Legality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2009
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Noted & Quoted

18, 2009) “Google will have continuous challenges to major initiatives around consumer choice, security and trust, and privacy. ” — Professor David Yoffie, commenting on the legal and consumer backlash Google has encountered over plans to... View Details

01 Jan 2009
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Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985

legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development of new treatments and, one day,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)

privacy to employee and customer safety, as well as crisis management, compliance, and internal audits.” “We all make risk-based decisions every day. The same is true in my business at a higher, broader level. A few months ago, we launched a Brexit risk impact... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Dec 2009
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Letters to the Editor

Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back

and exhilarating. “Everything was pro bono,” she shares. “I was point person for our legal team on charitable application documents, in charge of event planning, marketing, onboarding companies that pledged, and working with web... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Ruling the Waves

in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property rights that entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2014
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Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence; fellowship programs; and a need-based loan reduction program for graduating students pursuing an entrepreneurial venture. The Harvard i-lab likewise offers skill-building workshops on everything from legal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2012
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Cracks in the Foundation

foundation, the survey sought to gauge the impact of 17 specific macro- and microeconomic factors. Of greatest concern to alumni were dysfunction in America's political system, the complex tax code, a failing K-12 education system, an inefficient View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
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Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

van der Boor (all MBA '97). Their group developed a plan to launch Omnicom Technologies, an enhanced fax management system. A total of $50,000 in cash and in-kind services (accounting assistance from Arthur Andersen LLP and legal advice... View Details

24 Sep 2012
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Wells, Mathews elected to Harvard Corporation

Keywords: Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

presenting this case, I shared the impact that mass incarceration had on my life, and how it targets one community over another,” she says. “I’ve been a part of so many different socioeconomic backgrounds. I have seen that the lower your income is, the more punitive... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful immigrant economists, entrepreneurs, and government advisers while debunking myths that surround immigration. For example, according to the Congressional Budget... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1996
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Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)

experience," Wasserstein laughs. After spending a year as a Knox Traveling Fellow at Cambridge University studying economics and law, he served as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. It was while handling legal... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, with Elizabeth McNair

22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

community. “I had a chance to not only cook day in and day out, but to be in a place that was a scene. People went there to fly their flag, and be with other people who were like them,” Duda says. In Boston, Duda was in the kitchen at the original View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2004
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Hollywood Story

Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

sending countries. What are the inbound effects of high-skill immigration for the United States? Legal immigrants represent about 14 or 15 percent of the workforce, but our studies of patent data show that ethnic names [primarily Indian... View Details