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- 01 Mar 2024
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Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist”... View Details
- May 2010
- Article
Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008
By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta
Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States
Subramanian, Guhan, Steven Herscovici, and Brian Barbetta. "Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008." Business Lawyer 65, no. 3 (May 2010): 685–752. (Selected by academics as one of the “top ten” articles in corporate/securities law for 2010, out of 447 articles published in that year.)
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
decade, Jakurski and a colleague decided to strike out on their own to form a brokerage firm. "We started with an investment of about $600,000," he says of the origins of Banco Pactual. "Money markets were... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
The study, titled The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty, appeared in View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Debora Lehrer
in which I think I will thrive. What are you most looking forward to in your career? I am looking forward to having a successful career in the... View Details
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Search Funds
operating conditions and more. American City Business Journals can provide information about the number and types of companies in a given city. Factiva and Business Source Complete can be View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
earnings or book value have outperformed higher-valued growth stocks for much of the last 100 years, providing a tailwind for value investors. But, for much of the last decade, large growth stocks have... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
scientists over 50 years ago — business is vital. Managers have a key role to play in confronting climate change in the market sectors View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
behavior. In fact, the code responsible for creating many consumer electronics is widely available and is often used as a springboard for developers to further innovate,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
capacity can also mean serious difficulties for companies in afflicted markets and can bring with it - as the current global downturn reminds us... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Patent search: license agreement
clear question of patent law is at issue. That said, there is no perfect place to search for patent license agreement data in the US. However, you may try the following... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Club in Kresge Hall, a space where faculty can gather for lunch. Flanking the Commons are three seminar rooms used by faculty and doctoral students. View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
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Dean’s House | About
Baker Library to allow room for future structures. HBS Deans lived at the house until 1980, when it came to be used primarily for social functions. Dean Nitin Nohria revived View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
applies road rules to extreme “driverless dilemmas,” and more on how it can make decisions in everyday cases that lie on the edge of hard-and-fast driving rules. “Human drivers take a test, and we then... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details