Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

“I’m thinking we keep it simple and call it the facebook.” –Mark Zuckerberg, as quoted in Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires, Chapter 11. When Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg registered the Internet domain name for “thefacebook” and began building his new social network … Continue reading →

According to this report by Jacob Kastrenakes in The Verge, Facebook is finally about to roll out some kind of Dislike Button … It’s about time; after all, YouTube has had a “thumbs down” or dislike option for years. Paradoxically, … Continue reading →

Last week, the Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico–established in 1840 and one of the oldest bar associations in continuous existence in the Americas (for historical perspective, Boston’s bar association was founded in 1802; New York City’s not until in … Continue reading →

Thus far, we have focused on Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg and his creation of “Facemash” in the fall of 2003, a website which was arguably illegal and which we discussed at length in Lesson 1. It’s now time to introduce Harvard … Continue reading →

According to this chart prepared by Ian T. Sommers (via Dadaviz), the overall “fling to serious relationship” ratio on the TV show “Friends” is about 4 : 3. Do these data reveal any other intriguing patterns?

Credit: Leon Markovitz (via Dadaviz).

This semester, we are using the founding of Facebook as an in-depth case study to explore various aspects of business law and ethics. In Lesson 1, for example, we discussed the legal and moral dimensions of “Facemash,” a short-lived website … Continue reading →