George: This is great news; how do we obtain a copy of your paper and
any other data you have?  Can you forward it electronically directly to
requestors?

Rick

DANIEL HERRON wrote:
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> Connie (et al.),
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> Yes, you did spell my name correctly (which doesn't happen often).
>
> When I visited at HBS last year, Lynn Paine asked me to give a presentation to
> faculty in the General Management group on the role of law in a business school
> curriculum.  This talk generated so much discussion that Lynn invited me to give
> a second presentation later in the semester.  (An alternative explanation is
> that my talk was so confusing that they wanted me to present it again.)  The
> talks apparently didn't dampen Harvard's interest in business law, as they
> recently created two new business law positions.  The new folks will join Lynn,
> Hank Reiling, the now-retired Joe Hinsey, and two lawyers in the Negotiations
> group--Mike Wheeler and Guhan Subramanian.  There are also a few lawyers
> scattered around the school who have PhDs in other disciplines and concentrate
> their research and teaching on those disciplines.
>
> After returning to Michigan, I gathered and analyzed data from over 900 senior
> managers in an attempt to determine how law ranks in value when compared with
> nine other core business school subjects.  The bottom line is that law ranks
> third in value to senior managers, behind OB/HRM and Finance. I incorporated the
> data analysis, along with several thoughts from my HBS presentations, into a
> paper that was presented in St. Louis last summer.
>
> I note in the paper that an OB/HRM faculty member (currently at UNC-Chapel Hill)
> conducted a survey of participants in one of our executive programs to determine
> the importance of four sets of issues "to the success and survival of your
> organization."  In his survey, legal and financial issues ranked second to
> quality, and ahead of people and process issues.
>
> I anticipate that you will enjoy your return to your alma mater.  At HBS I found
> incredible interest in the law across disciplines and an appreciation of the
> importance of law to managers.  Enjoy!  George