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01 Mar 2009
News

Alumni Books

innovation management breakdown, premature core abandonment, and talent shortfall. The book includes methods for articulating and monitoring strategic assumptions and ends with a self-test built around fifty signs of an impending growth stall. View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
News

Greek Drama

further austerity measures. “What we need the most,” he declared, “is a change in policy mix so that we can regenerate recovery, reduce the deficit, and service our debt.” Added Samaras, “I am prepared to negotiate and take the... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

October 1986 (Revised February 2008)
Case

Congoleum Corp. (Abridged)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Describes the development and terms of the largest leveraged buyout up to the date of the case. The main problem is to value the positions of the various participants: lenders, equity holders, investment bankers, and management. This is an abridged version of an... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Management; Negotiation Participants; Valuation

June 2007 (Revised November 2008)
Case

Nordic Telephone Company's Bid for TDC

Nordic Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of shareholders have accepted the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Communication Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Privatization; Telecommunications Industry; Denmark

April 2004 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Showdown on the Waterfront: The West Coast Port Dispute (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel

New technology underlies a protracted dispute between West Coast longshoremen and their employers. Severe economic consequences lead to government intervention in the dispute. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Negotiation Process; Business and Government Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Shipping Industry; Western United States

01 Mar 2014
News

Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry

"Never apologize, mister," John Wayne's character famously said in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. "It's a sign of weakness." And while previous academic research has similarly concluded that apologizing during negotiations hurts perceptions of... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Information

May 2016 (Revised August 2019)
Teaching Note

Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade

James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing loans from Deutschland Bank. While he considers the many aspects of the deal that is about to unfold, he must decide... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Distress Investing; Non-performing Loan; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Financial Services Industry; Germany; Europe

January 1992
Teaching Note

MRC, Inc. (A) TN

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-274-118). View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Acquisition; Organizations; Perspective; Negotiation Deal; Strategy

May 2008
Teaching Note

Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal (TN)

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807005]. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Information for Euro Elektrische Keramische Vorrichtungen (Euro EKV), GmbH Harvard Business School Exercise 908-033 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A)

By: Guhan Subramanian and Mike Harmon

This case (A), and its related cases (B-E), establish a setting to discuss an M&A transaction and some of the key legal contracts that are associated with it. In 2010, private equity backed food manufacturer Pierre Foods is contemplating the acquisition of a key... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation; Complexity

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

landscape and its accompanying expanding advertising options. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707458 Lou Pritchett: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart (A) Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

minorities. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/apfelbaum%20norton%20sommers.pdf Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective Authors:Gavin Clarkson and James K. Sebenius... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

director Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996), and a full agenda of class dinners and social events. HBX is expanding its online offerings: Professor Mihir Desai’s six-week Leading with Finance for business leaders debuted this fall, and Professor Michael Wheeler’s new View Details

June 2001
Case

Infinata: The Quest for Human Resource Venture Capital

By: Jay O. Light and Anthony Massaro

A potential start-up in the Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is considering a deal with a software developer. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

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April 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Teaching Note

Understanding the U.S. Dollar in 1985 & 1987, Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Agreements and Arrangements; Computer Industry

January 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Case

SuperCat Powerboats (A)

By: James L. Heskett

Ryan and David Kratz have formed a new company, under very favorable terms, with a fiberglass boat builder. But at the signing of the agreement for the new company's information, the builder's spouse suggests that the Kratz's share of ownership be reduced from 67% to... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation; Ownership Stake; Consumer Products Industry