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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

an appraiser to value the goods, salesmen to auction off the unredeemed collateral, and a notary to keep legally binding records of every transaction in an account book such as this one. As this ledger reveals, most borrowers pawned small... View Details

07 Jul 2003
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The Organizational Model for Open Source

foundations with formal boards and designated roles and responsibilities. Now there is a wide range of foundations that are emerging. At one end of the continuum are nonprofit foundations that act as little more than legal shells to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

against rivals? The third level of analysis is the political economy. All the businesses that we study at HBS work in the context of a larger political economy. Consumer finance businesses, in particular, more so than many others, operate under substantial regulatory... View Details

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

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Pacific Railway, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad. They include correspondence (letterbooks, telegrams, cablegrams, invitations), administrative records (minutes, memos, by-laws, annual reports), financial papers (ledgers, receipts, stock certificates), View Details

01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal firm in Chicago. Because... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Blameless Victim: Our Ten-Year Legal Battle against Zurich American Insurance and American International Group by Harold S. Rhodes (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This is the detailed story of the Rhodes family’s... View Details

02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain

in national security, but Brochu's knowledge of computer security, plus her earlier experience as a volunteer legal aid for families and children, made her the perfect candidate to prosecute child abuse and exploitation cases. So when she... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; human trafficking; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

August 2002 (Revised August 2002)
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Raiser Senior Services--The Stratford (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Focuses on modifying operations to increase profitability at an upscale senior care facility in California. Jennifer Raiser, president of Raiser Senior Services, opened the Stratford in 1992 as a high-end, continuing-care retirement community. Ten years later, the... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Profit; Saving; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Growth and Maturation; Health Industry; Service Industry; California

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2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA

considered, and discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected basis is prohibited. Because... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management

impact on behavior, not just on legal accountability. “Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray,” by Eugene Soltes, Journal of Management Education. View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
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Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The

By: Andre F. Perold and Joshua Musher

In 2001, the Unilever Superannuation Fund sued Merrill Lynch for damages of 130 million British pounds. Over the period 1977 to 1998, the Unilever Fund had significantly underperformed the benchmark, and its trustees contended that the poor returns resulted from... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Performance Evaluation; Agreements and Arrangements; Customer Relationship Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Management; Risk Management; Legal Liability; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

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Eric Sonnier

of Rock Center’s assistance through its legal office hours and Entrepreneur in Residence programs. Eric and Broderick are competing in the New Venture Competition and have received funding from the Rock Summer Fellowship Program to help... View Details

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Find Books, Articles, & More | Baker Library

that person’s legal name. Faculty provide details about themselves. Faculty agree to take responsibility for the proxy using the library and materials. Faculty and proxy wait for instructions from library staff to confirm the proxy is... View Details

02 Apr 2015
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Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

impediments in the future. In mapping those bottlenecks, Hsiang cited difficulty in moving data around because of legal constraints and high costs with low rewards. Petro added the issue of timeliness--even if data was flowing, it would... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

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

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Brian Sykes

insecurity. Never-ending psychological, financial, and legal battles. Separated parents. Promises unkept. Therapy. Ever since receiving a scholarship to boarding school, I’ve avoided my past. But I’m done running. Because few things are... View Details

29 Nov 2004
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Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

the new one. Cultural and historical reasons also exist for why one region would be more or less open to information flows. There are also legal issues. For instance, Massachusetts has non-compete agreements where you can't share... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

as a separate marketplace, because each has its own legal requirements, cultural traditions, and business methods, and most have their own currencies. The dramatic changes in strategic thinking and organizational relationships have made... View Details