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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
second election or, in rare cases, require the company to negotiate with the union as sole bargaining agent for the employees. Most companies will deny a union’s request to represent its employees on the basis of signed authorization... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
in-depth look at a single organization, the high-tech giant Rakuten, in the five years after its English lingua franca mandate. Her behind-the-scenes portrayal explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
developing countries—the full actors of the fight against climate change. I joined the Green Climate Fund back in 2014 to help set up the institution and to facilitate the negotiation of the Paris Agreement. “So I saw my role as... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
student summer experiences and the 2011 IXP destination list indicate that HBS students are still looking for ways to leverage their experience in finance, consulting, strategy, and negotiations — but where and how they use those skills... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
you approach it, what you take away from it. I actually honed my exiting skills, how to really negotiate good deals, good exits out of somewhat challenging investments. I completed the four exits, which people didn't think was doable in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
deals." When constructing a single pipeline, for example, it is often necessary for a company to negotiate with multiple countries, each with its own laws, cultural differences, and political sensitivities. Those complications, says HBS... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
the machinery, the expertise in North America was really difficult. The artists that didn't have major record labels negotiating on their behalf for manufacturing capacity were having to go to brokers, waiting on these long lead times,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
With renewed confidence, the president decided emancipation would remain an essential condition of any negotiations with the Confederacy. For a few days during the long, hot summer of 1864, Lincoln had considered backing away from his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
turned into "a runaway express train." "At least twice a week, after working all day, putting the kids to bed, and having dinner with my husband, I started working again at 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.," Sandford reports. "I was exhausted." Weekends, she and her husband View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
Desai, Negotiation Mastery with Professor Michael Wheeler, Becoming a Better Manager with the late professor David Garvin, and a new course, Entrepreneurship Essentials with Professor William Sahlman. Since 2014, more than 5,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
unfolded, with the plant manager himself fielding some of the queries. Boston’s unpredictable winters can also complicate travel and transport. But when a severe snowstorm brought the city to a halt last March, “students at home simply downloaded their View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
as a series of interactions between founders, partners, potential partners, investors, and others at various stages of the entrepreneurial process, from seed to exit. Many authors offer tips on how to succeed as an entrepreneur, but no one else has scrutinized the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
entrepreneur," Stevenson notes. "Success requires multifunctional skills." The Entrepreneurial Management faculty has focused on three elements that are required for individual or organizational success: careful definition of opportunities, understanding required... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
trying...there’s very little coasting.” Shepherding the Atlantic into its next phase is an all-consuming task, yet Bradley has made extra time in recent years for an additional and unexpected project—helping locate and negotiate for the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
class dressed like him. 1984-86A. Professor Ben Shapiro recollected classroom hijinks in his first-year Marketing classes for these three years, which were held at the end of the day. He negotiated with the sections that they could do... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
employee, the US Congress had not yet delivered on the entirety of its $300 million funding promise. Negotiating with officials from the Egyptian and US governments, each with their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
this activity in established institutions. At HBS, he racked the exhaust pipes on his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom View Details