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Guhan Subramanian
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Harvard Law School Commencement 2017
May 25, 2017
On Thursday, May 25, the Harvard Law School Class of 2017 braved the rain to pick up their diplomas and officially become HLS graduates. Here's a look at their day of celebration with family, friends and a steady supply of rain ponchos.
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...And he said he added some new furniture: Chairs across from the Resolute desk -- the seat of power for presidents including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan -- where he asks his visitors to sit. "I changed the -- the way it works," Trump said, motioning toward chairs right in front of the famous desk. "I'll have people sitting here. Used to be they never had chairs that anybody can remember in front of the desk. But I've always done it this way where I'm at the desk and I have people here."...Meanwhile, negotiations experts say that sitting across a table or desk from an opponent doesn't usually send a signal of cooperation. "It's fair to say that if you deliberately have people sitting across the table from you, you’re conveying less of a collaborative approach and more of a hierarchical or adversarial approach," says Guhan Subramanian, a professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
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All-Star Team on a Winning Streak
October 5, 2015
Corporate governance scholars at Harvard Law keep putting up great numbers.
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The legal journal Corporate Practice Commentator recently announced the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2014. Half of those selected this year were written by Harvard Law School faculty members.
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Icahn Stirs Activist Pot on Possible Takeovers
January 23, 2015
Carl Icahn thinks that eBay Inc. ’s PayPal and Gannett Co. ’s publishing business will be prime takeover targets when they soon become independent. And he is trying to make sure nothing gets in a suitor’s way. In a corporate-governance double punch that began this week with a pact with eBay and a missive Thursday to Gannett, the billionaire joined other activist investors pushing back against a recent trend in which spun-off companies are cloaked with tough takeover defenses...Some observers said the defenses are justified. “With activists prowling everywhere these days…it’s not unreasonable to give brand-new companies a little breathing room,” said Guhan Subramanian, a professor at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.
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Interdisciplinary collaborations on the rise
January 29, 2013
Since the founding of the joint J.D./M.B.A. program 43 years ago, the boundaries between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School have grown more porous.
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Mnookin honored by International Academy of Mediators with Lifetime Achievement Award
December 4, 2012
Professor Robert Mnookin ’68, chairman of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, was honored by the International Academy of Mediators with a lifetime achievement award. The IAM Award is presented to a person who has made exceptional contributions throughout his or her career by personally advancing alternative dispute resolution and inspiring others to do so.
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Harvard Law School has launched a new program to develop and distribute case studies, role plays, hypothetical problems and other experiential tools for the classroom. The centerpiece of the program is a website designed as a one-stop-shop for all participant-centered teaching tools developed and sponsored by HLS.
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Bridging theory and practice in corporate law
January 24, 2012
For the last several years, former Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark ’72 has broken with tradition in teaching his mergers and acquisitions course. It isn’t enough to read leading cases, he realized; students still may leave the classroom without any real understanding of how to structure a deal, identify and avoid pitfalls, and recognize why personalities matter—in short, how M&As work in the real world.
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Harvard faculty and fellows contribute most of the ‘Top Ten Corporate and Securities Law Articles’ of 2010
June 3, 2011
This year’s list of “Top Ten Corporate and Securities Articles” based on an annual poll of corporate and securities law academics includes six articles authored or co-authored by Harvard Law faculty and fellows. The top ten articles, selected from a field of more than 440 pieces, will be reprinted in an upcoming issue of the Corporate Practice Commentator.
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The Olin Advantage
August 16, 2010
Lisa Bernstein ’90 knew from her first day of law school that she wanted to be a professor, though as time went on, she wondered whether that would be possible without top grades or law review credentials. What helped to set her apart from other applicants, she says, was the paper she wrote—and mentoring she received—as an Olin Fellow during law school.
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Fighting on Several Fronts
April 1, 2010
In his book "Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace,” Professor Guhan Subramanian says that, traditionally, academics have looked at deals through one of two lenses. One branch of research examines auction theory, with roots in game theory and microeconomics. Another looks at negotiations, combining microeconomics with experimental economics, social psychology, behavior economics and law.
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2009 Year in Review: Faculty Publications
December 14, 2009
In their book,“No Place to Hide: Gang, State, and Clandestine Violence in El Salvador” (Harvard University Press, 2009), Clinical Professor James Cavallaro and Spring…
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HLS and HBS professors submit open letter to SEC
August 21, 2009
A group of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School professors submitted an open letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission last week offering changes to a new SEC policy proposal that would allow shareholders to nominate directors.
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This year’s list of 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles, as chosen by the legal journal “Corporate Practice Commentator,” includes a selection from HLS Professor Guhan Subramanian ’98, who was honored for his recent article examining the role of go-shop clauses in private equity deals from 2005-2007.
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The Ultimate Cafeteria
July 29, 2008
With the help of Harvard Law School’s new curriculum reforms, it’s getting easier for law students to take part in Harvard University’s intellectual feast.
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Writings by Professors Lucian Bebchuk LL.M. '80 S.J.D. '84, Mark Roe '75, and Guhan Subramanian '98 were included on this year's list of 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles, published in the legal journal "Corporate Practice Commentator."
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Designing the deal
September 1, 2005
Some of the biggest deal makers put the world on hold while they teach in a class led by Professor Guhan Subramanian '98. But they're also there to learn a thing or two about negotiation.
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Both Sides Now
April 24, 2003
By the time Guhan Subramanian J.D./M.B.A. '98 left the Harvard Business School faculty for the HLS faculty last summer, Harvard Law School had transformed the 1L experience from when he was a student.