Publications

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

ambition, and become better job and wage negotiators while choosing a partner who can help share the load of a career. The work that Amy Cuddy has, as of this date, shared with more than 28 million viewers on TEDTalks provides nuts and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

research/manufacturing and more). The course will feature workshops with practitioners and domain experts providing guidance and exploring how to successfully navigate critical tasks when launching a life sciences venture. These tasks include View Details

April 2016 (Revised January 2018)
Supplement

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

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade

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

March 2016 (Revised October 2018)
Case

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

01 Mar 2008
News

Secrets Behind a VC Success Story

confronting challenges in the Third World. Meet Richard America (MBA ’63), who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development and economic justice. Web Extra “A National System of Income Supplementation” Sarah Talley’s Key View Details

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217058 Harvard Business School Case 918-003 Henry Kissinger: Negotiating Black Majority Rule in Rhodesia (A) In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

brands play in customers’ lives and differentiate between the different types of relationships consumers form with brands, the rules that govern those relationships, and how to negotiate them over time to create mutual value. Highlights... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Interpreting the Gipper

U.S.-Soviet competition forced the Soviet Politburo to install a reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, rather than a hard-liner, Beschloss asserted. Then that same escalation caused Gorbachev to feel pressure “to make arms deals and improve View Details

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

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

negotiate and compromise, Lees says. “If you are a legislator, you are thinking no one across the aisle or in my own tribe will support compromise, but that’s in fact wrong. Both sides might be okay with compromise, but no one’s willing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

want as a resource to negotiate better deals and to clean up their personal marketing environment. Empowerment is sometimes captured in the slogan "get what you want, when you want it, where you want it, on your own terms."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

January 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Technical Note

The Market Power of Platform-Mediated Networks

By: Benjamin Edelman

This note provides criteria to evaluate the power of a platform-mediated network. For a company considering building such a network or an investor considering funding such an effort, this analysis reveals the scope and desirability of the opportunity. Meanwhile, for a... View Details

Keywords: Intermediaries; Platforms; Platform Strategy; Business Model; Agreements and Arrangements; Distribution Channels; Networks; Technology Platform; Telecommunications Industry; Travel Industry; Financial Services Industry

October 2003 (Revised October 2004)
Case

AT&T Canada (A)

By: Andre F. Perold and Kwame C. Van Leeuwen

AT&T Canada (ATTC) is a merger arbitrage situation where AT&T Corp. has a contractual commitment to purchase the shares of ATTC at an escalating formula price. However, ATTC's business is performing poorly, and its bonds are trading at significant discounts to par.... View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Telecommunications Industry; Canada