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November 1998 (Revised April 1999)
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Wireless Telecom Negotiation

By: Jay O. Light

A venture capital/private equity fund is preparing to negotiate with the two parties in a prospective PCS joint venture: the entrepreneur and AT&T Wireless. The negotiation will decide how equity and control are shared in the venture. View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance Controls; Negotiation Deal; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry

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June 1982 (Revised May 1983)
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Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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August 1993 (Revised October 1993)
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Dimensional Fund Advisors: 1993

By: Jay O. Light

A small California-based money manager is now offering specialty products for institutional investors based upon recent financial research findings. View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Investment; Financial Services Industry; California

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June 2005 (Revised November 2005)
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The Harrison and HIA

By: Jay O. Light

A large East Coast insurance company is thinking of selling its investment management subsidiary. Several Eurobanks are thinking of acquiring this subsidiary. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Investment; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation; Valuation; Insurance Industry

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November 1976 (Revised February 1977)
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.--1976

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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October 1992
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Vanguard Group, Inc. (B)

By: Jay O. Light

A large mutual fund complex decides on its future product line. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategic Planning; Financial Services Industry

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February 1977
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Available Finance Corp.

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Credit; Financial Services Industry

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July 2003 (Revised June 2010)
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FrontPoint Partners

By: Jay O. Light

A hedge fund platform, a new and unique kind of asset management firm, contemplates various client markets for its services. View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment; Demand and Consumers; Digital Platforms; Service Delivery; Financial Services Industry

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September 1992 (Revised September 1993)
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Cleveland-Cliffs, Inc.

By: Jay O. Light

A New York-based money manager owns a sizable percentage of the common shares of Cleveland-Cliffs, a U.S. iron ore producer. The money manager would prefer that Cliffs pay out or otherwise return $100 million of "excess cash" to the shareholders. The management resists... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Mining; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry

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Science out into the open - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library Introduction The Exhibition The Request The Response... View Details

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

June 2001
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Infinata: The Quest for Human Resource Venture Capital

By: Jay O. Light and Anthony Massaro

A potential start-up in the Web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is considering a deal with a software developer. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

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01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited

surprising that a firm’s country of origin can shed so much light on global expansion,” commented Lal. Exactly how globally standardized should a corporation strive to be? HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, who said that Levitt’s 1983 essay... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 1994
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Gartmore plc

By: Jay O. Light and Jon Headley

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

August 1993
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ARCO Investment Management Company

By: Jay O. Light and James O. Sailer

Keywords: Investment; Management; Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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January 2002 (Revised March 2002)
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Virtualis Systems (Condensed)

By: Michael J. Roberts and Jay O. Light

Focuses on a graduating HBS MBA who has been working part-time with a Web-hosting firm in California. Discusses the question of which of several "business models" make the most sense for the company to pursue. View Details