Publications

2000
Other Unpublished Work

Dealmaking Essentials: Creating and Claiming Value for the Long Term

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Value Creation

June 2001 (Revised September 2010)
Exercise

Deal-crafting Toolkit

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Illustrates the potential sources of value creation as well as practical barriers to its achievement. Students analyze five brief scenarios that would yield efficient trades over valuation, discount rates, expectations, and risk tolerance, but that might be thwarted by... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Process; Behavior; Valuation; Value Creation

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January 1992
Teaching Note

MRC, Inc. (A) TN

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-274-118). View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Acquisition; Organizations; Perspective; Negotiation Deal; Strategy

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

Negotiation is a breeze if you're selling a unique product or service that others desperately need: Just sit back and let the bidding begin. Likewise, if you're a buyer in a buyer's market, getting a bargain is a snap. But what happens... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

March 2009
Teaching Note

Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for [809051]. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Information Technology; Competition; Negotiation Deal; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

May 1999
Teaching Note

Car Wash Partners, Inc. TN

By: Paul A. Gompers

Teaching Note for (9-299-034). View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Investment; Strategy; Negotiation Deal; Venture Capital; Service Industry

June 1996 (Revised July 2004)
Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (C)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarayu Srinivasan

Discusses the resolution of the canceled power project in Maharashtra. The contract between the American gas giant and Indian state government is renegotiated. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Infrastructure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Energy Industry; United States

September 2003 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Analyst Conflicts (A): Resolved?

By: Ashish Nanda

This case tracks the events leading to the April 2003 industry settlement on equity research in financial services companies. View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Law; Negotiation Deal; Financial Services Industry

December 2006 (Revised November 2008)
Case

The New York Jets--A West Side Story

In 2005, Jay Cross, New York Jets president, must decide how to proceed with finding a new home for the football team he heads after New York's Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Process; Partners and Partnerships; Urban Development; Sports; Real Estate Industry; Sports Industry

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

Muhammad Ali than a typical diplomat. "He's yakking and talking. He's jiving," marveled a colleague. Though he added: "The first time you see it, you think it's just bull." In fact, it was Holbrooke's way of pumping himself up and energizing the View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler

May 2004
Teaching Note

Seagate Technology Buyout (TN)

By: Stuart C. Gilson

Teaching Note to (9-201-063). View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Participants; Equity; Value; Volatility; Assets; Capital; Computer Industry

1988
Book

Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work

By: Robert G. Eccles and Dwight B. Crane

Keywords: Negotiation Deal; Investment Banking

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September 2011 (Revised August 2012)
Background Note

The Venture Capital Problem Set

By: William Sahlman, Evan W. Richardson and James McQuade

This note consists of three valuation/analysis exercises often found in venture capital financing deals. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

environments where we must negotiate with others, bid against others, make deals through agents, and so on. This view is quite different from the standard consumer decision paradigm that looks at how the... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

consequences of a range of alternative policies. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-045_4e9f7d2d-24c3-4d8c-8843-1eb9016bc016.pdf December 2014 Negotiations in Times of Conflict Better View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2007
Case

New York Magazine

By: Guhan Subramanian and David Chen

Describes the events surrounding the sale of New York Magazine to Bruce Wasserstein in 2003. Wasserstein's last-second cash bid of $55 million surprised other potential buyers and allowed him to win ownership of the magazine. View Details

Keywords: Journals and Magazines; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

September 1992 (Revised July 1993)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (D)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Melinda Conrad and Charles S. Osborn

Provides a thorough overview of the company's 1990 and 1991 reorganizations and the resulting demand for information technology in lower levels of the organization. Closes with a discussion of Frito-Lay's most recent information technology projects, Explorer and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Negotiation Deal; Problems and Challenges; Organizational Design; Projects; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

February 2002
Background Note

States vs. Microsoft, The

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris

Although the federal Justice Department managed to settle its massive antitrust litigation against Microsoft in 2001, the state suit against the company continued. State attorney generals, perhaps emboldened by their recent victory over the Big Five tobacco companies,... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Public Ownership; Private Ownership; Negotiation Deal; Goals and Objectives; Lawsuits and Litigation; Decision Making; Information Industry; Legal Services Industry