The world's largest companies in 2019 by market capitalization-Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon-all began as venture-backed startups.'They defied existing theory by growing …
By common account, two contrasting eras have defined largescale corporate reorganization since the Bankruptcy Code was enacted in 1978.1 For much of the Code's first twenty years …
In 2015, Etsy was a crown jewel of the movement for socially conscious business, simultaneously pursuing multiple objectives beyond profit. It successfully operated for over …
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Delaware corporate law has a new brand of loyalty claim: the opportunity-cost conflict. Such a conflict arises when a fiduciary operates under strong incentives to withdraw human and …
What are the rights of religious institutions? Should those rights extend to for-profit corporations? Houses of worship have claimed they should be free from anti-discrimination …
In 1999, Joseph Bankman and Ronald Gilson published Why Start-ups? in the Stanford Law Review.'In that essay, Bankman and Gilson argued that, in theory at least, startups should …
Venture capital (VC) markets fund the development of high-risk, high-growth technology startups. VCs must overcome acute information asymmetries when they invest. I Early-stage …
Once upon a time, a successful startup would reach a certain stage and then" go public"- selling securities to ordinary investors, perhaps listing on a national stock exchange, and …
In June of 2014, the board of directors of Demoulas Supermarkets, Inc.-better known as Market Basket, a mid-sized chain of grocery stores in New England-decided to oust the man …