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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507024 Lobbying Harvard Business School Note 707-471 Describes how companies engage the political and legal system and the rules and ethics associated with doing so. Focuses... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective, costly, or counter-productive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
legal expertise of her identical twin sister, Karen, could be used to make a difference. Together they founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998 with the goal of speeding the development of new treatments and, one day,... 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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work on their behalf using a library proxy account. To apply: Faculty provide details about the intended proxy, including that person’s legal name. Faculty provide details about themselves. Faculty agree to take responsibility for the... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
strategic implications of ending the agreement? What are the legal implications of continuing? Where is the line between cooperation and conspiracy, and what should a company do if the legality of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
privacy to employee and customer safety, as well as crisis management, compliance, and internal audits.” “We all make risk-based decisions every day. The same is true in my business at a higher, broader level. A few months ago, we launched a Brexit risk impact... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
to the failing performance and then encouraging everyone to focus on making hard decisions quickly," says Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith, whose office shares a small hallway with Hood’s. So what was the plan to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
legacy of this unfortunate war.” The book closes as one would hope: with proposals for change. The eighteen measures include political and legal modifications to make war authorization more difficult, greater transparency on actual war... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
respond. When the system is decentralized, there’s no owner, and often not even a central legal institution wrapped around it. If the system somehow decided to take half of my bitcoin holdings and give them to you, there’s nothing I could... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
there appears to be no legal defense against the knockoff game in women's fashion, network TV executives are apparently helpless to defend against it regardless of how much time they spend deploring the practice. One victim of the Fox... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
constraints, but more importantly, catalyze other investors through demonstration effects, creating and shaping markets in places where there are none today. As a financially autonomous, legally separate entity within the World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
and Perez Cavazos identified False Claim Act cases against publicly listed companies and matched the legal filings with detailed contract specifications. They assessed the contract relationship between the firm and the government entity... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
might be threatened. Rob Houck reminds us that considerations of potential legal liability often inhibit transparency in such cases. Should the public sector wait for an "invitation" for its intervention? The sentiment here... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
of 'we're all in the same lifeboat' is a useful one, both for management . . . and for unions . . . " Tim Pinel is more optimistic. He says "Perhaps the lack of legal and cultural uniformity on a global basis is what will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
with a live finale in which a winner and runner up (as well as crowd favorite) are selected. The winner receives $50,000 in cash prizes and the runner up receives $25,000 – and both receive significant in-kind legal service prizes. This... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
for sovereign debts are minimal since little can be used as collateral and the ability of a court to force a sovereign entity to comply has been extremely limited, especially given the lack of a supranational legal authority capable of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
attorney to live her entrepreneurial dream, had to learn everything about the baking business from scratch. She worked with an East Coast bakery consultant to get training, recipes, and equipment. With her legal background, HBS... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
environment, and mend its sometimes-cantankerous relationship with its 1 million-plus drivers, who are independent contractors. Besides, Kanter says, the company needs to rethink whether it makes sense to fight one controversial legal... View Details