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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
in a Chaotic World By: Wheeler, Michael Abstract—A member of the world-renowned Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School introduces the powerful next-generation approach to negotiation. For many years, two approaches to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
differences in leadership across task, culture, and identity. We don't offer a simple answer. Like any complex phenomena, scholars are in the earliest stages of beginning to understand the complexities of leadership. "What we think... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
example, offering large financial incentives to the winners of intergroup contests would predictably pull these relationships into cutthroat competition. In addition, in an effort to keep the competition from becoming cutthroat or the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
had wanted to achieve at Apple from its founding in 1976 to his firing in 1985. He still believed that the future was all about the computer. He agreed to act as an advisor to Amelio, promising to “help Gil in any way he asks me to,” illustrating that when Steve View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- February 2015
- Supplement
Loki Capital Management
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
Fuller, Joseph B., and Christopher Payton. "Loki Capital Management." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 315-099, February 2015.
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the transactions (including prices) are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
posted a 54 percent jump in sales and a 35 percent gain in second-quarter earnings. A new HBS case study on Embraer, presented in Buenos Aires (in a modified version of how such a case might be taught in a standard classroom setting), View Details
- March 2025
- Case
Metaphysic AI: Rethinking the Value of Human Expertise
By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In early 2025, Thomas Graham, CEO of Metaphysic, a leading AI generative video company confronted fundamental questions about who should control digital identity in a world where AI could perfectly recreate human likeness. Founded in 2021, Metaphysic first rose to fame... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Ethics; AI and Machine Learning; Intellectual Property; Rights; Negotiation; Value; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry
Cullen, Zoë B., Shikhar Ghosh, and Shweta Bagai. "Metaphysic AI: Rethinking the Value of Human Expertise." Harvard Business School Case 825-146, March 2025.
- May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Exercise
Endeca Negotiation, The: Steve Papa
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Students play the role of Steve Papa, the CEO and founder of a venture-backed enterprise software company. In the challenging financing climate of the fall of 2001, he knows that two different groups are about to submit term sheets for his company's C-round. He is... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Process; Negotiation Offer; Management Teams; Venture Capital; Valuation; Software; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Endeca Negotiation, The: Steve Papa." Harvard Business School Exercise 802-212, May 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
deeper, and important negotiation lessons emerge. First, you can succeed without explicitly swapping favors. After all, Rovell had nothing of substance to offer successful sports figures. But by being... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
Black identity. All emails were identical except sometimes, Demarcus specifically referenced his identity (“As a Black man ”), while other times he did not. The researchers found that students were up to 80 percent more likely to offer to... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
intensity,” followed by patent filings that didn’t cite papers but referenced another patent that did. The least science-based products offered no connections to past research in their filings. "The added uncertainties and costs of tough... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- February 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Riverview Technologies was a Stockholm, Sweden-based company that had developed software hedge funds. After spending more than a year in an organized sale process, the winning bidder had become increasingly difficult to work with and the closing had been substantially... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Process; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 211-083, February 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- September 2024
- Case
Eat App: Building and Monetizing an End-to-End Dining Experience Solution
By: Elie Ofek and Ahmed Dahawy
Founded in 2015 in Bahrain, Eat App was an up-and-coming player in the global restaurant management software business. In early 2024, having shifted to a product-led growth strategy, the company’s co-founders faced a host of decisions that could greatly impact their... View Details
Keywords: Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Negotiation Deal; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Profit; Revenue; Applications and Software; Product; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry; Bahrain; United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi; Dubai
Ofek, Elie, and Ahmed Dahawy. "Eat App: Building and Monetizing an End-to-End Dining Experience Solution." Harvard Business School Case 525-019, September 2024.
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
positively related to attitudes of openness to others. In a third study, I conducted an interpersonal dyadic negotiation experiment with business school students and found that, as predicted, these effects replicated and extended to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
encourage companies to set lower salaries, hold firm on initial offers, and prevent expensive renegotiations. By publicly setting pay parameters at the outset, employees “know when you get a job offer, it’s not a negotiable topic,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Research Summary
Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
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My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details