Agreements and Arrangements - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

generation of businesspeople to follow his lead." These gifts point to increasing momentum around Harvard, HBS, and Brazil, highlighted by last year's visit by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff to the University to witness the signing of... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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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... View Details

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

26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger

in the past. And I think she started to see me act with the boys in a new way, act with her in a new way, deal with challenges in a new way and, most importantly, which is one of the [laughs] very unique things about this story, negotiate... View Details

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

mixed martial artists from around the world. An enormous screen shows highlights from previous matchups held since ONE FC’s 2011 founding, in locations as diverse as China, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

12 Nov 2021
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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... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

four-inch-thick shelves that run along both sides of the 1,000-square-foot space; many have a handwritten recommendation alongside. The books are arranged in unexpected and frequently shifting categories.... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Nov 2020
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How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

for free once a week and arranged for them to take open positions at CVS until Panera was able to take them back, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. “I believe that life has to be a balance... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

01 Mar 2003
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Trust Me

trust. “The aspect of a contract that hurts the building of trust is its binding nature. When I know that you are forced to cooperate, it takes away all of the risk. If I leave some element of risk in, by using a contract that isn’t completely binding — like a verbal... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Apr 2002
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Insights into Business in Islamic World

Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in Islamic countries, the... View Details

Keywords: Islam; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2000
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Looking to the East

policies of Western entities such as the IMF and the World Bank are often contrary to India's best interests, he told the newspaper that a strategic agreement between India and... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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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 View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

part, Chinese reformers who negotiated the terms of the WTO agreement made a calculated gamble that it would provide the necessary leverage to force policy changes necessary for homegrown businesses — including SOEs View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

Administration–International Development/Master in Business Administration (MPA-ID/MBA). These will replace the existing “concurrent” degree programs at HBS and KSG, an arrangement that has enabled students... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services; Administrative and Support Services

01 Jun 1998
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New Releases

creative departure from the current wisdom, Bradach focuses on a powerful organizational arrangement he identifies as the "plural form"; that is, chains composed of both company-owned and franchise units.... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services

events are big hits; nontechnical volunteers can build and maintain a club Web site; and the low cost appeals to small clubs with limited resources. HBS signed a long-term View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; alumni groups; website; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada

conversation covered a range of issues, including the new $30 billion Canadian child care budget, which Collenette called “potentially transformative,” the likelihood that work-from-home arrangements will persist, the ways men can support... View Details

02 May 2023
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Banking’s Regular Rescuer

that Dimon has agreed to buy in a federally backed transaction, following JPMorgan's takeovers of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual during the 2008 financial crisis. All three deals have helped defuse panics, while also benefitting... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, View Details

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