment;
Communication Strategy;
Crime And Corruption;
Decision Making;
Film Entertainment;
Ethics;
Leadership;
Risk Management;
Entertainment And Recreation Industry;
Motion Pictures And Video Industry;
Mexico;
Latin America;
North And Central America
Margolis, Joshua D., and Fernanda Miguel. "Cinépolis." Harvard Business School Case 421-053, January 2021.
- January 2021
- Case
Dick's Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)
By: George A Riedel
Dick's Sporting Goods was one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and specifically following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack, the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading...
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- January 2021
- Article
Chain Stability in Trading Networks
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and...
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Keywords:
Matching;
Trading Networks;
Chain Stability;
Stability;
Competitive Equilibria;
Full Substitutability;
Laws Of Aggregate Supply And Demand;
Contracts;
Market Design;
Balance And Stability
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp. "Chain Stability in Trading Networks." Theoretical Economics 16, no. 1 (January 2021): 197–234.
- 15 Dec 2020
- Panel Discussion
Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects
By: Maya Zinshstein, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil and James K. Sebenius
Sponsored by Harvard's Program on Negotiation, I moderated and contributed to a discussion of the film "Til Kingdom Come" among the film's director, producer, and a renowned scholar.
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Zinshstein, Maya, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil, and James K. Sebenius. "Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, December 15, 2020.
- Article
Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke and Jörg F. Debatin
A new law will make it easier to introduce and determine the benefits of new tools. Perhaps its most important provisions are its formalization of “prescribable applications,” which include standard software, SaaS, and mobile as well as browser-based apps, and the...
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Keywords:
Health Care And Treatment;
Transformation;
Online Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Germany
Stern, Ariel Dora, Henrik Matthies, Julia Hagen, Jan B. Brönneke, and Jörg F. Debatin. "Want to See the Future of Digital Health Tools? Look to Germany." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2020).
- December 2020
- Case
France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring
These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devasting impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."
This case series follows the evolution of France Telecom... View Details
This case series follows the evolution of France Telecom... View Details
Keywords:
Health & Wellness;
Human Resource Management;
Strategic Change;
Leadership & Corporate Accountability;
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Change;
Restructuring;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor;
Labor And Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides
In the B case we learn that at least 19 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2006 and 2009, 12 others attempted suicide, and eight suffered from serious depression for reasons reportedly related to work. Some of these deaths occurred in public places,...
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Keywords:
Change;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor And Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial
In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December...
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Keywords:
Human Behavior;
Human Dignity;
Human Resource Practices;
Corporate Change And Sustainability;
Corporate Culture;
Strategic Corporate Decisions;
Strategic Change;
Strategic Decision Making;
Emotion;
Management Challenges;
Management Practices And Processes;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Crisis Management;
law;
Courts And Trials;
Labor;
Labor And Management Relations;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
Europe;
European Union
- November 2020
- Case
Community-First Public Safety
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short...
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Keywords:
Race;
law Enforcement;
Governance;
Decision Making;
Public Administration Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Financing the Litigation Arms Race
By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
Using a continuous-time model of litigation, we show that the increasingly popular practice of third-party litigation financing has ambiguous welfare implications. A defendant and a plaintiff bargain over a settlement payment. The defendant takes costly actions to...
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Keywords:
Litigation Financing;
Dynamic Bargaining;
Real Options;
law;
Finance;
Lawsuits And Litigation
Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Financing the Litigation Arms Race." Working Paper, November 2020.
- October 27, 2020
- Blog Post
Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (October 27, 2020). https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/27/short-termism-shareholder-payouts-and-investment-in-the-eu/.
- Fall 2020
- Article
Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from...
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa." Negotiation Journal 36, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 471–487.
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,...
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Keywords:
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Startup;
Teams;
Pivot;
Financing;
Entrepreneurship;
law;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Financing And Loans;
Business Model;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Legal Services Industry;
Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish." Harvard Business School Case 821-027, September 2020.
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines issues such as cascading problems within the organization, changing founder roles, founder success criteria, as well as company exit consideration. In 2017, Dr. Torben Antretter, a former competitive tennis player and academic researcher, founded...
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Keywords:
Exit;
Startup;
Financing;
Founders;
Entrepreneurship;
law;
Venture Capital;
Success;
Financing And Loans;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Strategy;
Legal Services Industry;
Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King." Harvard Business School Case 821-028, September 2020.
- September 2020
- Case
Uber at a Crossroads (2017)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Model;
Customer Satisfaction;
Fairness;
Values And Beliefs;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Investment;
Government Legislation;
Business History;
Compensation And Benefits;
Resignation And Termination;
Employment;
Wages;
lawfulness;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Style;
Market Entry And Exit;
Two-sided Platforms;
Product Design;
Organizational Culture;
Problems And Challenges;
Attitudes;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Transportation Networks;
Mobile Technology;
Technology Platform;
Valuation;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
- September 2020
- Article
Regulatory Sandboxes: A Cure for mHealth Pilotitis?
By: Abhishek Bhatia, Rahul Matthan, Tarun Khanna and Satchit Balsari
Mobile health (mHealth) and related digital health interventions in the past decade have not always scaled globally as anticipated earlier despite large investments by governments and philanthropic foundations. The implementation of digital health tools has suffered...
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Keywords:
Covid-19;
Mhealth;
Digital Health;
Design Thinking;
Regulation;
Intervention;
Regulatory Sandbox;
Health Care And Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Design;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
India
Bhatia, Abhishek, Rahul Matthan, Tarun Khanna, and Satchit Balsari. "Regulatory Sandboxes: A Cure for mHealth Pilotitis?" Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 9 (September 2020).
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Uber: Competing Globally
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404.
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Business Model;
Geography;
Geographic Location;
Geographic Scope;
Global Strategy;
Globalization;
Multinational Firms And Management;
Globalized Markets And Industries;
Governance;
Governance Controls;
Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
Innovation And Invention;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
law;
Management;
Growth And Development;
Growth Management;
Markets;
Demand And Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Network Effects;
Emerging Markets;
Market Design;
Market Entry And Exit;
Market Participation;
Supply And Industry;
Industry Structures;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Relationships;
Business And Community Relations;
Business And Government Relations;
Business And Stakeholder Relations;
Labor And Management Relations;
Networks;
Adaptation;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Technology;
Mobile Technology;
Technology Platform;
Transportation Networks;
Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
Africa;
Ghana;
Asia;
China;
Shanghai;
Shanghai Shi;
India;
New Delhi;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
London;
England;
Latin America;
North And Central America;
United States;
New York (city, Ny);
New York (state, Us);
South America;
Colombia
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