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  • January 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Metapath Software: September 1997

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software, a provider of software and services to wireless carriers--had two offers to describe. The first was an offer to... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Stocks; Public Ownership; Negotiation Deal; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • June 2001
  • Case

NESWC (A)

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Documents attempts to restructure a public-private partnership between the operator of a $200 million trash-to-energy cogeneration plant and a consortium of two dozen Massachusetts municipalities. Describes the process that led to a one-sided agreement, as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Energy Generation; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Process; Partners and Partnerships; Wastes and Waste Processing; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

necessary financing but only if they can prove that they have the necessary financing. Still others are trying to negotiate a "marquee" deal with large organizations that are not marching (or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

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
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

retailers might be one of the factors behind the recent TFP slowdown experienced by the industry in the U.K. Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals Author:James K. Sebenius... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

antitrust laws also don’t deal well with companies that took advantage of network effects to become huge and now are perceived as ‘too big to fail’ or to do anything about.” Does antitrust law need a high tech reset? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
  • 01 Feb 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and value of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

annoyed, and it distracts them from dealing with the patient.” The study, published in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at five types of visits: primary care visits, ER visits resulting in a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

get less. Negotiating these deals is like squeezing a balloon—if you squeeze it in one place, it pops out somewhere else. Finding an equilibrium in the midst of this kind of multiparty View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract— Women's reluctance to negotiate is often used to explain the gender wage gap, popularizing the push for women to “lean-in" and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

Whistleblower complaints against federal contractors can help government agencies drive better deals with those companies—even when the allegations turn out to be unsubstantiated, according to new research. Under the burden of a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan shows there may be prestige advantages when you stand out rather than fit in. The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk, a former View Details
  • 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
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

project negotiations, he’s had a chance to do that. In the presidency, there will probably be negotiations — with Congress, with other nations, or with agencies or with all the people a president deals with... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

debt needed to fund the transaction. Covers issues such as identifying and attracting bidders; dealing with the concerns of the managers of the selling company; negotiating issues in a definitive merger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 18, 2009
  • Article

Regulate, Baby, Regulate

The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Infrastructure; Insurance; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Credit; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; United States
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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

2008, as Lehman Brothers struggled to survive, John Thain, CEO of Merrill Lynch, realized that his bank was also on the brink of failure. Throughout the weekend of September 13-14, 2008, Thain successfully negotiated a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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