Book Description
This book contains 17 chapters that follow the progression of a start-up business and anticipate its legal concerns through the stages of growth up to an initial public offering. The new edition integrates e-commerce and international issues where appropriate. This text is appropriate at both the undergraduate and graduate level for those courses that cover legal issues and entrepreneurs. Depending on the course, it could be used as either a core text or a supplement.


Book Info
An in-depth treatment of the vagaries of business law as it relates to the Entrepreneur, contains many excellent examples of real-world problems and solutions. Paper. DLC: Business law - U.S.


About the Author
Constance E. Bagley is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, she taught for more than ten years at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where she received Honorable Mention (first runner-up) for the Distinguished Teaching Award and was GSB Trust Faculty Fellow for 1997-1998. Before teaching at Stanford, she was a corporate securities partner at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a 250-lawyer firm based in San Francisco. Professor Bagley is the author of Managers and the Legal Environment: Strategies for the 21st Century (West, 2002). She is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, a staff editor of the American Business Law Journal, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Bureau of National Affairs Corporate Practice Series. Professor Bagley received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Harvard law School and was invited to join the Harvard Law Review. She received her A.B., with Honors and Distinction, from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She is a member of the State Bar of California and the State bar of New York.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This book contains 17 chapters that follow the progression of a start-up business and anticipate its legal concerns through the stages of growth up to an initial public offering. The new edition integrates e-commerce and international issues where appropriate. This text is appropriate at both the undergraduate and graduate level for those courses that cover legal issues and entrepreneurs. Depending on the course, it could be used as either a core text or a supplement.

SYNOPSIS

Covering the main legal aspects of starting a business in the United States, Bagley (business administration, Harvard Business School) and Dauchy (managing partner, Cooley Godward LLP) proceed from inception to sale or initial public offering. Each chapter examines legal constraints and opportunities, offering advice on business strategy. Topics include incorporation, ownership structure, board formation, contracts and leases, e-commerce, human resources, operational liabilities and insurance, creditors' rights, venture capital, intellectual property and cyberlaw, and global operation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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