Publications

October 1996
Article

The Use of Covenants: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Partnership Agreements

By: Paul A. Gompers and J. Lerner

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Theory; Agreements and Arrangements

winter 1976
Article

Conflict Avoidance in Concession Agreements

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and David N. Smith

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Agreements and Arrangements

12 Mar 2018
News

Trump has already given Kim Jong Un 'everything he wants'

May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

H-Soft Mumbai

By: Ramana Nanda

Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai reflected on his meeting as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital Term Sheet; India; Business Startups; Investment; Venture Capital; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Decision Making

April 2010
Article

From Strategy to Business Models and onto Tactics

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart

The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Framework; Negotiation Tactics; Competition

June 2020
Teaching Plan

Chief

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen

Teaching Plan serves as a supplement to the case for “Chief: Role for Carolyn Childers” (920-019), “Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan” (920-020), and “Scaling at Chief” (920-021). 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

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

advocated for some kind of lower-key negotiated settlement. Ahmed Bougnine favored firing with cause, adding that “the damage (from his admitted misbehavior) could be much deeper on the invisible structure. It needs to be addressed with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

Commission, in contrast, still approaches its accession negotiations just as it always has: Brussels negotiators insist, correctly, that the EU's rules unambiguously forbid all capital controls, and so... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front 'Negotiation Campaign' By: Green, Laurence A., and James K. Sebenius Abstract—Complex, multiparty negotiations are often analyzed as principals negotiating through agents, as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

States, the approaches are reasonable. The task is to translate a theoretically reasonable approach into a workable policy. Implementing any of these approaches will require negotiations between the federal and the local governments, to... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

and values of negotiation beyond formal legal requirements. They address issues such as what we owe our counterparts in the way of candor or disclosure, to what extent we should use financial or legal pressure to force settlement, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

retailers might be one of the factors behind the recent TFP slowdown experienced by the industry in the U.K. Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 25,... 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

March 2011
Teaching Note

First Boston's Union Carbide Deal: Acquiring a New Client (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Penny Rossano

Teaching Note for 897201. View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Offer; Investment Banking; Relationships; Revenue; Capital Structure; Chemical Industry

February 2006 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Brazos Partners and Cheddar's Inc.

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

Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real estate subsidiary that would own the... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Price; Partners and Partnerships; Management; Investment; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Stocks

August 2007
Case

New York Magazine

By: Guhan Subramanian and David Chen

Describes the events surrounding the sale of New York Magazine to Bruce Wasserstein in 2003. Wasserstein's last-second cash bid of $55 million surprised other potential buyers and allowed him to win ownership of the magazine. View Details

Keywords: Journals and Magazines; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

October 1987 (Revised November 1991)
Case

Fiat--1986

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick

Describes Fiat's 1986 Euro-equity offering of $2.1 billion of stock. The offering proved to be highly problematic, particularly for the lead manager, Deutsche Bank, and raises questions about the future of the Euro-equity market. Students are provided opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: Equity; Stocks; Negotiation Deal; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Auto Industry