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Educators

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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Teaching Interest

Overview

Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. View Details

10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich

January 1984 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Johnson vs. United States

By: Henry B. Reiling

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation

January 15, 2010
Article

Revisiting the Rights and Responsibilities of Business

By: Bill George

Keywords: Rights; Business Ventures

July 2009 (Revised March 2010)
Teaching Note

Airbus vs. Boeing: Parts (TN) (A) to (F)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell

Teaching Note for [707447], [707448], [707449]. [707450], [707451], and [707452]. View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation

October 2006 (Revised January 2007)
Teaching Note

Meinhard v. Salmon (Abridged) and Mall of America (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Henry B. Reiling and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Retail Industry

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

Educators

September 1970
Article

Recent Liability Cases - Implications for Accountants

By: Henry B. Reiling and Russell A. Taussig

Keywords: Legal Liability; Accounting

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

cocaine, it was just so ubiquitous. And that was the money that corrupted this city. Money bought law enforcement, money bought the protection. I mean, even people who worked in this hotel, like the one waitress, the hostess who I... View Details

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

skills development." Other essentials for governments, Donovan said, are a willingness to privatize businesses, and to follow the rule of law "as opposed to the rule of individual parties and special interests." Another is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 24, 2024
Editorial

Absolute Presidential Immunity Threatens National Security

By: Louis Caldera, George W. Casey Jr., Thad Allen, Deborah Lee James, Carlton Fulford, Craig McKinley, Sean O'Keefe and John Jumper

Keywords: Government Administration; Lawfulness; National Security

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07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

pre-shift briefing room featured in (1970s TV hit) Hill Street Blues? “Be careful out there!” Perhaps that is the seventh sense we all need to adopt.” The tone of Jobc’s comment was that the issue does not require more laws: “Only diligent enforcement of existing View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Feb 2016
News

In the ‘Spotlight’

Catholic Church. “This is something I love to do, work on real-life stories, because I’m a student at heart,” Singer told Harvard Law Today last week. “I love doing research on topics I have absolutely no knowledge of. “I don’t know if... View Details

April 2011
Case

Hermitage's Russian Quandary (A)

By: Eric Werker, Ray Fisman and Lauren Weber

In June 2007, the offices of Russian hedge fund Hermitage Capital were raided by Moscow police; in the months that followed, Hermitage founder Bill Browder found himself banned from Russia and fending off efforts to expropriate the fund's Russian assets. This case... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Private Equity; Investment; Law Enforcement; Laws and Statutes; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Moscow

Educators

October 1980 (Revised October 1981)
Case

Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (A2)

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Law

June 12, 2023
Article

The Limits of Capacity Building for Investment Contract Negotiations

By: Karl P. Sauvant, Vanessa Sze Wai Tsang and Louis T. Wells

Developing countries must negotiate the best possible investment contracts with foreign investors at the outset. Donor organizations regularly push for “capacity building” to create technical expertise for negotiations within host country governments. But building and... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Contracts; Negotiation