Legal System - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly... View Details

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals formerly exclusive knowledge. But as a result, contributors may appropriate a large share of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

are processed through the same United States Bankruptcy Court system, and are overseen by the same pool of federal bankruptcy judges, who currently number about 350 only. The bankruptcy process also requires the active participation of skilled View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a modern... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of the different disciplines, which... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

developed an innovation fair in which every unit could show off its most promising new concepts. I was privileged to judge the first one with the then CEO, where we gave an award to the legal department for its ethics program, featuring a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

reduces the ethanol until the preferred level of alcohol remains, and finally that product is reconditioned with carbonation. These techniques were repopularized during Prohibition, when 0.5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) became the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

economics and political system. Datar: MBAs need to understand what it means to be a general manager in a global world and the differences in institutions, norms, cultures, and legal frameworks. It would be fascinating, for example, to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

future. A Lucrative Business Patent trolling can be a lucrative undertaking because of the ambiguous nature of intellectual property. "A patent troll is a firm that sues opportunistically in hopes that an imperfect legal View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead to a lifetime of increased risk... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Mar 2008
News

India is more Transparent

First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private... View Details

May 2007 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm (TN)

By: Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Legal Services Industry

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11 Dec 2019
News

A Righteous Path

nearly 2,000 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.) But having the law on your side and understanding how to navigate the legal system are two different things. Unlike in criminal court, there is no... View Details

Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services