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  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-518 Betfair (C) Prompted by a takeover bid from CVC, Betfair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

get a call from a consultant who knows all about your impending bid and offers to help. The clear message is you are not going to win unless you use me." “The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

improvements, and beautification. Since 2007, the DUMBO BID has done "small things that are collectively big" to improve the area and are in line with New York City's "plaNYC," a blueprint to become a "sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's sixth largest bank. Several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

about Kripalu's search for an executive director, she jumped at the opportunity - and not a moment too soon. "The search process was almost over," she says. Despite her eleventh-hour bid for the job and a blizzard that nearly prevented... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

one. Sometimes there's no effect. For example, bidding for a condo at one resort won't affect your opportunities in other locations. But when relationships are at stake, courting one prospect may mean forsaking others. Sometimes going... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

GMBuyPower.com, which enables customers to order cars online. The second is the development of its OnStar technology, which, according to the company's 1999 annual report, will enable the first "Web car." 72 The third change is the development of a B2B auto... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

competing bid for the shares of Nippon Broadcasting Systems (NBS). Livedoor, the other bidder, is a highly valued Internet company that has been accused of financial wizardry to keep its stock price high. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

(ForeEdge) The authors tell how an ad hoc, underfunded group of citizens worked together to challenge Boston boosters, the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee and derail Boston’s bid to host the 2024... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Spray Canon

deciding who is even allowed to bid on it; Riley has described the modern art market as “a semiprivate social club that screens new entrants to determine whether they are qualified for membership.” It’s a relatively recent development,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Private Equity under Investigation

capital.” Now modern-day trustbusters have again launched an investigation into collusion in financial services, this time focusing on private-equity firms. The Justice Department is concerned that private-equity firms are teaming up to View Details
Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

with one another.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: glebchik] Related Reading: When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number Deconstructing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

and negotiate deals. If a tender or bid goes through and both parties sign a contract and deliver the material, they pay Open Mineral a fee per ton of raw material. Chernilovskiy, who is the company’s COO, and Eykher, who is CEO, say that... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

talking about. Imagine that you are looking to replace the fence around your backyard, as my wife and I were a couple of years ago. What do you do? You talk to several fence contractors, and you get bids from a few who you think would do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

create a partnership to acquire the assets of Parmalat in Uruguay. Focuses on their analysis prior to submitting a bid and their plan for improving the operations once their bid is accepted. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

soon working side by side with its dynamic pastor, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, to take Allen’s ministry outside the church walls. In 1986, after eight years as a senior executive at General Motors, Reed left GM to manage Flake’s successful View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

good, but many times it is not. For example, in one study that I just completed with my co-author Martine Haas at Cornell University, we studied whether sales teams were successful in securing client bids and found that many times sales... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

Huntsman Corporation (A) In July 2007, after several failed attempts to acquire Huntsman Corporation, Hexion/Apollo prevailed in a bidding war for the company and signed a definitive merger agreement. Apollo had down View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

Goldberg and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Supplement 313-019 The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne