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Social Impact: Dutch Leonard (login required) Workshops Developing Your Social Enterprise Pitch, Powerpoint Deck February 2019 Developing Your Social Enterprise Pitch: Worksheet (PDF) February 2019 Play Legal Aspects of Starting a Social... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

(which are often legal and unavoidable), while maintaining a strong anti-corruption and anti-capture stance. HBS professor Lou Wells, with many years of experience working on mining agreements and as a negotiator in Africa and Indonesia,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services; Legal Services

28 Feb 2022
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Equal Partner

country—something that had not been legal until Title III of the JOBS Act went into effect the year. Using Republic’s website or app, anyone with $10 could invest in a highly vetted startup. Moreover, women founders and founders of color... View Details

November 2017
Supplement

Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (B)

By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull

Supplement to HBS No. 918-001. The case describes the inventive approaches to retail crime prevention that Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s Convenience Stores, implemented between 2007 and 2017. View Details

Keywords: Public Relations; Community Relations; Change Management; Leading Change; Training; Knowledge Dissemination; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Law Enforcement; Legal Liability; Business and Community Relations; Retail Industry; Canada

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01 Jun 2003
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HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS

Fiorina Photo courtesy of Hewlett-Packard In the 1970s, after graduating from Stanford with a concentration in medieval history and philosophy, something happened to Carly Fiorina on her way to a successful legal career. “I hated law... View Details

Keywords: HP; Hewlitt-Packard; Fiorina; Compaq; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

05 Apr 2016
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Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

also with a team of lawyers specializing in transactional and real estate law. To compete at this level, I realized I would need a more in-depth understanding of both sides of the equation: taxes, regulatory issues, the distinctions between international 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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American Business History Records | Baker Library

Hancock Family Papers Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John Hancock, and other relatives and associates. To learn more about accessing our... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose? | Baker Library

Harvard Library access to connect Harvard's subscription access to results. JSTOR Best for older research (comprehensive backfiles of journals). Classic academic journals. 100% full-text; all charts and images included. Nexis Uni Best for View Details

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

September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
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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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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

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

recently filed for an additional $2.1 billion. And according to various analysts, Uber is on track for an estimated valuation north of $60 billion. To say the least, the company can afford lots of lawyers to fight its global legal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

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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with key actors in the local ecosystem. I am deeply grateful to the scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal experts and policymakers who generously shared their extraordinary experiences in building the local life sciences... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

up the value chain from call center operations to legal document processing and graphic design. I do feel optimistic about Jamaica’s future. We’re hoping to see businesses create 50 or 100 new jobs, not one or two. We’ve doubled down on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

It's a question often debated, but seldom answered authoritatively: Do companies have a social responsibility to protect the environment beyond legal requirements? Specifically, may companies do so within the scope of their fiduciary... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

doesn’t go to parks and roads and schools,” Iram explains. If a client does suffer a breach, At-Bay picks up the tab for any direct financial losses that may ensue, along with a host of other costly consequences. For example, companies that have been compromised may be... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Sep 2012
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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