Lawfulness - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2017
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Christine Lagarde

By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat

The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details

Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change

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04 May 2017
HBS Seminar

Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

So many boxes. Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) moved into this Brooklyn Heights apartment just a few days ago, as evidenced by the ratio of boxes emptied to those still filled. The living room, though, is an island of unpacked order, bobbing above a cardboard sea. It’s late... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

hands also led them to undertake new financial obligations—like installment buying—which in turn gave rise to temporary liquidity problems. Small lenders like pawnshops and salary lenders proliferated in nineteenth-century cities, but strict usury View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Harvard Business School visiting professor J. S. Nelson in her new book Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be released on April 21. Nelson, a Villanova University law and business faculty member, co-wrote the book... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jul 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin

23 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI shifted financial resources and hundreds of agents toward combatting terrorism, unintentionally weakening the agency’s ability to investigate white-collar crime in America, research shows. As a result, wire fraud, illegal... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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, co-author of Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the... View Details

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

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s economic impact and efforts to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

practicing law in Philadelphia, representing this company among others, the CEO of Merck, my predecessor, three times removed, called me into his office, said, "I'm two years from retirement. I can't seem to get my colleagues, my white... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

08 May 2024
News

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Awarded Medal of Freedom

Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) was one of 19 people awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on May 2. “From finance to media to philanthropy, Michael Bloomberg has revolutionized our economy,” President Biden said as he conferred the Nation’s highest... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

regulatory differences. Keywords: Climate Change ; Corporate Governance ; Diversity ; Leadership ; Business or Company Management ; Mission and Purpose ; Social Media ; Race ; Environmental Sustainability ; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms ; Governing and... View Details

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BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Carin-Isabel Knoop and H. James Nelson

Describes the events surrounding the construction of the BAE baggage-handling system at the Denver International Airport. It looks specifically at project management, including decisions regarding budget, scheduling, and the overall management structure. Also examines... View Details

Keywords: Management; Decisions; Contracts; Time Management; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Budgets and Budgeting; Construction Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Colorado

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15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

H. Clarke (MBA 1988/JD 1989): Teresa Clarke, JD MBA, MBA class of 1988. I have a good friend who went to the Law School, who ran the Ford Foundation's Global Human Rights Program. And he gave away hundreds of millions of dollars in every... View Details

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Harvard Economics Department, and the Harvard Law School) are committed to regular meetings to share research findings and data. Global Crises Data By Country Global Crises Data View Details

04 Jan 2022
What Do You Think?

Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

(iStockphoto/tofumax) A corporate board’s most important decision is selecting the organization’s CEO. By the same token, one could argue that a board’s most distasteful decision concerns firing a CEO. Once directors agree to release the CEO, the next step is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that law and governments struggle to keep up with. As business becomes more involved in the way society operates, it creates responsibilities that weren’t present before.” HOME REGION Ankara, Turkey UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Koc University... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Research Brief: Staying in the Game

and stay in business. But in a 2020 survey of 1,500 small-business owners, only 34 percent of respondents were familiar with the differences between the two types, and half were unaware that a business can operate after filing for bankruptcy. In fact, in February 2020,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

class on your venture: Independent Project Field X (provides funding) Entrepreneurial Sales 101 Startup Operations (provides funding) Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) Get pro bono legal support for your startup: Pitch to Harvard Law... View Details

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