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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
other outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, Los Angeles Times, and Harvard Business Review. She has twice received the Dukeminier Award for the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity. Professor... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
loss of control and precision of information). Before the 1920s at least, most German industrial firms did not have an extensive middle management staff. Large German firms remained much more diversified and decentralized than unitary,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
a member of its editorial board. He will now spend more time at Columbia, including overseeing the Columbia Journalism Review. “I’ve turned over day-to-day editing to The Nation’s current editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and in November, financial and View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
which was held on May 18 in the city. Intended to explore the impacts of technology on the nature and availability of work in San Francisco, the all-day conference invited alumni to join a conversation with HBS faculty, city stakeholders, and tech View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have a greater likelihood of... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration of America's shift away from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable option for governments and a voluntary option for restaurants. However, there is very limited empirical data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
indeed as mutually opposed? Dr. Connell’s current research project considers the legal and cultural ramifications of recent gender and sexual policy change in the US military, from the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to the gender... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
world, where a simple phrase speaks volumes: “No guanxi — no business.” Translation: No relationships — no business. Relationships take on added importance in China because they tend to make up for weak legal and regulatory institutions,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach By: Fisher III, William W., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft! Finally, the paper investigates the societal welfare consequences of OSS availability by comparing different industry structures (monopoly and duopoly). We find... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
School Case 313-036 This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. It was an... View Details
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
pioneered shipbuilding techniques that not only allowed him to build ships at unprecedented rates, but he also spurred the whole shipbuilding industry to do the same. His fame made him the object of envy and scorn for shipbuilders all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne