Publications

December 2003 (Revised August 2006)
Background Note

Grutter v. Bollinger: A Synopsis

By: Lynn S. Paine

In June 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, upholding the principle of affirmative action in university admissions, which had been challenged as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment. This case includes... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation

September 1970
Article

Recent Liability Cases - Implications for Accountants

By: Henry B. Reiling and Russell A. Taussig

Keywords: Legal Liability; Accounting

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (MBA 1980), the elective course attracted 52 students, with one-third coming from the Law School. Tufano recently talked about the course and his determination to... View Details

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

07 Jul 2020

Joint Degree Series: Harvard Graduate Joint Degree Virtual Event

This virtual event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are... View Details

10 Jul 2019

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Atlanta

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are... View Details

27 Jul 2015

Harvard Graduate School Information Session in Washington, DC

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School. In addition, admissions representatives from Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School will be in attendance to discuss their programs.... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness... View Details

Keywords: nonprofit; social impact; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelors of Laws degree from the University of Manitoba, a Master’s in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, and five Doctor of Laws (Hon.) degrees.... View Details

February 2003 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Arthur Andersen LLP

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen

This case highlights the history of Arthur Andersen and the collapse of the firm following the Enron Corp. audit and the Department of Justice obstruction of justice conviction. View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Statements; Business Exit or Shutdown; Lawfulness; United States

March 2004
Article

Do Police Reduce Crime? Estimates Using the Allocation of Police Forces after a Terrorist Attack

By: Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate causal effects of police on crime. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, all Jewish institutions received police protection. Thus, this hideous event... View Details

Keywords: Law Enforcement; Crime and Corruption; Resource Allocation; National Security

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01 Dec 2013
News

Campaign Season

Photos by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer On September 21, Harvard University officially launched The Harvard Campaign with a series of events, featuring a speech by Harvard President Drew Faust and "The Future of Knowledge" faculty panel, which was moderated by... View Details

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

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

Summing Up One of the defining issues in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, NAFTA, has fallen off the radar in the current campaign. This suggests either that many in the U.S. have lost interest in it or, more likely, the subset who visit the HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

Worldwide financial markets are in a period of extraordinary change, as they gear up for more and more volume, work out an assortment of mergers and consolidations, contemplate the reality of 24-hour global trading, adopt new advances in security, and continue to... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

August 22, 1998
Article

The New Moral Contract

By: Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher Bartlett

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Contracts

Article

Bilateral Contracts

By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja

A mathematical characterization of self-enforcing bilateral contracts is given. Contracts where both parties exercise some control over the quantity traded can sometimes be superior to contracts that rest control entirely with one side. Some qualitative characteristics... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Mathematical Methods

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September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

An Innovative Anti-bribery Commitment?

By: Eugene Soltes

Reebonz, an online luxury goods platform based in Singapore that operates across the Asia-Pacific region, offers its investors the opportunity to redeem shares if either the firm or its founder are investigated by the U.S. or U.K governments with regard to complying... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; United Kingdom Bribery Act; Law; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Asia

October 2007 (Revised March 2009)
Background Note

Structuring Real Estate Deals: An Investor's Perspective

By: Arthur I Segel

Addresses the following questions: What are the portfolio-level implications? What are the asset-level characteristics? How do I invest? With whom do I invest? What do I get for my investment? What protections do I have? When and how do I get out? View Details

Keywords: Property; Negotiation; Contracts; Real Estate Industry