NEW BOOK WINNING LEGALLY ILLUSTRATES HOW BUSINESS LEADERS CAN USE LEGAL GUIDELINES TO ENSURE STABILITY AND GROWTH
Harvard Business School Professor Constance Bagley Provides Guidelines for Practicing Managers
BOSTON - As managers climb the corporate ladder, they often face legal issues they are ill-equipped to handle, a situation that can put their companies at risk – both legally and competitively. Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk, a new book by Harvard Business School associate professor Constance E. Bagley, shows that understanding how to manage the legal dimensions of business can help managers not just stay out of trouble, but proactively harness the power of the law to maximize corporate value.
Just published by the Harvard Business School Press, Winning Legally details how legally astute managers create competitive advantage over their rivals by combining business audacity and vision with integrity and respect for the law. “Winning legally requires leadership, persistence, and vigilance, but it is an attainable goal,” said Bagley. “By studying the game plan and heeding the play-by-play I outline in the book, managers increase their odds of fielding a winning team.”
Through many classic and contemporary examples across the business landscape, this guide completely reframes the relationship of law to business. Bagley explains how legally astute managers can:
- use the law as a strategic tool,
- convert constraints into opportunities,
- select and work effectively with legal advisers,
- spot legal issues before they become problems,
- better assess and manage legal and business risk,
- protect brand equity, and
- capture hidden value in intellectual property.
Winning Legally is available for purchase online: http://www.hbspress.org