Business Law - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2023

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, D.C.

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between... View Details

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evolves in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

In a fraught ethics and legal climate, leaders need to know how to steer clear of trouble more than ever. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, released in September, offers a comprehensive resource on everything from the history of corporate criminal... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

changing the tax laws to render tax-free those capital gains earned on stock held for ten years or more. Shann Turnbull suggested the need for education in “new organizational forms” such as “Network Governance” that are currently “mostly... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Blog Post

Am I Eligible for the 2+2 Program?

College seniors from any academic background are eligible to apply but some preference will be given to high potential individuals on paths that aren't as well established in leading to graduate business school, including applicants:... View Details

June 1998 (Revised June 1998)
Background Note

Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Perspective

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Describes the business and legal context surrounding personal and corporate bankruptcy. View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Condition; Legal Liability; Personal Finance; Loss; Business or Company Management

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09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

entrepreneurship, a lifelong passion of mine. I decided to pursue a law degree in the winter of 2020 during my 2+2 deferral. Since graduating college, I’ve spent time working with organizers addressing issues like police brutality. In the... View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

About Team 1ms David Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

nonprofits, and government organizations—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real business issues—and places the student in the role of the decision maker. Students will read 500 cases during their two years... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

issued an executive order on April 13, clarifying the state law and asking the legislature to revisit some of its provisions. The actions of PayPal’s Schulman and other CEOs is an example of a phenomenon that Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

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A Vital Residential Community | About

A Vital Residential Community Designed with the belief that daily interactions increase the potential for learning. Map & Directions Take a Tour Contemporary Art A Commitment to Sustainability HBS is the only top business school in the... View Details

07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Sandra Sucher. By contrast, she notes, when Pinterest proactively moved to keep anti-vaccination activists from spreading misinformation on the site during the COVID-19 pandemic, the company... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School, and most recently,... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

Winter 2017
Article

Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play

By: Benjamin Edelman

I present Google practices that have raised objections from competition regulators. I consider the key impediments to competition and examine the business models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. View Details

Keywords: Antitrust; Mobile; Mobile Technology; Search Technology; Technology Platform; Contracts; Lawfulness; Competition; Information Technology Industry; European Union; Russia; South Korea

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November 2001
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Global Approaches to Anti-Corruption

By: Joseph Hinsey, Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

In the 1970s, a series of unpleasant revelations about corporate conduct, culminating in the public disclosure about unsavory business practices abroad by more than 400 U.S. corporations, jarred popular perceptions concerning business ethics. Congress responded by... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Laws and Statutes; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information Industry; United States

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11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

you can't really control. The narrative that emerged was you have a newcomer, he's young, he's aggressive. What we need right now for our city, we need someone that has some sort of business skills, someone that can represent our city,... View Details

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

registered nurses. The statistical evidence suggests that medical teams tended to prioritize messages from white patients, says Ariel Stern, a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and one of the study’s authors. As mobile... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

November 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Pacesetters

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin

City Sealcoating CEO Keith Chaney had just publicly called out the Boston Chamber of Commerce for their slow progress on their supplier diversity program, Pacesetters. Established in 2018 by regional business leaders, Pacesetters was supposed to facilitate... View Details