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- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais describes herself as a blend. Since early on, she has borne two stories. She was raised in France by a British mother and a French father having studied law in the United States. As for her own personality, Tessa... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Finance II Leadership & Corporate Accountability (LCA) FIELD Global Capstone The Purpose of the Firm The Summer Work Experience Students fulfill the requirement through successful completion of a summer work... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
After college, Ramirez planned to attend law school and took a proactive approach to crafting her career trajectory. Goal-oriented by nature and encouraged by her parents, she joined an enrichment program with Boston Lawyers Group, an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Preparing for a career in investment banking
learned to navigate. To be honest, I was quite sure that I wanted to try out investment banking in New York. My last year at my old job in corporate M&A gave me a taste of investment banking and I was intrigued. However, I had many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Rose, who worked at Morgan for twenty years. “In Leader-ship and Corporate Accountability, the focus will be on the government’s decision to ask JPMorgan to purchase Bear, and the potentially conflicting responsibilities of management.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
propose creating a government-owned corporation that would guarantee new well-underwritten mortgages when private markets fail. We agree that private markets, for the most part, can provide mortgages without government guarantees. But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
have a great deal of difficulty adjusting to realities that corporations have readily taken in stride. What do you mean by “harmonism” and “convergence” as they relate to foreign relations? Harmonism is the notion that if it weren’t for a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
clear sense from the courts of exactly where the dividing line between platforms and employers might be." In some ways Uber doesn't look like a traditional company—but it does have a corporate headquarters, in San Francisco.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
intranet software tool designed to help workers within an organization create their own “communities of interest” in giving back. “It’s a communication platform to improve employee respect and trust, corporate culture, and community... View Details
- October 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
On the eve of trial, and after nearly 14 years of pre-trial litigation, the parties in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell jointly announced that the four U.S. lawsuits stemming from the execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 had been settled. View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Lawsuits and Litigation; Nigeria; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Wiwa v. Royal Dutch/Shell." Harvard Business School Case 310-038, October 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
- Supplement
The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
Paine, Lynn S., and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci. "The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-048, December 2019. (Revised June 2024.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Samuel L. Hayes, III (MBA '61, DBA '66), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, is a widely recognized authority on capital markets, Wall Street, and the corporate interface with the securities markets. He takes a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
for senior executives when his son was a second-year MBA student. Spangler also chaired the Bank of North Carolina during the 1980s, playing a key role in its merger with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation (now Bank of America),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
part of a field study, she worked out an idea for a digital library for users of computer-aided design (CAD). That became InPart Design, a company she sold to Parametric Technology for a reported $60 million two years after founding it. After success as a View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three laboratory experiments and a survey study of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes. Blake Jorgensen, the chief operating officer and co-director of investment banking,... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Change Management; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Laws and Statutes; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; San Francisco
Baker, Malcolm P., and Lauren Barley. "Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners." Harvard Business School Case 206-091, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on the book, Breaking Through: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
fundraising with individuals and large corporate partners, and partnerships with Veterans Affairs, the nonprofit continues to see increases in its gifts to families and the number of people the organization is able to find and assist. The... View Details