Agreements - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2024
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Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

vehicle supply chain in the short term, despite his experiences at Tesla: “The US does not have sufficient domestic capacity to produce all the battery materials critical to EV adoption. Mineral agreements with Japan and other friendly... View Details

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policies and regulatory requirements, and to support data security measures. New Requirements for Project Space Requests Effective February 11, all necessary compliance documentation, including Institutional Review Board (IRB) documentation, Data Use View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

foreign direct investment. The other thing that surprised me was that some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. There is general agreement that the international share of total Internet traffic is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Frequently Asked Questions Who is selected for interviews? We select leaders who have built organizations of lasting value. For the most part, these are founders of businesses, though they also include numerous significant not-for-profit organizations. What is key is... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

that translates into higher relationship satisfaction." Note: Participants were asked to rate on a scale of 1-9 their agreement with statements that reflect their relationship commitment, investment, and satisfaction. Source: “Rituals and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

publishing platform, the site tended to promote those books more aggressively, and in turn, flat-fee books received more views. The message, Zhu says, is simple: “The contractual agreement changes the incentives for both the freelancers... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

you need heroic leaders in order to have meaningful, sustained change. Why Change Efforts Fail "Change is one of the few areas where experts have been in violent agreement for decades," declares David A. Garvin, Robert and Jane... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

initiatives, including loss and damage—the idea that the harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030.... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

hard on a predefined objective, can cause you to miss value that might lie in a different direction. In business, there's a saying that goes "if you don't know where you're going, any map will do." You can almost always get managers to nod in View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

#4 below, discuss or agree to take a position with or to acquire a financial interest in a faculty member’s venture at some point in the future. A student may enter into an agreement for a summer job or full-time employment with a faculty... View Details

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

accessing or using the Website or any of the Services after any changes have been made, you signify your agreement to the modified Notice and all of the changes, which will be effective immediately unless we notify you of a later... View Details

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

technology, for Linux. And in July 2009, Microsoft agreed to contribute some of its technology to Linux under a licensing agreement that allows developers outside Microsoft to modify the code. They are being very strategic, approaching it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Co managed to serve clients profitably, transferring most of the additional costs and getting a bump for improved service-level agreements and number of orders managed similar to the one they usually get during peak times like Black... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Usage and Policies - Research Computing Services

someone with an active appointment, is required for access to RCS resources.... Research Computing Platform Terms of Service This Agreement establishes the terms and conditions under which HBS will provide you with an account to the... View Details

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

"contamination" of the social technology. This stands in contrast to the common approach in acquisitions to integrate and rationalize the assets into the new owner's systems, structure, and culture. Some of the specific mechanisms used in successful... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

May 1995
Article

Contractual Arrangements in Franchising: An Empirical Investigation

By: D. Agrawal and R. Lal

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements

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October 2009
Journal Article

Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer

By: Oriol Carbonell and Diego A. Comin

This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to renegotiate their agreement. We study optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Research; Sports Industry; Spain