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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course focuses on contracts and... View Details
- March 2009
- Background Note
Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars
As equity consideration has become more popular in acquisitions, so has the use of the "pricing-protection" mechanisms, such as floors, caps, and collars. These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well.... View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars." Harvard Business School Background Note 209-138, March 2009.
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
projects, for example, don’t generate enough water bill revenue to pay for themselves. But, rather than go without water for lack of current funds or skills, municipalities like Algiers, Algeria, have contracted for water with GE on an... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
relation between budgeting type and budgetary misreporting. Results also indicate asymmetry in the effects of psychological contract breach versus repair. Effects of breach on budgetary misreporting persist... View Details
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
with the appropriate financial and human resources, and scaling. The course will explore which areas of the life sciences are ripe for innovation and entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related service... View Details
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Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson
some precision to the discussion of culture in organizational change. She'll use the concept of relational contracts to help readers see the "fuzzy" side of management with clarity. Rebecca: My work on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
When most MBA students attend HBS, there is a general feeling that the contract they sign is to spend 18 months getting world-class exposure to cases and principles of business and management and then leave with a license to practice... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
signed may sour. Risk Factors The most common causes of social contract problems are lack of awareness and benign neglect. The parties involved inevitably form expectations about how the deal will be carried out, whether they discuss them... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management Under Short-Term Take-or-Pay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2010
- Supplement
Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Details and evaluates results in Esquel's 2002 initiative to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Sebenius, James K., and Jason Cheng Qian. "Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-032, November 2010.
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
financier or a source of technology—and that these contracts can be enforced. A second important—though very challenging—role for government is to intervene directly in the entrepreneurial process. But these programs must be executed... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
the digital revolution. With a smartphone in every pocket and the equivalent of what you’d spend on a CD, consumers can buy a month of access to a wide world of streaming options. And while the global economy contracted by 6 percent in... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
U.K. government borrowed from the SBA’s contracting efforts, setting an even higher small business contracting goal than ours here in the United States (25 percent versus our 23 percent) and achieving it in... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
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Patrick Ferguson
sports analytics consulting group, where he helped professional sports teams identify undervalued players. His next position—as an accounting research assistant at his alma mater—brought these threads together. The senior faculty members Patrick worked alongside... View Details
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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
information, we may rely on the legal bases of “performance of contract” in order to fulfill our contract with you to provide Services and on “compliance with legal obligation” in order to comply with tax laws in the maintenance of... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Harris Fahnestock document a financial career that spanned more than half a century. The collection contains correspondence and documents relating to Fahnestock’s partnership in Jay Cooke & Co. from 1862 to 1873, including reports to... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
affected how people behave afterward." The study is related to previous experimental research in which Cuddy and colleagues prove the positive effects of adopting expansive body postures - hands on hips, feet on desk, and the like.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
of continued collaboration. We theoretically refine and empirically extend prior research by (a) distinguishing between control and coordination functions of contracts, (b) separating goodwill-based and competence-based trust, and (c) evaluating the effects of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
returns are a linear combination of two accounting fundamentals: book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne