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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
at HBS, I had classmates inform me I was depriving a man of a spot at the School.” When her husband, Louis Cohen, finished his studies at Harvard Law School and was offered a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, Cohen wrote... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
against an attractive but relatively unknown candidate. The alternative of crafting a distinct, positive image takes longer and becomes more difficult as the day of judgment approaches. Policy differences grow fuzzier as both candidates try not to View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Shaping Singapore
whole country, and then you are looking at specific areas,” she says. Currently CEO of Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (and a former CEO of its Urban Redevelopment Authority), Cheong was the first Asian to be awarded the Urban View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
military? Thinking about what you will do next? Consider a JD/MBA. I was once in your shoes. I decided to leave the military after seven years of active duty service and landed at Harvard Law School in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
addition, a scandalous love affair had ruined Hamilton's chances to be President (which, despite being foreign-born, he was eligible to become by law at the time). Hamilton remained in office until early 1795, implementing the legislation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
pricing in quarters where they have a financial incentive to close a deal, resulting in mispricing that costs the vendor 6%-8% of revenue. Robustness checks demonstrate that price discrimination by the vendor does not explain the identified effects. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
In many ways, John Davis is a typical businessman. He works long hours, keeps excellent records, and focuses on using resources wisely. He often brings work home, and his trade is ruled by the laws of supply and demand. But Davis, fit and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
leads the Athens-based multinational producer of cement and other building materials. He ticks through a long list of issues that have made Greece unfriendly to business, from thickets of overregulation and archaic labor laws to the lack... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
include Lewis Tappan, C. A. Spofford, and Jay Cooke. Collection Guide James McCauley Landis Papers (1924-1945) . Special Collections, Harvard Law School. James Landis was a legal academic and federal regulator. The papers at Harvard View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
From Concept to Product | Baker Library
photography that year, Land acknowledged the considerable expenses involved in the commercial launch of the new medium and his hopes for company earnings to pass the break-even point. (1) Eudoxia Muller, one of the early researchers with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
trade publishing divisions —which include Bantam Dell, Knopf, Doubleday Broadway, Ballantine, Crown, and Random House —published over 3,500 titles; 169 landed on the New York Times bestseller list; 28 sold over one million copies.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
When Last Seen
The Bulletin likes to be sure that it is, without exception, landing in the mailboxes of all HBS alumni. So it was with our usual attentiveness that we followed the recent confusion in the Sunshine State, in order to ascertain if the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
generation to remind us that, for our family, America has been a land of opportunity. But as I was sitting on stage waiting to give my remarks, I thought to myself, “Unless you are Native American, everybody in this country has a story of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Timeline 1607 Jamestown A Short History of Jamestown Jamestown Colony 1619 Enslaved Africans brought to Point Comfort, Virginia The 1619 Landing — Report & FAQs First African Slave Ship Arrives at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
and alienated them. Normally, this would have been played out through a series of minor riots and so on, and through adjustments over a period of time as the Sunnis ceded power under stronger and stronger Shia pressure. But the current... View Details