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- 19 Jan 2011
- News
Repealing Health Care Not the Answer
- September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details
Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 414-003, September 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- February 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Background Note
Note on Contingent Environmental Liabilities
Addresses contingent environmental liabilities that are the result of unforeseen environmental risks where the dollar amount of such liabilities is unknown and depends on future events. In contrast, fines for violating environmental laws are liabilities, but are not... View Details
Keywords: Legal Liability; Risk Management; Natural Environment; Laws and Statutes; Pollutants; Governance Compliance; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Note on Contingent Environmental Liabilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 794-098, February 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Citizens United and Corporate Speech
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
The story of Citizens United began in late 2007, as leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties were preparing for the 2008 presidential primaries. Democrats expected a three-way contest in their party between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator (and... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
What Drives Innovation?
By: Tom Nicholas
The idea that innovation drives economic growth is incontrovertible, but the factors that, in turn, drive innovation are not fully understood. This paper surveys the recent literature, focusing on three main drivers: intellectual property rights institutions, the... View Details
Nicholas, Tom. "What Drives Innovation?" Antitrust Law Journal 77, no. 3 (September 2011).
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Digital Business Models Should Have to Follow the Law, Too
- July 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Background Note
Bribery in Business: A Legal Perspective
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Provides a brief overview of the concept of bribery and the principal rationales prompting restrictions on such conduct. Also, reviews some of the most important U.S. and international laws prohibiting various forms of bribery. View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher Bruner. "Bribery in Business: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-012, July 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- February 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
On June 8th, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates from across the United States began discussing a curious proposal to expand federal power over the states. James Madison of Virginia had suggested that the new constitution include a... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Law; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; History; South Carolina; Philadelphia; United States
Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "James Madison, the 'Federal Negative,' and the Making of the U.S. Constitution." Harvard Business School Case 716-053, February 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
Louis E. Caldera
Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Zia Mody
Zia Mody, founder of AZB & Partners, a leading corporate law firm in India, describes her policy of providing mentorship and advice to women through marriage and motherhood in order to retain them as... View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Video
Mahbubur Rahman
Mahbubur Rahman, a prominent business leader in Bangladesh, identifies the persistence of British colonial laws as a cause of the high level of corruption in the country. View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder’s Journey
- fall 1995
- Article
Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Examines the antitrust treatment of private-sector standard setting in the U.S. Applicability of law and decision-making issues in high technology industries; Examination of cost-based facilitating theory; Approach to evaluate the reasonableness of a standard. View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Information Technology; Law; Decision Making; Cost; Theory; Performance Evaluation; Standards; United States
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries." Antitrust Law Journal 64, no. 1 (fall 1995): 247–265. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
EU Takeover Directive
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
The draft 13th Company Law Directive, originally written in the 1980s and first formally proposed in 1990, was intended to harmonize the takeover laws of the member states of the European Union (EU). From its inception, though, this bill was controversial. Nations... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Mergers and Acquisitions; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Germany; United Kingdom; European Union
Subramanian, Guhan, and Michelle Kalka. "EU Takeover Directive." Harvard Business School Case 902-066, October 2001. (Revised December 2001.)