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- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-023 This note analyses and compares the legal definitions and practical applications of Business Method... View Details
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
European distribution rights to two highly lucrative drugs. Purchase this exercise:http://hbr.org/search/911044-PDF-ENG Remicade/Simponi: Legal Memorandum Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Supplement 911-046... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
values from other societies, from other communities. Both in terms of professional skills, in terms of just personal attributes. We're building a business at Andela, it's not a social enterprise, it's not a nonprofit. I think any good business in Africa that is doing... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
of legal systems. Many of the arguments have been theoretically, rather than empirically, informed. The subject of "capitalism," too, which is thriving in American graduate history programs, appears to have the potential to... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
other outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, Los Angeles Times, and Harvard Business Review. She has twice received the Dukeminier Award for the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity. Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Phillips Sawyer Cambridge University Press This book explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term “fair trade” from the late 19th century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
students studying legal aspects of management. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312033-PDF-ENG Edna McConnell Clark Foundation—Enabling a Performance Driven Philanthropic Capital Market Allen Grossman and Aldo... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Sexual Harassment Harvard Business School Note 308-096 This note provides an introduction to the law of sexual harassment. It has three parts. Part One describes the laws on harassment in the United States. Part Two explores controversial and emerging aspects of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart telecommunications firm that waged a View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
legal and business issues versus his desire to land the key customer. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812050-PDF-ENG Grand Circle Travel: Where Risk Comes with the Territory Herman B. LeonardHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
believed to be more fundamental to self-identity (e.g., social comfort) than traits considered less fundamental to self-identity (e.g., concentration ability). Moral acceptability of a trait enhancement strongly predicted people's desire to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
watched, and if anything happened to them, if they showed up that day with bruises, the world would know about it. So there was an aspect of helping with the legal defense as much as we could, providing support and care for them while... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
Facebook John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-110 In late 2008, executives at Coca-Cola had to decide what to do with a fan-created page on Facebook that had amassed over one million followers in three months. From a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne