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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
marketplace while its people enjoy a high and rising standard of living. Vietor, with HBS collaborator Matthew Weinzierl, associate professor of Business Administration, and Marvin Bower Fellow, has found that US fiscal policy is eroding... View Details
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
While some consider it President Obama's greatest accomplishment, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also has been the target of constant scrutiny and scorn since it was signed into law last year. Just last week, several news... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS),... View Details
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Phillip Andrews
CPD team, Phillip spent two years in the HBS Global Research Group where he wrote more than 20 published case studies. Prior to HBS, he worked in legal and policy capacities in both the public and private sector. Work Experience: National View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics
- 2015
- Working Paper
The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from trade associations of independent proprietors. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-060, November 2015.
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families, and advocate to get the laws... View Details
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, in collaboration with Harvard Business School’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
efforts in Germany and France), consumers favor products that evolved slowly and are well engineered, while the French prefer style and innovation. These preferences are not just a matter of national DNA, but also reflect decisions made by product designers to respond... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Buying Gold in the Olympics
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details
- July 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Background Note
M&A Legal Context: Standards Related to the Sale or Purchase of a Company
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Constance E. Bagley and James Quinn
Introduces students to the legal standards affecting officers and directors when selling or purchasing a company. Provides a practical understanding of the Revlon Standard, the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, Rule 10b-5, and the legal criteria for a cause of... View Details
Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Law Enforcement; Government Legislation; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Courts and Trials
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Constance E. Bagley, and James Quinn. "M&A Legal Context: Standards Related to the Sale or Purchase of a Company." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-004, July 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
regulators have the necessary tools to encourage people to come forward with information? Heese: Our research focuses on specific legislation known as the False Claims Act, which was the first cash-for-information whistleblower law in the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
faculty, he proposed a radical shift from lecture-style to case method instruction, which he knew well from his law school days. “All business not of a routine nature presents itself in the form of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Back in the Lead. “The good news is that government and business want the same outcome,” says Kanter, the School’s Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. To bring about “the cross-sector... View Details
- October 1987 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)
Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment contracts, technology licenses, antitrust, trade secrets, and confidential information. Provides a good opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Human Resources; Contracts; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Intellectual Property; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Startups; Monopoly
Roberts, Michael J. "CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 388-041, October 1987. (Revised October 1998.)
- January 1980 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Patterson v. Commissioner
By: Henry B. Reiling
Floyd Patterson (Petitioner) the former world heavyweight boxing champion and his manager, C. D'Amato, formed a corporation, Floyd Patterson Enterprises Ltd., to handle all ancillary rights connected with Patterson's boxing matches. The question is whether the... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "Patterson v. Commissioner." Harvard Business School Case 280-078, January 1980. (Revised September 2008.)
- 13 May 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Changing Landscape of Auditor Litigation and Its Implications for Audit Quality
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Business Age,” is a survey of the library’s manuscript collections that pertain to women’s history. Launched in 1999 with support from Rysia de Ravel (MBA ’83) and a grant from the Harvard University Women’s Matching Fund, the survey is... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
approach is not enough to ensure extraordinary financial performance, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program. He has defined a broader... View Details