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  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

securing specimens from a new set of actors in the commerce in cadavers. These actors are legal entrepreneurial ventures that have been operating for more than a decade in the United States; they cater to domestic users and international... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

necessary to protect the legal rights, including the intellectual property rights, of Harvard Business School or the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Personal Information Collected and Use of Information We do not intentionally... View Details

    Henry W. Bloch

    Bloch diversified H & R Block by purchasing Personnel Pool of America, CompuServe, and Hyatt Legal Services. By the mid-1980s, H & R Block was spending at least $20 million a year on advertising. By 1992, Bloch had expanded the... View Details
    Keywords: Services
    • Portrait Project

    Karina Rodriguez

    My grandfather signed legal documents with his thumbprint. My dad got a sixth-grade education, and like his father before him, was destined to be a subsistence farmer. My family is from rural Mexico, and my dad understood the destiny of... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2012
    • News

    Who Owns Yoga?

    slowly. In 1978, he wrote Bikram’s Beginning Yoga Class. He trademarked his company’s name, Bikram’s Yoga College of India, and in 1994 began offering intensive courses, training 200 teachers each year. Bikram also followed the very nontraditional yoga practice of... View Details
    Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Fast Answer

    Reshaping Competition

    Congressional Research Services reports:  research and analysis to support Congress in their legislative, oversight, and representational duties.  Link goes directly to search results for reports on antitrust. HeinOnline: View Details
    • August 1995
    • Case

    Hutton Branch Manager (D)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
    Describes the actions taken by E.F.Hutton management in response to the Bell Report, a study prepared by former Attorney General Griffin Bell and his law firm after Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with its cash management... View Details
    Keywords: Legal Liability; Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Acquisition; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • 05 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 5, 2008

    Consider the other side of influence, i.e., how targets of influence might defend against the tactics herein considered; and (5) Consider some of the ethical issues surrounding the use of psychological influence in negotiation. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 19 Nov 2014
    • HBS Case

    Marketing Marijuana

    On Tuesday, the family of deceased musician and celebrated marijuana user Bob Marley announced what it claimed will be the first global cannabis brand, Marley Natural. Suddenly, marijuana is a growth industry—and increasingly, a legal... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 01 Mar 2008
    • News

    India is more Transparent

    First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • June 1999
    • Background Note

    Competition Between the Professions: Law Firms vs. Accounting Firms

    By: Ashish Nanda
    Discusses the emerging competition between law firms and accounting firms. View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Competition; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry
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    • 16 Sep 2015
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

    Means, whose 1932 book The Modern Corporation and Private Property has been lauded as the most important business book of all time, our paper unveils new research on the legal framework underpinning fiduciary duty around the world. In the... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
    • September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
    • Case

    Summit Distributors (A)

    By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
    Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Legal Services Industry; Legal Services Industry
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    • 27 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

    Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services
    • 24 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Do We Tax?

    There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to policymakers and citizens debating American tax policy can sometimes seem to miss the point.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
    • 01 Apr 2020
    • News

    Happy Because He’s Blind

    Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was just three years old when his vision began to fail; diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, he was legally blind by his early 20s. “It was really a difficult period for me trying to figure out what I was going... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2017
    • News

    Finding Purpose in Profit

    transparency, and legal accountability. “I was hired in 2014 to change how business is done in Colorado and to make it the leader in responsible business practice,” she says. “For the past three years, I have been traveling around the... View Details
    • Article

    Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance

    By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
    Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Legal Liability; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; India
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      Robert E. Dewar

      With a law degree from Wayne State University, Dewar joined S. S. Kresge (K-Mart) in the legal department. However, he became more interested in business than law and eventually led K-Mart’s huge expansion of retail stores nationwide. He... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 18 Jan 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

      sample of fellowship applications between 2006 and 2011, yielding some 3,500 profiles of social entrepreneurs in their nascence. They coded the profiles with several criteria, including the aims of the projects and their beneficiaries, the proposed business models, and... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel