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What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
Female Supreme Court Justices Are Interrupted More by Male Justices and Advocates
Global Business Digital ArticleWomen have adapted by being less polite themselves. -
Collaborating Well in Large Global Teams, Arabic Version
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Why Women and People of Color in Law Still Hear "You Don't Look Like a Lawyer"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInterviews with black female lawyers shed new light on the obstacles they face. -
When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
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Getting Your Team to Buy into a Big Change
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Points of Law: Unbundling Corporate Legal Services to Unlock Value
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleTraditionally, big law firms and corporate legal departments have enjoyed a close relationship—one that is based on both trust and regulation. Clients rely on firms to discern legal boundaries and the risks associated with misjudging them; counsel are under a professional obligation to identify and raise potential problems and to handle them competently and thoroughly. […] -
Putting Products into Services
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHigh-end professional services firms, unlike product companies, traditionally experience only linear revenue growth. That's because selling more services... -
Better Sales Networks
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleAnyone in sales will tell you that social networks are critical. The more contacts you have, the more leads you'll generate and, ultimately, the more...
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William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel... -
Clifford Chance: Women at Work
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Justice-as-a-Service at RightNow
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses... -
Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative... -
Managing the Client Portfolio
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The German country managing partner of a global law firm must decide how to respond to a corporate mandate to restructure its client portfolio. The case... -
Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Nord Stream 2, a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea, was a critical project for Gazprom,... -
DLA Piper's Capital Markets Practice
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details No abstract available. -
Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details After nearly 100 years as a mid-size regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Using Influence Strategies to Promote Gender Equality
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William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel... -
People Management, The Mantra for Success: The Case of Singhania and Partners
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case is about HR practices at Singhania and Partners, one of the largest full-service national law firms in India. People are at the core of the services... -
Accenture's Code of Business Ethics, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study15.05View Details Leaders of Accenture's compliance and ethics program are seeking to design a new code of business ethics for its global workforce of over 400,000 employees.... -
The CRISPR-Cas9 Quarrel
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In mid-2016, the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled... -
Fantasy Sports: A Game of Skill or Chance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Fantasy sports is the fastest growing online gaming industry worth several billion dollars. An important debate associated with fantasy sports across... -
Give Us a 'C'! Killing Knock-offs with Copyright?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Varsity Brands, the leading manufacturer of cheerleading uniforms in the U.S., obtained copyright protection for certain designs of stripes, chevrons,... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Using Influence Strategies to Promote Gender Equality, Supplement
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Wachtell Lipton: Focused Excellence
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Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Proposed in 2012, Nord Stream 2 was a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea. Gazprom,... -
Axiom - Law Redefined: Innnovation in Legal Services
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Axiom, an innovative player providing legal services to corporates, develops service lines to provide lawyers on secondment to clients and managed services...
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What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDuring economic slowdowns, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn't, just to keep... -
Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel... -
Clifford Chance: Women at Work
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform, Teaching Note
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Justice-as-a-Service at RightNow
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses... -
Collaborating for Growth: Duane Morris in a Turbulent Legal Sector
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details By the late 2000s, the law firm Duane Morris had transformed itself from a growing U.S. law firm to a significant global player. The firm's uniquely collaborative... -
Managing the Client Portfolio
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The German country managing partner of a global law firm must decide how to respond to a corporate mandate to restructure its client portfolio. The case... -
The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP, Teaching Note
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Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Nord Stream 2, a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea, was a critical project for Gazprom,...