Agreements - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2010
Teaching Note

Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged) (TN)

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Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Venture Capital; Lawfulness; Attorney and Client Relationships; Employees; Resignation and Termination

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03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

nations are now suffering." There was little agreement over how these barriers might be addressed. While suggesting "less and not more help from government," Doug Elliott nevertheless reminded us that many of those workers... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

their companies before committing to VC funds. "WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF YOUR MOST VALUED ADVISORS, WHICH, IN MANY WAYS, ARE THE VCS." “Whether you go into this agreement with the intention... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

suspicious. That suspicion, coupled with Huntsman's leverage that resulted from a competitive bid situation, prompted and enabled Huntsman to negotiate seller friendly terms. For example, there was no financing contingency, and although the merger View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
Case

Reading Energy

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois

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20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like you can just reestablish that capability locally," he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

several of these relationships in depth. An electrical parts distributor for General Electric, they observed, initially adhered closely to its informal agreement with the company, but eventually provided additional service that surpassed... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

Hong Kong for guidance in developing China's economy. Cheng stressed, however, that Hong Kong's future economic success will depend on China's observance of the formal transition agreement whose terms state that Hong Kong, with its 6.3... View Details

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

Management Strategy Ex-Ante Agreements in Standard Setting and Patent Pool Formation By: Llanes, Gastón, and Joaquín Poblete Abstract—We present a model of standard setting and patent-pool formation. We study the effects of alternative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

by forming collaborative agreements with John Maynard Keynes, Lucien March, Corrado Gini, and other prominent economists of the time. Through these contacts, the Harvard method influenced the evolution of forecasting techniques in several... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Uncertain Environment? Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change Following the adoption of a collective bargaining agreement in 2005, National Hockey League GMs had one month to absorb the new rules and put a team together. How to best... View Details

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

country’s oldest and largest business groups. In August 1997, the Ayala-led Manila Water Company signed a 25-year concession agreement (later extended another 15 years) to operate the water and sewer systems of Metro Manila’s east zone,... View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

and animist south, on and off since the mid-1950s, has mostly ceased as a result of a peace agreement between rebels in the south and the Arab-dominated Khartoum government. But as the major powers squabble about what to do in Darfur,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

02 Jan 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the transition wasn’t happening. Often, those communities had signed... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

For example, Frey Farms used school buses ($1,500 each) instead of tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2015
News

Data-Driven Diligence

after. While Coats and Kienzle had both been VCs for a decade, the company didn’t make a single investment in its first four years. Instead, the pair met with many other VCs and entrepreneurs and negotiated nondisclosure agreements with... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Sep 2015
News

State of the Unions

workforce to move wages upward.” Over the course of 2015, the AFL-CIO will negotiate the contracts of more than 5 million union employees. The most high-profile collective bargaining agreement takes place this fall, when the United Auto... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart

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

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September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron

Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the... View Details