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September 2019 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Glenn Defense Marine Asia (A)

By: Susanna Gallani, Anja Anliker, Luke Hodges and Amram Migdal

This case describes the growth of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) under the leadership of Leonard Glenn Francis. GDMA provided ship husbanding and logistical support services to the United States Navy when Navy ships visited various ports in Southeast Asia. The case... View Details

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15 May 2015
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2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

towards law school. However, as a result of this new initiative I began thinking critically about business school as a pathway. The opportunity to apply to HBS while still in college struck me as a really interesting one, especially... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Lisa Frankenberg

bureaucratic difficulties in a country where laws were in flux, Frankenberg persisted in her vision to fill the new republic's information void. "Having total support from my investor made it possible," she says gratefully. Today, the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

exert pressure on Washington to support reform, and educating the public for new laws to increase disclosure and accountability, as well as ending the pay-to-play culture in DC. J.B. Lyon (MBA 1996), founding board member New Profit is a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

15 Jan 2019
Working Paper Summaries

The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets

Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner; Banking; Financial Services

2016
Working Paper

Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim

Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details

Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender

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July 2006 (Revised July 2007)
Case

C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)

Coolidge (CKC), a chemical manufacturer, is being sued for patent infringement. The plaintiffs are the patent holder and its sole licensee, who is also a CKC competitor. An analyst at CKC has done a breakeven decision analysis from CKC's perspective, balancing going to... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Courts and Trials; Patents; Analysis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemical Industry

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Entrepreneurship: Failing Well

Most ventures fail. Most lives are built on journeys that did not get to their desired destination. How can we think about failure as a necessary part of growth and learn to fail well? View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Up for Grabs

WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September and formally declared that she wants one of the nation’s... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

10 Aug 2021

Harvard Graduate Joint Degree Virtual Event

This virtual event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are... View Details

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Ben Steiner

together two very different kinds of skills and training,” says Ben. “The Law School is a boot camp for the mind – it’s very competitive in a healthy way. You learn to dissect and probe problems in nitty-gritty detail. On the other hand,... View Details

December 2010
Article

Organizing the In-between: The Population Dynamics of Network-weaving Organizations in the Global Interstate Network

By: Paul Ingram and Magnus Thor Torfason

This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the interstate... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Organizations; Demographics; Relationships; Globalization; Economics; Conflict and Resolution; Value; Lawfulness; Competition

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2006
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The History of Corporate Ownership in China: State Patronage, Company Legislation, and the Issue of Control

By: William Goetzmann and Elisabeth Koll

Keywords: History; Governance Controls; Laws and Statutes; Ownership; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; China

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01 Mar 2004
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David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

Summary Action: Major David Gurfein, while serving as Officer-in-Charge, Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo”, I Marine Expeditionary Force, 20 March 2003, performed his duties in a professional and heroic manner. Task Force “Bold Eagle Bravo” was responsible for coordinating... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2017
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Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders

Originally pursuing a career in law, during his first year at Harvard Law School he applied to the joint degree program with HBS at the last minute. “I discovered that I really enjoyed business school, and HBS opened up a whole range of... View Details

30 Sep 2010
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

presentation of HLS, HBS, and the Harvard Kennedy School, Ahtisaari received “The Great Negotiator” award, given annually by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. HBS professor James Sebenius and HBS associate professor Deepak... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Peace Prize; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal firm in Chicago. Because... View Details

December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
Case

The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

The Dutch East India Company’s board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company’s assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock-up period. The charter granted to the... View Details