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15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

Hexion/Apollo wanted out. Would the material adverse change (MAC) clause in the merger agreement permit Hexion/Apollo to simply walk away? Even if the MAE clause were not applicable, could Hexion/Apollo walk away by paying the reverse... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

triggered PeopleSoft's poison pill, threatening this maneuver would have given Oracle bargaining power that it could have used to pay a lower price in its negotiated acquisition. The Commentary closes with implications of this analysis... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

businesses survive the economic impact of COVID-19, Rahim Noormohamed (HBS 2021) launched GIFTforward, a social tech venture to help small businesses by selling gift cards. “The problem facing restaurants and other small businesses is a cash problem. They need cash... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719204 Payout Policy By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin C. Schmalz Abstract—We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

advertising, branding, and society today. Acknowledgment of Land and People Harvard University is located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge. We View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

interest that Minto is researching is the matter of club financing. Clubs currently rely mainly on members' dues and fundraising events to pay for their operations. "The career, social, and recreational services, information, and... View Details

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

"Me-To-You Mindset" initiative that encourages partners to look at the world through their clients' eyes. At the end of the case Hever is reflecting on a proposal he submitted for providing CDC services to one of the largest UK companies. The general counsel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

of the organizations that pay for the programs, and the ways in which business schools and other providers deliver (or not) on the promises they make regarding skill development and the continued value of learning to the organization.... View Details

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usually served by businesses who synchronize value creation for customers with profits for shareholders. That is not the case for customers who are in the bottom quarter of the socio-economic pyramid who cannot afford to pay for services... View Details

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

accountability are not new. Leaders of organizations, be they nonprofit, business, or government, face a constant stream of demands from various constituents demanding accountable behavior. But what does it mean to be accountable? By and large, nonprofit leaders tend... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop... View Details

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