Dear Colleagues,

Richard Shell has written a great book Make the Rules or Your Rivals Will
on how managers can help shape the legal environment and how law affects
Porter's five forces.


Not to be immodest, but pls also consider the cases I've authored for
Stanford GSB and HBS, which are available at harvard.hbsp.edu. I also have
a new working paper out on legal competency as a potential source of
sustainable competitive advantage under the resource-based view of the
firm, which I'm happy to share w/ anyone interested. Finally Harvard
Business School Press just accepted my manuscript for a new book entitled
Winning Legally: Adding Law to the Manager's Strategic Tool Kit, which
should be out in mid-2005. T/C follows:

Maximizing Value and Minimizing Risk
Playing by the Rules
Cultivating Compliance for Strategic Strength
Using Contracts to Define and Strengthen Relationships
Capturing the Value of Intellectual Capital
Protecting Brand Equity
Unleashing the Power of Human Capital
Managing Disputes
Achieving the Advice Advantage

All the best,

Connie Bagley

At 02:03 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote:

>I'd like to piggyback on this request, if Lee doesn't mind, and expand
>on it.  I will be teaching six classes on legal affairs to MBAs, as part
>of a required course on political economy and law.  Last year, I had one
>class on torts, another on contracts, a third on intellectual property,
>a fourth on securities law, a fifth on antitrust, and a sixth on
>litigation.  I would be very interested for suggestions on the
>following:
>
>1.  Other major topics that should be addressed, probably in lieu of one
>of the above.
>
>2.  Opinions concerning the most relevant topics to address within the
>above subjects (e.g., "I think the most vital matter to educate MBAs
>about intellectual property is __").
>
>3.  Suggested readings (e.g., exercises, cases, articles, and so forth),
>recognizing that this is not an endeavor that warrants the standard 500
>page legal environment textbook.
>
>I know this a broad inquiry, probably too broad, but I thought I should
>check to see if anyone on the list had wrestled with the same thing, or
>was willing to . . .   Unless of general interest, replies should
>probably be sent to me privately.  Thanks!
>
>Best,
>
>Ed Swaine
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lee Reed [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:43 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: EMBA Materials
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I'm looking for some in-class exercises that will be
>valuable for my 40 EMBA students, average age 35, many with
>significant entrpreneurial or executive-level experience. If
>you have suggestions and materials that you're willing to
>pass on to me, I will be much appreciative. I'm thinking
>along the lines of something involving a contract
>negotiation problem, a managerially-related tort crisis, a
>corporate governance dilemma, an employment discrimination
>blowup, the deposition from hell -- that sort of thing.
>Maybe it will require the whole class to participate. Maybe
>it will require teams to compete for solutions. I'm open to
>different approaches. You may contact me privately at
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>
>Many thanks,
>Lee



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