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Marc Rotenberg, Georgetown University Law

01 Mar 2004
News

Warren Law Remembered

baeaf807ff44b783a02acf3d1d6a1e8a Warren A. Law, the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, in December. He was 79 years old. “Warren Law... View Details

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

January 2005
Case

Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads

By: David A. Moss, Mary Oey and Jonathan Lackow

Introduces the core principles and challenges of bankruptcy law (both individual and corporate) against the backdrop of the early 1970s, when the U.S. bankruptcy system appeared to be failing. With personal bankruptcy filings at record levels and successful corporate... View Details

Keywords: Change; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy; Government Legislation; United States

August 1985
Case

Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform

Robert Malott, Chairman and CEO of FMC, must decide whether or not to continue his work on product liability law reform, an issue on which he has worked for almost 10 years. Malott must decide how extensive his own involvement should be and what arguments he can or... View Details

Keywords: Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Legal Liability

April 2022
Case

Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law

By: Robin Ely, Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Olivia Hull

Follows the journey of lawyer Marsha Simms from her childhood in racially-segregated St. Louis to the upper echelons of the New York legal community. Describes her education, career choices, accomplishments, and setbacks. Highlights significant moments such as her... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company that makes proactive use of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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4.3 Missing Persons | MBA

external law enforcement agency, unless the local law enforcement agency was the entity that made the determination that the student is missing; (2) contact anyone the student has identified as a missing... View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

have much money to begin with can make savings more feasible or more fun, or both. Given the diversity of financial conditions, social settings, and personal circumstances of families, and against the backdrop of consumerism in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Jun 2015
News

A personal mission to serve veterans

Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009) served as assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014-15, where she helped to correct mismanagement problems that plagued the agency. “I can’t imagine anything more worthy of... View Details

08 Aug 2013
News

Cause Marketing Gets Personal

different departments. "NABCO was instrumental in changing the course of breast cancer screening, treatment, and care," she says. "Our physician and corporate partnerships to educate women replaced fear with facts. We helped craft and implement View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

Teaching Interest

MBA Elective Curriculum Personal Selling and Sales Force Management

Personal selling is the primary (and sometimes the only) form of marketing activity for many firms, especially in a business-to-business context. The course focuses on the tactical component of managing a salesforce and on the strategic element of linking sales... View Details

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GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws In the past few years, many countries and states have enacted laws to protect individuals' privacy. These laws cover any information that may be... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Deep Links: Business School Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business

Keywords: by Constance E. Bagley, Gavin Clarkson & Rachel Power; Legal Services

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

2010
Working Paper

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives

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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

processing or sharing of Personal Data by a Harvard Entity when those activities are within the scope of any Relevant Law. “Relevant Law” means any personal data protection law... View Details

March 2015
Case

Clifford Chance: Women at Work

By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly and Stephanie Marton

It was October 2013, and global law firm Clifford Chance was coming under fire for the second time in less than a year for reputedly failing to provide a supportive work environment for its female associates. A memo entitled "Speaking Effectively" was just issued to... View Details

Keywords: Women; Law; Fairness; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Human Capital; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Public Opinion; Problems and Challenges; Legal Services Industry; United States

Article

Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners

By: Peter DiScioli, Rachel Karpoff and Julian De Freitas

People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people’s judgments about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Dilemma; Finders; Psychology And Law; Ownership; Property; Law; Social Psychology

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January 2016
Case

Acxiom

By: John Deighton

Acxiom built the market for personal data, yet sales have been flat for a decade during which marketing's appetite for data has exploded. Will the acquisition of a digital data onboarder LiveRamp give marketers what they want from a data broker? View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Direct Marketing; Personal Data; Privacy; Digital Marketing; Retargeting; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Ethics; Marketing; United States