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20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

impact more efficiently, effectively, and sustainably. Winning Legally: The Value of Legal Astuteness Author:Constance E. Bagley Periodical:The Academy of Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores the value of actively... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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China: laws/regulations

Where can I find Chinese laws and regulations? People's Republic of China Legal Research Guide: Produced by Harvard Law School Library, this guide provides a starting place for resources in Chinese and English. Westlaw... View Details

Robert J. Kleberg, Sr.

After Richard King, the founder of King Ranch died, Kleberg, the firm’s former legal counsel, took over the management of the 600,000 acre ranch in Texas. Kleberg expanded the ranch to over 1.3 million acres. Although the ranch eventually... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

15 Jan 2019
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Working to Improve the End of Life

in dying is also called physician-assisted death, sometimes. And what it is, is the ability of a mentally competent, terminally ill adult to get a prescription from their doctor that they can use to end their life, if they choose to do so. It's View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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News by country

business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Select Country Info, then select Country and select Sources. Leading English Language News Papers: This page provides links to English language newspapers for... View Details

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Real Estate Investing - Course Catalog

a multidisciplinary industry that requires strong analytical rigor as wells as broad strategic thinking. Educational Objectives Students will learn about the interplay of capital structures, building characteristics, stakeholders, and View Details

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Talia Gillis

decision-making played a key role in how law is created and understanding law in action. My time as a clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda and at the Israel Supreme Court exposed me to judicial decision-making processes. Volunteering at the labor... View Details

June 2004 (Revised January 2005)
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Principals, Agents, and Partners

By: Arthur I Segel, Armen Panossian and Jeff Mandelbaum

The establishment of the principal-agent relationship, the duties owed by the agent to the principal, and the principal's liability for illegal actions or representations made by the agent are all examined. Also covers the creation of partnerships and the duties of... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Agency Theory; Legal Liability

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23 Sep 2009
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Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health

August 2017
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Tort Reform and Innovation

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model that predicts that the impact... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Legal Liability; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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14 May 2019
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Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

benefits from regulatory and enforcement agencies if something goes amiss. For example, showing that a firm took pains to educate employees on legal regulations can potentially reduce fines by up to 95 percent. Ideally, the code of ethics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Feb 2001
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Creating Value Across Borders

for a relatively stable legal framework with enforceable property rights. In some countries without stable legal systems, you will not necessarily see the most qualified people become entrepreneurs and start... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Cost of doing business

guides providing information on the local legal and business context, including costs. Site Selection Magazine: Expansion planning information via state, country, industry and trend reports, project profiles and economic development... View Details

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Nexis Uni | Baker Library

Nexis Uni Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Read More Includes U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an interface that offers quick discovery across all content types,... View Details

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

characteristics and fixed effects. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16294 Law and Finance c. 1900 Authors:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
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Supporting the Troops

2007). “It enabled me to broaden my experience and background and make me valuable to a series of employers and legal firms.” Kohlberg has set up a $4 million Fund for Veterans’ Education, which awards scholarships to two veterans in... View Details

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

29 Apr 2021
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PRIDE at HBS: Forty Years of Progress

HBS community for 40 years. Think about it PRIDE has been a part of HBS for 40 years! Since 1981! The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. It was not even legal for me to be openly gay in the Navy under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” until 2012. Gay... View Details

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Henry Villard Business Papers | Baker Library

concern Villard's railroad and electrical enterprises. Documentation includes correspondence, administrative records, financial papers, legal records, agreements, newspapers, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, maps, and patents.... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

small lender rose to prominence around the turn of the twentieth century: the salary lender, or “loan shark.” One study of 1894 estimated that one in five American households owed money to one of these lenders. Because the legal lending... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Giving New Ventures a Boost

Some $80,000 in cash and in-kind legal and accounting services were awarded to winners and runners-up in the 11th annual HBS Business Plan Contest last April. Traditional track winner Sandra Nudelman (MBA ’07) and her sister Michele, a... View Details

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

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