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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Jeff Goldman
sections at two nationally recognized law firms for 11 years, Jeff opened his own practice in 2011. Jeff has successfully filed thousands of H-1B, L-1, O-1 and E-2 petitions, and more than 2000 PERM Labor... View Details
Jeff Goldman
sections at two nationally recognized law firms for 11 years, Jeff opened his own practice in 2011. Jeff has successfully filed thousands of H-1B, L-1, O-1 and E-2 petitions, and more than 2000 PERM Labor... View Details
Keywords: Legal
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
immigrants food stamps, a claim Edwards calls “false, outrageous, and offensive.” Edwards’s approach to curbing illegal immigration is less hard-line and more centrist, seeking more border security (he helped write the law that added... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower profit margins. As a result,... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
worked for Duke Energy as assistant to the company’s CEO after graduation, but in 2013 he and McCready reunited and cofounded Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on funding utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina. The... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
lot better than the alternative. We would have had a disaster on the order of the Great Depression.” Paulson proposed two key reforms. The first would be the creation of a systemic risk regulator to monitor markets and intervene when any View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had not been able to afford college and who, at the age of 50, was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
Valley with Draper Gaither & Anderson, the first venture capital company in the West. He later started Sutter Hill Ventures, where he served as the senior partner until joining the Export-Import Bank. Draper also started the first venture capital View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his firm aims to reward investors with "attractive,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
society and ensure that democracy is fair and inclusive for all? RH: I think the most important thing in the short term—and I see some firms beginning to do this—is to talk about government and democracy in a different way, to acknowledge... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
innovation work? A: There are many. Recent decisions against Napster and other file-sharing firms, for example, confirm that property means are by no means dead online. On the contrary, both citizens and firms want to preserve property... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly driven by View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
whether the Section and the Law of which it is a part will have the desired effects. This suggests the importance of tracking both the costs and benefits of the Law. There is little or no provision to do either in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
juvenile law, however, O'Neill decided that his efforts would be better spent working with kids before they got into trouble. He accepted a position in a corporate law firm in Connecticut in 1984 and began... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
a local law firm to finally overcome the need for dual approval—an outcome that demanded local counsel well versed in the intricacies of Chinese culture. In short, successful cross-border negotiators begin... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
case:http://hbr.org/search/813073-PDF-ENG Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged) Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 413-064 Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our present stage, emerged as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
this day, the two siblings remain "very close," says Wasserstein, who readily defers to his sister's fame. "More often than not," he says affectionately, "I'm just known as Wendy's brother." After finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan,... View Details