Publications

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

move the black musicians from the back of the parade to the front. At UNC Chapel Hill, he and four other black students were the pioneers who first integrated the institution. At twenty-seven, he became the first black law professor at... View Details

March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh

In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details

Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Manuscript Collections Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Records, 1870–1919 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard View Details

05 Nov 2014
News

Legal Hero Launches Out of Beta to Connect Small Businesses with Top-Notch Lawyers

Keywords: Legal Services; Professional Services

Web

Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Harvard University Press, 1967. Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises , 5th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Landis, James M. “Legislative History of the Securities Act of 1933,” George Washington View Details

June 2022
Teaching Plan

Pacesetters

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-019. City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders,... View Details

Keywords: Minority-owned Businesses; Procurement; Racial Wealth Gap; Diversity; Small Business; Restructuring; Contracts; Goals and Objectives; Performance Improvement; Performance Evaluation; United States; Massachusetts

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Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Harvard Law School Library Union Pacific Museum The Washington Post Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director, Knowledge and Library Services Laura Linard, Director, Baker Library Collections, Knowledge and Library Services Supported by the de... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview SEEN AND UNSEEN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN ART, ADVERTISING, AND COMMERCE November 2022 - February... View Details

08 Jul 2014
News

Seeking "big solutions" to increase the value of nature for business and society

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is leading the World Wildlife Fund to "connect the dots" between business and societal goals to increase our perception of the value of the natural world. (Published July 2014) View Details

August 2013
Case

Harold Mills at ZeroChaos (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Maurice L. Kuykendoll II

After leading a management buy-out, Harold Mills transformed ZeroChaos into a global staffing enterprise. Poised to raise additional capital to fund the company's next phase of growth, he was also confronting the liquidity demands of his early-stage investors and... View Details

Keywords: Legal Aspects Of Business; Law; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Finance

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“ Business Teaching by the Case System ,” The American Economic Review , vol. 12, no. 1, March 1922, pp. 53-65. In this article, Donham compares the pedagogy of business and View Details

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,... View Details

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

October 2018 (Revised August 2019)
Case

Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election

By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein

Following a contentious presidential race, Donald Trump’s 2016 election destabilized America’s status quo. Academics, journalists, politicians and the public at large examined why Trump had won. Many Americans, inside and outside the government, asserted that a... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Industry; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business And Government; Business And Public Policy; Business And Society; Media Businesses; Media Content; Media Slant; Media Regulation; Internet Of Everything; Government Policy; Politics; Political Campaigns; Political Strategy; Political Turmoil; Government; Government Regulation; Security; International Business; International Relations; National Security; Political Elections; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Conflict and Resolution; Identity; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; War; Social Media; Public Administration Industry; United States; Russia

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

Guhan Subramanian

Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold... View Details

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

intersection of law and business creates a unique mindset, which allows for students to pioneer innovative research. What was the HBS interview like? The HBS interview is 30 minutes and in many interviews... View Details

Terrence Tianshuo Shi

Terrence Tianshuo Shi is a doctoral student at Harvard Business School. He was awarded the John M. Olin Research Fellowship in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School and named a Deloitte Foundation Doctoral Fellow for 2024. Prior to joining the doctoral program,... View Details

Summer 2013
Article

Strategic Management of Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach

By: William W. Fisher III and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the value of intellectual property. Functional silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Management; Strategic Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Licensing; Law; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Management; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy