According to Harvard Business School professor, Noam Wasserman, 65% of startups fail as a direct result of cofounder conflict. That's nearly 2/3 of all startups! Is your business exposed to failure due to co-founder/partner conflict? Are you currently struggling to make a business partnership work? Are you thinking about joining up with a couple cofounders to launch a startup, but concerned about how to choose the right cofounders for you? Whether...

La justice se heurte à un terrible constat : elle ne répond pas aux attentes des citoyens du XXIe siècle. Dans notre vie quotidienne, nous sommes devenus habitués à bénéficier d'un service en ligne, de bonne qualité, rapide et abordable financièrement. La justice, c'est tout le contraire. Elle évolue dans un monde de papier, elle est lente, elle est coûteuse et la qualité des jugements n'est pas toujours au rendez-vous. Ce décalage,...

El encuentro de Festivales Iberoamericanos de Artes Escénicas (EFíbero) nació como un proyecto especial en el seno del Programa Iberescena, único espacio de cooperación intergubernamental destinado al desarrollo del teatro, la danza y el circo en la región cultural iberoamericana. Desde su creación en 2006 este programa ha sido un espacio de enorme potencial para darle un impulso destacado al sector, como lo han sido también los organismos...

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or series of speech acts. Our Word Is Our Bond offers a nuanced approach to language and its interaction and relations with modern law. Marianne Constable argues that, as language, modern law makes claims and hears claims of justice and injustice, which can...

Augusto B. Leguía gobernó el Perú durante quince años, lo que lo ha convertido en el presidente que más tiempo ha estado en el poder. Durante el Oncenio (1919-1939), emprendió el proyecto de modernizar el país a través de un modelo autoritario que transgredió sistemática y calculadamente al orden constitucional. En Ley y justicia en el Oncenio de Leguía (Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2015), Carlos Ramos Núñez estudia el papel que cumplió el...

Ineffective branding and public relations have the potential to sink or sabotage any small business or mission-driven organization, but such organizations often think they simply can't afford PR. Jennifer R. Farmer shows that even cash-strapped organizations can build a robust PR apparatus on a shoestring budget-they just need to be credible, creative, responsive, and relentless (CCRR). Farmer's CCRR framework leverages tools everyone has access to,...

This Handbook has three objectives: 1) to serve as a primer for explaining the complex issues around the use of electromagnetic spectrum; 2) to analyze, from both an economic and a legal perspective, the regulatory processes being considered or underway to reallocate or change the use of spectrum bands; and 3) to be a reference source for industry professionals. Part I of the Handbook provides an overview of the spectrum and the regulatory process....

When disaster strikes, will you be prepared for the backlash?On September 13, 2018, a series of natural gas explosions on a Columbia Gas of Massachusetts (CMA) pipeline system devastated the Merrimack Valley, just north of Boston, Massachusetts. Twenty-one people were injured, and one person was killed. Thousands of residents in the towns of Andover and North Andover as well as the city of Lawrence were left without heat or hot water for months for...

The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the late-1960s and early-70s, using the actual sights, sounds and stories of those who connected through the station, exploding music and countercultural scenes, militant anti-war and civil rights protests and emerging women's and LGBTQ-liberation movements.

Le règlement européen 2016/679 du 27 avril 2016 sur la protection des données (RGPD - GDPR) qui entrera en application le 25 mai 2018, introduit l'obligation dans certains cas de désigner un « Data Protection Officer » (DPO) ou délégué à la protection des données, pilote de la conformité de l'entreprise aux exigences du règlement européen. Si les organismes qui sont assujettis à cette obligation, et particulièrement les grands groupes,...