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- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
company seem bigger than it actually was. He was almost discovered when a Japanese customer arrived in the United States and insisted they meet and go to dinner. Two years shy of legal drinking age, Crespin spent the evening in mortal... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of trained personnel, an... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
legal and administrative effort. In Canada, he served as a founding director of the Canada Development Investment Corporation. Locally, he helped engineer the merger of Brigham and Women’s (BWH) and Mass General Hospitals. “John is the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
that I won’t be able to lead if we’re not transparent.” “As leaders in purpose-driven organizations, we have to remember that it’s not always driven by a hard business decision or legal decision; we have to look at our values and find the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
is not a monolith and spans cultural traditions as diverse as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, to name but a few. Dispute resolution, enforcement of legal judgments, data transparency, corporate governance,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation
that technology has widened opportunities for America’s 1.3 million legally blind, working-age adults. Now blind workers produce a whole range of office supplies, manufacture aircraft parts, perform milling and grinding procedures, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
was booming: The price of bitcoin had surged to nearly $20,000; governments were beginning to recognize the cryptocurrency as legal tender; and industries from fintech to pharma were launching blockchain-related projects. (Though best... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income through View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
particularly difficult because of cultural and legal differences. For example, the legal definition of 'redundant employees' varies widely as do requirements for severance arrangements. In the face of such... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
decisions. In many developed countries, taxes are confiscatory, and in many developing countries, there is no legal protection for intellectual property. Horatio Alger is alive and well in the United States; individual success and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to increase financial literacy. They do this with online resources, calculators, and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
legal challenges by the media companies, have repeatedly ruled that the FCC’s constraints were, in effect, “arbitrary” and “capricious.” So the FCC was forced to either ease the rules or offer a stronger justification for them. On June 2,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Few gave him a chance of succeeding. Yet MacArthur did so brilliantly, defying timetables and expectations. Morris analyzes MacArthur's key tactical choices, explaining how each contributed to his accomplishment. Managing Legal Compliance... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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New Releases
between Islamic and Western legal and financial concepts and practices. While charging interest is ruled out, the Koran does allow Muslims to participate in profits. "They can become a partner on a level playing field with other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
announcement. He claimed that the Dreyer’s name and logo encroached on Breyers’ trademark and demanded that the company change its name. Although his own attorney advised that Kraft had a strong legal case, Rogers opted to play hardball... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
take action to speed up economic growth and improve the standard of living by providing a stable and effective legal environment for business operations; equal opportunities for the public and private sectors; investment in better... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
free-for-all five years ago has long since been beaten into submission by the myriad personnel, administrative, and legal hassles of "management." John B. Higginbotham (MBA '79) February 1988 It seems that every high- and low-brow... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
before heading to Harvard Law School. He went on to serve as a Legal Aid attorney, a Providence Housing Court judge, and then a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he cofounded the Latino Policy Institute. He has... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley