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  • October 1999 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO

By: Andre F. Perold and Gunjan D. Bhow
OpenIPO is a new mechanism for pricing and distributing initial public offerings. The system, which is based on a Dutch auction, represents an attempt by the investment bank W.R. Hambrecht + Co. to change the manner in which IPOs are underwritten. The case provides a... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Debt Securities; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Price; Information; Auctions; Agreements and Arrangements; Distribution; Internet; Netherlands
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  • 04 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 4, 2016

common in negotiations and that many negotiators prefer to palter than to lie by commission. Paltering, however, may promote conflict fueled by self-serving interpretations; palterers focus on the veracity... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

the behavior leads to a negative rather than a positive outcome. We also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Entry, Exit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

asset seizure by enemy governments. Negotiation Some directly negotiated favorable business arrangements with local governments and decision makers. Perseverance Some adopted the approach of resilience,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

case concerns the negotiations of a deal by HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, to buy Visma, ASA, a Norwegian software company. Visma has received an offer from Sage Group, a strategic acquirer.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

dress for success evolves over time. Harvard Business School professor Myra Hart, an expert in high potential entrepreneurship, has offered several programs over the years to help HBS alumnae quickly regain the skills they need to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

been unintentional and offering to compromise may help smooth over settlements and avoid costly legal battles. “By understanding why people make mistakes,” says Luo, “it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership topics, such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

really exacting and precise,” Zhang says. “There’s some research by colleagues at Columbia showing that giving precise offers, in contract negotiations for instance, can lead to beneficial monetary outcomes for the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

that accounting research would benefit from a greater focus on the study of causal mechanisms (or causal pathways), increased emphasis on structural modeling of the phenomena of interest, and more in-depth descriptive research. We argue these changes are possible and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

similar companies move from segment-and-account or product-and-service-level analysis into the greater detail offered at the order level. By and large, those companies that devoted themselves to the effort were richly rewarded. The order... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53941 forthcoming Harvard International Review Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via a Remarkably Creative Negotiation By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—When Robert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

litigation, the ex post negotiation of license terms (that is, negotiations occurring after a technology's inclusion in a standard) can lead to higher royalty payments and ultimately higher prices to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

funding for their startups when responding to prevention-focused questions with promotion-focused answers. As we offer evidence regarding tactics that can be employed to diminish the gender disadvantage in funding outcomes, this study has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

Summing Up What's so unusual about the current shakeout occurring among dot.com organizations? It's business as usual, a combination of both chess and roulette (perhaps following a round of "pin the tail on the donkey") offering... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle) By: Malhotra, Deepak Abstract—Some negotiations are easy. Others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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