Faculty Director
Case Development Initiative
Harvard Law School
10 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: + 1 (617) 495-6506
Fax: + 1 (617) 496-4255
E-mail: ananda@law.harvard.edu
Professor Nanda is the faculty chair of Leadership in Law Firms and Leadership in Corporate Counsel, research director, Center on Lawyers and the Professional Services Industry, and Robert Baucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. Before joining the law school, Nanda was a Harvard Business School faculty member for 13 years. He taught "Professional Services" in the MBA program and the HBS executive education program “Leading Professional Service Firms.” A recipient the Henry B. Arthur Fellowship and the Center in Ethics and the Professions Fellowship, he has published several case studies and Harvard Business Review articles and is a co-author (with Tom DeLong) of Professional Services: Cases & Text.
Professor Nanda has advised law, accounting, investment banking, management consulting, advertising, and executive search firms as well as diversified, international corporations. His law clients include global law firms, AmLaw 20 law firms, Magic Circle firms, focused firms, regional firms, international law firms outside the U.S. and U.K., and corporate counsel offices of global financial and pharmaceutical organizations. His work with these organizations has spanned strategic planning, review of specific organizational practices and systems, leadership programs, and personal coaching. Before coming to Harvard, he was an executive with the Tata group of companies in India.
John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
Research Director, Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
Griswold Hall #400
1525 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: + 1 (617) 496-4420
Fax: + 1 (617) 496-5156
E-mail: jcoates@law.harvard.edu
John Coates, IV is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and Research Director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He joined the faculty in 1997 after private practice at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he was a partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law, and the regulation of financial institutions. Before coming to HLS, he taught on the adjunct faculties of New York University School of Law and Boston University School of Law. He was promoted to Professor in 2001, and was named the John F. Cogan Jr. Professor of Law and Economics in 2006.
His current research at Harvard includes empirical studies of the purchasing of legal services by S&P 500 companies, the causes and consequences of the completion or failure of M&A transactions, mutual funds and the effects of their regulation, and the causes and consequences of CEO and CLO turnover. He teaches courses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Institutions Regulation, Contracts, Corporations, and the History of Capitalist Institutions. Professor Coates is a principal researcher on the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, a quantitative and qualitative examination of how corporations purchase legal services. He also instructs at the Program’s Executive Education course.
Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business
Harvard Law School
Griswold Hall #402
1525 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: + 1 (617) 495-9784
Fax: + 1 (617) 496-5156
E-mail: subraman@law.harvard.edu
Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at Harvard Law School and the H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at Harvard Business School. He is the only person in the history of Harvard University to hold tenured appointments at both HLS and HBS. 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, Managing Negotiators and the Deal Process, 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.
Dechert Fellow
Case Development Initiative
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: + 1 (617) 495-5187
Fax: + 1 (617) 496-8489
Nicholas Haas graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest distinction from the University of Michigan, where he majored in political science and minored in creative writing. His senior political theory thesis on Students for a Democratic Society earned him high honors from the political science department. Before coming to Harvard Law, Nick worked in social demographic analysis, first at the Boston Redevelopment Authority as an intern and later at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At Michigan, Nick was also a William J. Branstrom Prize recipient and a James B. Angell Scholar.
Program Coordinator
Case Development Initiative
Harvard Law School
Tel: + 1 (617) 495-3356
Fax: + 1 (617) 496-8489
E-mail: rgibson@law.harvard.edu
Rachel Gibson is a program coordinator at the Program on the Legal Profession. She handles the Linklaters India Internship Program and assists with the Student Research Grants. Ms. Gibson is also the program coordinator for the Harvard Law School Case Development Initiative.
Rachel graduated with a B.A. in English from Wellesley College in 2010. Before joining the PLP, she worked as a training coordinator at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, and prior to that was an interview coordinator in the admissions office at Harvard Medical School. She currently volunteers at a homeless shelter with the Horizons for Homeless Children program.
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