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Managing Global Operations
information Nexis Uni Business legal news, cases, practices, statures and legislations. It also provides country and company profiles. US Census Bureau: Foreign Trade News, regulations, guide, and data on US foreign trade. Culture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence; fellowship programs; and a need-based loan reduction program for graduating students pursuing an entrepreneurial venture. The Harvard i-lab likewise offers skill-building workshops on everything from legal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
Bowen, H. Kent, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Raiser Senior Services--The Stratford (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-013, August 2002. (Revised August 2002.)
- 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
- News
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
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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
- July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
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
Perold, Andre F., and Joshua Musher. "Unilever Superannuation Fund vs. Merrill Lynch, The." Harvard Business School Case 203-034, July 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
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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
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
leverage non-market, non-pecuniary resources,” Wu says. For example, a startup can benefit more from advice and mentorship from a successful person in their industry, or in-kind donations of legal or financial services, than they can from... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
intellectual property, it creates questions as to how the original creator and "owner" should act. As Gary King suggests, "Treating customers like thieves is a certain recipe for failure." The impact of technological, social, and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
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
- 29 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
foundation, the survey sought to gauge the impact of 17 specific macro- and microeconomic factors. Of greatest concern to alumni were dysfunction in America's political system, the complex tax code, a failing K-12 education system, an inefficient View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
van der Boor (all MBA '97). Their group developed a plan to launch Omnicom Technologies, an enhanced fax management system. A total of $50,000 in cash and in-kind services (accounting assistance from Arthur Andersen LLP and legal advice... 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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JD/MBA | MBA
graduates for professional roles requiring leadership, legal expertise, and a general management perspective in private enterprise, government, and the nonprofit sector. Download Fact Sheet (PDF) Play Harvard JD/MBA Information Session... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
another of Reich's interventions. He recounted the controversy surrounding accusations that clothing promoted by Kathie Lee Gifford had been manufactured in a sweatshop environment. Even though Gifford had no legal liability in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
the files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the United States. Sixteen percent of music files are downloaded from computers in Germany, 7 percent from Canada, 6 percent from Italy, 4 percent from the United Kingdom. A View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
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