Law - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2014
News

Chief of Staff Hits a Chord with Mayor Walsh

Keywords: Huffington; Boston; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

11 Sep 2013
News

Lhota Hopes to Capitalize on Elite Dismay Over a Liberal Tilt

Keywords: New York City; mayor; Bloomberg; Government

01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

When the stakes are high - in business, politics, or everyday life - it pays to take a page from the playbook of the world's greatest negotiators. And if you want to learn how to be a world-class negotiator, consider how Richard Holbrooke helped defuse the war in... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

charter permitting preemption of state law. The Internet is not bound by any one state, and the market for loans online is no exception—regulation must reflect this new reality. However, regulators should not simply mandate all federal View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

08 Dec 2017
News

Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details

Keywords: politics

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

current system thwarted union organizing? A union election is supposed to be the expression of the employees’ desires to bargain collectively and choose their own representatives. Yet, the law allows employers to require employees to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Sep 2013
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C.D. Spangler's School of Thought

C.D. Spangler At HBS, C.D. ("Dick") Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956) has long been known as "both gracious and wise." In May, a Harvard University citation made it official, describing Spangler in those words as he was awarded an honorary doctor of View Details

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

01 Dec 2002
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Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

concern about the current crisis in corporate America. “Safeguarding people's pensions is one of my top priorities as U.S. Secretary of Labor,” she said, lauding the corporate governance reforms signed into law recently by President... View Details

December 2017
Case

Charity or Bribery?

By: Eugene Soltes and Brian Tilley

Filip Kowalski, a senior manager at the pharmaceutical company Healthgen, leads sales for the firm’s Polish division. While pitching Healthgen’s products, he develops a relationship with a director of a regional health fund who also runs a private foundation. After a... View Details

Keywords: Bribery; Crime and Corruption; Law; Ethics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States; Europe

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January 2017
Article

Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching

By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers

We develop a model of many-to-many matching with contracts that subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the... View Details

Keywords: Many-to-Many Matching; Stability; Substitutes; Contract Design; Contracts; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability

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October 2014
Technical Note

Legal Hazards of Product Launches

By: Lena Goldberg and Annelena Lobb

This note considers common legal pitfalls associated with the launch of new products. A series of questions are presented that companies poised to launch a product should keep in mind. Questions about advertising, pricing, and branding are explored, as well as who in a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Legal Liability

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August 2010
Article

Antitrust—What Role for Strategic Management Expertise?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao

Keywords: Strategy; Management; Experience and Expertise; Law

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Risk-Spreading Properties of Common Tax and Contract Instruments

By: James K. Sebenius and Peter Stan

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Taxation; Contracts

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July 1991
Supplement

Retail Promotional Pricing: When Is a Sale Really a Sale? (B)

Provides the court's decision in the May D&F case, and updates the controversy surrounding high-low retail pricing. View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Price; Judgments; Retail Industry

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17 Oct 2014
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Laying the groundwork for a career in Africa

Nneka Ezeigwe (MBA 2015) is looking to make an impact in her native Nigeria through entrepreneurial ventures and work in the public sector. (Published October 2014) View Details

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

whether the Section and the Law of which it is a part will have the desired effects. This suggests the importance of tracking both the costs and benefits of the Law. There is little or no provision to do either in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
News

Peter W. Olson: By the Book

went directly to HBS; after earning a joint degree from Harvard Law School, he worked as an associate with law firms in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo before moving to international banking. "I learned Russian... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

July 2024
Article

Buying the Verdict

By: Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun

We document evidence that firms systematically increase specialized, locally targeted advertising following the firm being taken to trial in that given location, precisely following initiation of the suit. In particular, we use legal actions brought against publicly... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Advertising; Marketing Strategy