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- 1993
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Aspects of Financial Contracting in Venture Capital
- 05 Nov 2014
- News
The Men Behind the Mayors: How Business Can Impact Government
- February 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
Business and Human Rights
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
This note addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the relation between human rights and business. Topics include the definition of human rights, the business leader's role regarding human rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Human Capital; Legal Liability; Rights; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Business and Human Rights." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-097, February 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- Article
Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers
By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertising presents remarkable efficiencies—better targeting, improved measurement and greater return on investment. Yet there are challenges, particularly when networks of intermediaries place ads through convoluted relationships, and all the more so when... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Rights; Measurement and Metrics; Investment Return; Negotiation; Networks; Problems and Challenges; Performance Efficiency; Law; Advertising Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers." Advertising Week (September 21, 2009).
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
First love: Performing. “I spent pretty much every weekend from the age of five singing, acting, and dancing at the local theater school.” Take a bow: “My dad is originally from Zambia. Back in the day he bought rudimentary music software and laid down guitar tracks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2018
Harvard Graduate School Information Session in New York City
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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
success in China was tough. The country may be huge, Kirkwood advised, but in an elephantine market, it was best to "be a grasshopper." And when it came to payments and accounts receivable - forget credit - "cash equals quality." Joining Kirkwood on the panel were Gao... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- Web
2+2 Application Process | MBA
who have not held a full-time work position (other than internships or co-ops) are eligible to apply. To be eligible for the 2+2 program, candidates need to have gone directly from undergraduate to graduate school. PhD Programs, Law... View Details
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Mobility Policy | About
technology are bringing a wide range of personal mobility devices to the market. This policy seeks to provide a safe environment for all users of campus pathways and roadways. What devices fall under this policy? Motorized bicycles : A pedal bicycle, as defined by... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Most people have a conventional view of incarceration: People convicted of breaking the law are criminals, and criminals are locked up in big prisons with lots of other criminals. Yet, even as a preteen, Jennifer Porter Anderson (MBA... View Details
- 29 Jul 2015
Harvard Graduate School Information Session in New York City
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
- Web
Deals - Course Catalog
Wednesdays during the entirety of class time. Paper Enrollment: Limited to 42 HBS and 42 HLS students Overview: This advanced negotiation course examines complex corporate deals. Many of the class sessions will be structured around actual corporate deals, selected for... View Details
- April 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
BitTorrent
Involves the copyright issues associated with Bram Cohen's revolutionary software program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is... View Details
Keywords: Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Applications and Software; Copyright; Internet and the Web
Bagley, Constance E., and Reed Martin. "BitTorrent." Harvard Business School Case 806-169, April 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Community-First Public Safety
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details
Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020. (Revised June 2022.)
- Profile
Kurt White
platoon in Iraq. “He was in his second year of law school and he said, ‘I know how you think. You would love law school.’ Law would help me understand the rules of the game.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets
- 2016
- Working Paper
Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?
By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim
Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender
Healy, Paul, and George Serafeim. "Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-148, June 2016.
- July 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)
Coolidge (CKC), a chemical manufacturer, is being sued for patent infringement. The plaintiffs are the patent holder and its sole licensee, who is also a CKC competitor. An analyst at CKC has done a breakeven decision analysis from CKC's perspective, balancing going to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Courts and Trials; Patents; Analysis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemical Industry
Hammond, John S. "C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 607-006, July 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- 29 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Will I Stay or Will I Go? How Gender and Race Affect Turnover at ‘Up-or-Out’ Organizations
Date of Event: May 10, 2010 Speakers: Kathleen McGinn Gender and racial inequalities continue to persist at "up-or- out" knowledge organizations such as law firms, making it difficult for women and minorities to advance to... View Details
- February 1988 (Revised November 1988)
- Teaching Note
James vs. United States, Teaching Note
By: Henry B. Reiling
Teaching Note for (9-284-073). View Details