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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
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
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
The paper also leads to new perspectives on the firm as a legal entity and on the relationship between the Knightian and Coasian views of the firm. Cases & Course MaterialsAppellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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through contract and deal design. Career Focus: This course is restricted to JD and MBA students and is geared towards preparing those students to face complex deals of many different natures. In the spring, there are often guest practitioners that join the course, and... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
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
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
Desai, Mihir A., Suzanne Antoniou, and Leanne Fan. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 221-039, October 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
trading. The case explores Gupta’s rise and the later legal problems he faced. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case PEL-080 Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
marketmakers have come to the fore. Current counterparts to the free-standing enterprises of the early 20th century in the performance of administrative arbitrage can be found in national capital that camouflages itself as foreign capital to secure better View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
also extended to the companies in which XTV invested. These were structured as separate legal entities, with their own boards and officers. XTV sought to recruit employees from other start-ups who were familiar with managing new... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
indeed as mutually opposed? Dr. Connell’s current research project considers the legal and cultural ramifications of recent gender and sexual policy change in the US military, from the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to the gender... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
world, where a simple phrase speaks volumes: “No guanxi — no business.” Translation: No relationships — no business. Relationships take on added importance in China because they tend to make up for weak legal and regulatory institutions,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and resolves corporate... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
eras; I’ve created several of those, with protagonists confronting new and different challenges at each moment.) Still, I’m willing to take on a new novelist, and maybe a series will follow. Former prosecutor Michael McAuliffe has written a timely View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
created a five-year “waiting period” for legal immigrants to receive federal benefits. However, when the State Child Health Insurance Program was passed in the following year, 15 states chose to insure newly arrived immigrant children... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Venture Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Joacim Tåg Abstract—We survey the literature on venture capital and institutions and present a case study comparing the development of the venture capital market in the United States and Sweden. Our literature survey underscores... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
Marquis, Doug Guthrie, and Juan Almandoz Publication:Social Science Research (forthcoming) Abstract A number of studies have shown that, as a result of the ambiguity of U.S. legal mandates, organizations have considerable latitude in how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
by Harvard Business School's Aldo Musacchio in the BGIE Unit, showing that this hypothesis has little empirical support. A careful study of 19th-century French and American law, for example, found little difference between the two countries in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
environmental, social, and governance proposition to value creation, both in top line growth, cost reductions, regulatory and legal interventions, and avoiding some of those interventions, productivity uplift by their workers, and asset... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
possibly quite a dangerous one. As I’ve said, traditional deficit spending won’t be nearly sufficient when people are afraid to go out or are legally barred from going out. Again, we can’t really solve the core economic problem without... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
the world. Handholding and Strong Medicine: HBS and the Consulting Industry As a young lawyer with degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, Marvin Bower (MBA '30) believed that a new kind of professional organization, equipped with View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
done so largely without any legal or regulatory guardrails. Join us for a case discussion exploring two major challenges facing the company and society: privacy and trust breaches, and a growing sense of the “tragedy of the commons” in... View Details