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- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
the better off you are. More generally, being as careful as you can be with resources, and flexible in terms of the types of arrangements that you are willing to enter into, are particularly important in an environment such as this one.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
about how poor operational decisions create unnecessary complications that lead to quality problems and lower labor productivity and, in general, make life hard for retail employees." Ton is interested in demonstrating how operations... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited self-reports or third-party attestation become more attractive as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Playing With Fire at Sittercity (A)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon
To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family and Family Relationships; Expansion; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Gordon. "Playing With Fire at Sittercity (A)." Harvard Business School Case 809-009, January 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
counterparties? (This was an extremely risky hedging arrangement that required Enron to issue more stock if either the current value of its stock or the future value of its commodity contracts declined and that, in addition, left Enron... View Details
- June 29, 2022
- Other Article
Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation
By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details
Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry
Luca, Michael, Ginger Zhe Jin, and Daniel Martin. "Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation." Management Science Review (June 29, 2022). (Summary of "Complex Disclosure," Management Science, May 2022.)
- January 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon
To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Problems and Challenges; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Service Operations; Family and Family Relationships; Competition; Expansion; Internet
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Gordon. "Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-010, January 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- December 2010 (Revised April 2012)
- Background Note
Stalemate at the WTO: TRIPS, Agricultural Subsidies, and the Doha Round
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
This note analyzes disputes over intellectual property enforcement and agricultural trade barriers at the center of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Trade; Globalization; Governance; International Relations; Intellectual Property; Agreements and Arrangements; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Stalemate at the WTO: TRIPS, Agricultural Subsidies, and the Doha Round." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-043, December 2010. (Revised April 2012.)
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
Farre-Mensa, Joan. "Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders." 2010.
- November 2010
- Case
Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Jason Cheng Qian
Esquel Group, leading manufacturer of quality shirts, sought to negotiate long-term partnerships with often-exploited farmers in Xinjiang (western China) to procure a superior cotton variety. Seeking to secure a large supply of specialty cotton in an ethical and... View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leasing; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Hong Kong; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
Sebenius, James K., and Jason Cheng Qian. "Esquel Group: Building a Sustainable Partnership with Cotton Farmers in Xinjiang (A)." Harvard Business School Case 911-031, November 2010.
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
is an arrangement in which the seller is paid based on the actual performance of its product or service. It is becoming much more popular. In the advertising industry, agencies had been traditionally paid 15 percent of the cost of the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
more than 30,000 emails sent among colleagues experimenting with various work arrangements during the COVID pandemic in 2020. He teamed with Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, HBS doctoral student Kyle Schirmann, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 2019
- Article
Pay-for-Monopoly?: An Assessment of Reverse Payment Deals by Pharmaceutical Companies
By: Sana Rafiq and Max Bazerman
Abstract
Over the past eighteen years, pharmaceutical firms have developed a blueprint to impede competition in order
to maintain their monopoly profits. This scheme, termed pay-for-delay, involves direct or indirect payment of
money from a branded-drug manufacturer... View Details
Rafiq, Sana, and Max Bazerman. "Pay-for-Monopoly? An Assessment of Reverse Payment Deals by Pharmaceutical Companies." Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 3, no. 1 (2019): 37–43.
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
simple guideline, that every 10 years or so, expect a major disruption. So you need 6 months cash on hand to weather it.” Larry recommended contingency planning. As he put it, “Operational contingency plans are unlikely to be helpful. But financial contingency View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
"interests," or what each side really cares about. Failure to uncover interests often leads to mistakes in our second dimension, deal design, such as treating potentially more cooperative agreements as pure price deals in which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
had handled the account to find out the concerns Impress had had before the conflict escalated. She arranged to offer Impress a few perks in a new contract as a show of good faith. She asked the president of another RLX client, who knew... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the overall objectives of the firm in relation to customers, investors, and regulators. Now people are chosen to step into these roles and the organization is set in motion. What will happen in real time? Once on the job, the bonding drive will View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
for major innovations. The science base was high quality and deep. Research on animal feeds could lead over time into a successful pregnancy test. Unilever's knowledge about edible fats and detergents was second to none in the world. This... View Details
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
top executives and shareholders. That being said, the pandemic may well lead to more changes, because employees are making it clear across industries that they want to have a say on their working conditions, on the working View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
compensation data could lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is... View Details