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Zia Mody

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

identifying areas for improvement. We try to work with them to fix issues.” The SEC can also rely on its hugely effective Whistleblower Program, which has paid more than $1.3 billion in awards to individuals who have reported violations of federal securities View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2003
News

Ruling from the Bench

with her family to watch Ralph Bellamy in Man Against Crime. After graduating from Radcliffe, it seemed logical that she would go on to law school. First, however, she enrolled in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

02 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain

her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details

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

01 Oct 2001
News

Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual

Christopher Cox In reviewing Christopher Cox's CV, one might assume that his career has been well thought out. Cox took only three years to earn a BA in English and political science at the University of Southern California; received a joint degree from HBS and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

her dual law and business degrees to fight some of the world's most disturbing criminals. Since 2011, Brochu, 42, has been the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's Expert on Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking, a position she... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

insurance was purchased (it is tax-deductible there); the canton buys health insurance for the uninsured and bills them; and welshers are sued under laws that allow confiscation of property. Some may view the Swiss as more law-abiding... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

In states with Republican-controlled legislatures, mass shootings lead to a significant increase in the number of laws that loosen gun restrictions. That’s one of several key findings in the study “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

publications and meeting minutes of pharmacist groups. “She was known as Mrs. Thomas Gleason until about 1934, when she begins to get introduced by her first name. In the story of California ‘fair trade’ I found this exceptional state jurisdiction for antitrust View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

23 Oct 2019
News

Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy

Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations

31 Jul 2019
News

Honoring the Code

law is going to be, I'm going to carry it out. “But in 2008, I'm now chairman, much different from 1993 when I wasn't involved. It just struck me that I'm leading an institution whose main value is integrity. And yet, I am asking young... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

University Elections

Pilkington & Ward LLP. New York, NY. Frances D. Fergusson, MA ’66, Ph.D. ’73; BA ’65, Wellesley College. President, Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY. William F. Lee, AB ’72; JD ’76, Cornell Law School; MBA ’76, Cornell University.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

20 Sep 2011
News

A Taxing Question

subsidiaries of US firms is supposed to be taxed at the corporate rate of 35 percent. But the law provides a huge loophole that allows companies to sidestep paying any tax on foreign profits as long as the money stays outside the US.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services

Article

Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: S. Bernstein, A. Korteweg and K. Laws

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Find at Harvard

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

students at the student-organized Leadership and Ethics Forum last March. Under Reich's review was a labor inspector's ruling that a batboy for the minor-league Savannah Cardinals be removed from his dream job because of laws prohibiting... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

Department of Justice for more than eight years, prosecuting child exploitation and human-trafficking crimes. "The UN is in a position to coordinate and incentivize countries to work together to develop laws and practices that are... View Details

22 Apr 2019
News

Keeping an Eye on Things

combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does help View Details

Keywords: Biometrics

17 Sep 2021
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

assisted more immigrants than any single law firm—more than 7,000 a year—and the company boasts a success rate of 99.7 percent. Ever-changing immigration policy is one challenge for Boundless, which is constantly updating its application... View Details

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