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The Teaching Team
Nanda has a Ph.D. in business economics (Harvard), A.M. in Economics (Harvard), PGDM in management (IIM Ahmedabad), and B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering (IIT Delhi). Before coming to Harvard for his Ph.D., he worked for five years with the Tata group of companies as Tata Administrative Services Officer. A recipient of the Henry B. Arthur Fellowship, the Center in Ethics Nanda has advised law firms and inside counsel in companies as well as other professional service organizations including accounting, actuarial benefits consulting, advertising, asset management, engineering consulting, executive search, human resource consulting, investment banking, IT consulting, management consulting, public relations, strategy consulting, and real estate firms. His work with these firms has spanned: (a) strategic planning, including designing and executing strategic planning process and reviewing alliance strategies and options; (b) developing organizational strategy, including organizational structure design and review of communication processes; (c) reviewing governance systems, including independent analysis of executive and oversight bodies and succession planning; (d) analyzing people practices, including compensation systems, recruitment and retention practices at partner and associate level; and (e) designing and delivering leadership programs.
Professor Subramanian’s research explores topics in negotiations, corporate dealmaking, and deal process design. He has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Business Review, and the Harvard Law Review, among other places. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal’s “Heard on the Street” column, the New York Times, the American Lawyer, The Deal’s “Corporate Control Alert.” His new book Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace (Norton 2010) synthesizes the findings from his research and teaching over the past decade. Professor Subramanian has been involved in major public company deals such as Oracle’s $10.3 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, Cox Enterprises’ $8.9 billion freeze-out of the minority shareholders in Cox Communications, the $6.6 billion leveraged buyout of Toys “R” Us, and Exelon’s $8.0 billion hostile takeover bid for NRG. He also advises individuals, boards of directors, and management teams on issues of dealmaking and corporate governance. Professor Subramanian holds degrees in Economics, Law, and Business, all from Harvard University
George G. Triantis
Professor Triantis began his academic career in 1989 on the faculties of Law and of Management at the University of Toronto. His teaching and scholarship are in the fields of contracts, business law and bankruptcy. His recent work includes “Strategic Vagueness in Contracts: The Case of Corporate Acquisitions” (Yale Law Journal, 2010) and “Completing Contracts in the Shadow of Verification Costs” (Journal of Legal Studies 2008), as well the book, Foundations of Commercial Law (Foundation Press, 2010). He is a former editor of the Journal of Law & Economics and a former director of the American Law and Economics Association. Professor Triantis is currently Vice-Chair of the Avoiding Powers subcommittee of the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee, and a member of the American Law Institute and the American Law and Economics Association.
David Wilkins Wilkins has written over 60 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author (along with his Harvard Law School colleague Andrew Kaufman) of one of the leading case books in the field. His current scholarly projects on the profession include After the J.D., a ten-year nationwide longitudinal study of lawyers’ careers, a quantitative and qualitative examination of how corporations purchase legal services, an empirical project on the development of “ethical infrastructure” in large law firms based on a series of focus groups with leading practitioners and regulators, and over 200 in-depth interviews in connection with a forthcoming Oxford University Press book on the development of the black corporate bar. Wilkins also teaches several courses on lawyers and other related professionals, including the country’s only four credit course on the Legal Profession, a course entitled “Professional Service Firms in the Twenty First Century,” seminars on The Future of the Large Law Firm and Cause Lawyers, and an introductory lecture for all first year students on the legal profession and careers. Professor Wilkins is a frequent speaker at academic conferences, law firms and other professional service organizations, and bar groups both in the United States and around the world. He is also a member of Harvard University’s Task Force on Professional Schools.
In addition, Executive Education programs will benefit from the insights of visiting faculty Michele DeStefano and Kevin Doolan. Michele DeStefano In addition to spearheading Law Without Walls with Michael Bossone, Professor DeStefano teaches courses about the Legal Profession, professional responsibility, civil procedure, and business associations. From 2003 to 2004, Professor DeStefano clerked for Chief Judge William G. Young of the Federal District Court of Massachusetts. Before attending law school, she was a Senior Marketing Manager at Levi Strauss & Company (1995-1998) and an Account Executive at Leo Burnett Advertising Company (1991-1995). Professor DeStefano earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College and has been admitted to the Massachusetts, Minnesota, and District of Columbia bars. Kevin Doolan Professor Doolan studied for his MBA at Henley Management College, during which time he developed a model for the pricing of professional services (The 5 Ps of Pricing) which has led to his teaching this topic throughout Europe and the USA. This has included delivering his paper at the Professional Pricing Society Annual Conference. He negotiated the terms of Eversheds’ groundbreaking deal with Tyco, under which Eversheds replaced 282 previous law firms as their sole adviser throughout EMEA under an innovative fixed fee deal, and he served as their first Global Client Partner. The project is a Harvard Law School case study. Professor Doolan was the winner of a “Financial Times Innovation Award” for his project to proactively rework fee deals with clients after the recession, to create aligned solutions that would benefit both the client and the firm. He was also given the “Law Society’s Award for Innovation in Client Service” for collaborative working across a group of clients. For several years, Professor Doolan has been on the faculty of IE Business School in Madrid where he teaches in the Lawyers Management Program. He also teaches Business Networking in the Masters Program at the London School of Economics and is on faculty of the University of Miami Law Without Walls Program teaching business skills to young lawyers. |
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Ashish Nanda is the Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He teaches “Leadership in Law Firms” and “Professional Services: Advanced Topics” in the J.D. program, is faculty director of Executive Education, and is research director at the Program on the Legal Profession. Before joining Harvard Law School, Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years, where he continues to teach executive education courses.
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. At HLS he teaches courses in negotiations and corporate law. At HBS, he teaches in several executive education programs, such as Strategic Negotiations, Changing the Game, and Making Corporate Boards More Effective. He is the faculty chair for the JD/MBA program at Harvard University and the Vice Chair for Research at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty he spent three years at McKinsey & Company in their New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. offices.
George Triantis is a Professor of Law at Stanford University and an affiliated faculty of the Stanford’s Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance. Prior to joining the Stanford Law faculty in 2011, he was the Eli Goldston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and formerly held the chairs of Seymour Logan Professor at the University of Chicago and Perre Bowen Professor at the University of Virginia.
David Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also the Faculty Director of the School’s Program on the Legal Profession and Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry, as well as, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Faculty Associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Michele DeStefano is the founder and co-creator of LawWithoutWalls and an Associate Professor of Law at Miami Law. She is an expert in entrepreneurship in the law. Before joining the Miami Law faculty, she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where she was previously the Associate Research Director of the Program on the Legal Profession. Her primary area of scholarly interest is in the growing intersection between law and business, how this intersection is reshaping the role of both inside and outside counsel, and the consequences of these developments for clients, the profession, and the public. Employing a mix of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Professor DeStefano’s research investigates the impact changes in the law and business marketplace (like litigation funding, social media, and public relations) will have on the legal profession and its potential for innovation. Currently, she is conducting interviews of general counsels and chief compliance officers of large, publicly traded corporations to analyze and assess the changing role of compliance.
Kevin Doolan is a partner in Eversheds, the international law firm, and is a member of their Senior Management Team. In his role as Head of Client Relations, he is responsible for the creation of new client relationships with multinational clients and for training lawyers in business development skills in Eversheds’ offices in 28 countries across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.