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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
of a key employee who has other offers of employment and is negotiating a stay-put bonus. The rights and interests of the surety company that provided the construction bond are also interwoven. The protagonist is the CEO of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
increase the use of reusable bags. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-065_a44e93a2-3a28-4768-ac18-6e0925699d3f.pdf Stepping Stone, Stopping Point, or Slippery Slope? Negotiating the Next Iran Deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2021
- Case
Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Shikhar Ghosh and Christian Godwin
In 2016, Fiona Mungai became Endeavor Kenya’s first managing director. In this role, she helped the organization build its inaugural board and select its first Endeavor entrepreneur, a fintech company called Cellulant. Throughout this process, Mungai observed the power... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Negotiation; Economy; Markets; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Relationships; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Shipping Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya
Applegate, Lynda M., Shikhar Ghosh, and Christian Godwin. "Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." Harvard Business School Case 821-038, May 2021.
- February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Financing Matillion's Scaleup (A)
By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli and Ramana Nanda
In 2019, Matthew Scullion, founder and CEO of U.K. startup Matillion, faced a decision about which term sheet to accept for the lead investor in his company’s $35 million Series C financing round. Would the connections and opportunities offered by Silicon Valley-based... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Ownership; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Information Technology Industry; United Kingdom
Kluender, Raymond, Emanuele Colonnelli, and Ramana Nanda. "Financing Matillion's Scaleup (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-140, February 2024. (Revised March 2024.)
- March 2009
- Case
Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)
By: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
A venture capitalist must decide whether to invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, Toby E. Stuart, and James Weber. "Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)." Harvard Business School Case 809-062, March 2009.
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
public launch of their product. The company has made great progress in negotiating access to tickets, designing its interface, and building a proprietary architecture. For consumers, ScoreBig offered the opportunity to buy tickets at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612084-PDF-ENG Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown Noam Wasserman and Deepak MalhotraHarvard Business School HBSP Online Case Product 812-701 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
threatening to jump to another company—a card that few founders are willing to play at the negotiation table, says Wasserman. Wasserman's paper on the subject "Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New... View Details
- September 1993 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Environment and International Trade
During the 1990s, environmental activists became interested in trade issues for the first time. Whereas GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, had previously been the province of trade specialists, a new poster popular among environmentalists depicted the... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Policy; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Globalization; International Relations; Conflict of Interests
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Environment and International Trade." Harvard Business School Case 794-018, September 1993. (Revised October 1994.)
- June 2006
- Exercise
Matthew A. Hunter
By: John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
Matthew Hunter, CEO of a second-generation family business, must manage the performance of a key manager in his company. Looks at the impact of family relationships on performance management. View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management; Negotiation; Family Business; Performance; Managerial Roles
Davis, John A., and Deepak Malhotra. "Matthew A. Hunter." Harvard Business School Exercise 806-203, June 2006.
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
in an economy like this, such as car dealerships, for instance, which have closed across the country. And, of course, customers are likely to negotiate for better terms. Q: What are you working on now? A: I'm writing a history of the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
licensed software, including games. Discusses Warner Bros.' online distribution strategy as well as the negotiations between BitTorrent and the Movie Picture Association of America and Warner Bros. that ultimately led to Warner Bros.'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
numbers, a way of mobilizing support and negotiating from a position of greater influence. [ ] Few organizations decide issues by vote, but every senior leader understands the risks of acting in opposition to many voices speaking in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21
practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may deviate from rationality. The 1990s brought a renewed interest in social factors, as work on social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
service organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-110.pdf Communicating Frames in Negotiations Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Markus Nöths Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Australian headquarters. The outcome of these efforts was the inception of a unique corporate-community negotiation process known as the Tintaya Dialogue Table. In December 2004, after three years of negotiation, BHP Billiton and the five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
flow to reforming countries as a consequence of reforms and may give policy makers working at agencies like the U.S. Trade Representative's Office some helpful facts to bring to the negotiating table. Multinational managers are very... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)
Austin, James E. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 590-061, April 1990. (Revised November 1992.)
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Lynch. Negotiations for the acquisition had begun a few months earlier, during the disastrous week in September in which Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. Initially both Merrill and BofA viewed their agreement favorably, but in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace