Publications

Educators

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

June 1998
Article

A New Takeover Defense Mechanism: Using an Equal Treatment Agreement as an Alternative to the Poison Pill

By: Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Horizontal Integration

February 1985
Teaching Note

Duncan Field (A), Teaching Note

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Teaching Note for (9-382-137). View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Negotiation; System; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

Mar 08 2018
Brochure

The Path to Leadership Starts Here

Research Summary

Overview

By: John Beshears

In his research, Professor Beshears shows how managers can influence the behavior of customers and employees by changing the decision-making environment to call attention to a decision, to use psychological framing to shape assessments of options, or to help... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Consumer Finance; Household Finance; Health Care; Organizational Economics; Decision Making; Economics; Negotiation; Behavioral Finance

June 1983
Article

Don't Bet on It: Contingent Agreements with Asymmetric Information

By: James K. Sebenius and John Geanakoplos

Keywords: Information; Agreements and Arrangements

1991
Chapter

An Economic Approach to the Study of Bargaining

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Negotiation; Economics; Mathematical Methods

February 1985 (Revised June 1986)
Supplement

Computervision-Japan (B)

Outlines the elements of a temporary sales agreement between Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Computervision Japan. View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Sales; Technology Industry; Japan

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

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

information and forces companies to be more open, will help. Still, Saeki knows he has his work cut out for him. “Nasdaq has been very successful in the United States and is now eyeing global trading,” he notes. “It’s a great strategy that will fly. But changing the... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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

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

Educators

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

October 2010
Case

CDG: Managing in China's Economic Transformation

By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Shaohui Chen and Lisa Kwan

China Data Group (CDG) is a leading business processes outsourcing company based in Beijing, China. Roc Yang, chairman of CDG, had to confront a dilemma when he discovered that one of his senior managers gave a gift to a potential client in an effort to win a large... View Details

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Negotiation Deal; Relationships; Networks; Societal Protocols; China

Educators