Legal Aspects Of Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2017
Blog Post

4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

very interesting group of game-changing MBAs, a group that will be unique in both its shared interests as well as its diverse individuals. I’m most excited about the cohort aspect View Details

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

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

large-scale changes to business practices and legal reform. “Through the 1930s, she remained the only woman pictured in the all-male leadership council of the Fair Trade... View Details

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

24 Oct 2018
News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

Countries. Khanna, who has been exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the economic and social development of emerging markets, described the critical need to establish trust when launching a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, studies brand marketing and communications. Greyser pioneered the academic study... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

personal perspective on the China trade. Augustine Heard & Co. flourished at a moment when Westerners and Chinese were formulating diplomatic relationships and setting into place the business mechanisms that would bring China into the... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark made these remarks to the National Press Club on February 26.What I'd like to do is talk about a topic that I think touches the very heart of our society: the issue... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

what they will gain from their time in business school and the experience they will walk away with. One group of people who attend school in a distinctively unique position are those who come to HBS with... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

education, or economic development, finds Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Anke Becker in a recent working paper called “On the Economic Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity.” Her research... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

06 Dec 2021
News

Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

“In the century ahead, our capabilities in digital are going to be critical for all aspects of what the School does.” —Professor Karim Lakhani Digital Task Force Chair “In the century ahead, our capabilities... View Details

Keywords: April White

December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
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W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott

A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States

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13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

ads, billboards, and sponsorships in a month. In other words, this would make FIFA the seventh largest business in the world, after Britain's BP and before Japan's Toyota, when compared on an annual basis. The View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

2018
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New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

clear-cut business strategy for its research laboratory, and, in turn, many of PARC's technologies did not fit into Xerox's strategic objectives. For instance, the Alto's ability to adapt to large customers'... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

and realizing that others may make different ones - and both are right. Feminism is rejoicing in every aspect of womanhood, switching off (hopefully smoothly) between soothing a crying baby and conducting a... View Details

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

a viable business model. In building this model, Bezos has revolutionized many aspects of the book-selling and distribution process, and with his introduction View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

John F. Batter

John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

started the case for his elective course on Globalization and Strategy, said that it also illustrates the first efforts of the LARC advisory committee to address business issues unique to the region.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

and is operationally sound.” On top of building out the business plan and managing manufacturing delays, one of the other challenges Girard faced as a new CEO was deciding what... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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