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  • 1988
  • Other Unpublished Work

Congressional Testimony on Defense Acquisition Policy - U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Acquisition Policy

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: National Security; Contracts; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 10 Aug 2017
  • News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

hard. The other thing I have is, I have a contract with my wife. And we wrote it out on a piece of paper and we both signed it. Because of the way I think about it is, we all have a contract with our... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Yushu Zhou

parents was to build a successful career, one they could be proud of. I managed the world's largest casino resort, won the management contract for the world's tallest hotel, and got accepted into the best schools. I thought my parents... View Details
  • September 1987
  • Comment

Discussion of 'An Analysis of the Use of Accounting and Market Measures of Performance in Executive Compensation Contracts'

By: George P. Baker
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Contracts; Markets; Executive Compensation; Accounting; Performance
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry

By: Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments (Grossman and Hart, 1986; Hart and Moore, 1990). Using rich... View Details
Keywords: Property Rights; Property; Rights; Investment; Contracts; Revenue; Motivation and Incentives; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Agency Revisited

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber
The article presents a comprehensive overview of the principal-agent model that emphasizes the role of trust in the agency relationship. The analysis demonstrates that the legal remedy for breach of duty can result in a full-information efficient outcome eliminating... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Contracts; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Trust
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  • January 2005
  • Exercise

Hamilton Real Estate: Confidential Role Information for the Executive VP of Pearl Investments (SELLER)

By: Deepak Malhotra
Presents a two-party negotiation between the executive VP of Pearl Investments and the CEO of Estate One for the sale of real estate in the town of Hamilton. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Price; Information; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Strategy; Value; Real Estate Industry
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Future Source

applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open source Andela Learning... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

Michael Norton and colleagues. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Assistant Professor Siobhán O’Mahony... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • November 2008
  • Case

The StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost

By: John D. Macomber
The case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation." Material that can be taught includes quantity survey methodology (from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Construction; Cost; Contracts; Bids and Bidding; Real Estate Industry
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  • February 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Barry Riceman at NetD (A)

Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research professionals, his firm is having problems commercializing their ideas. Second, his most brilliant engineer has... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Knowledge Management; Contracts; Research and Development; Creativity; Commercialization
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  • Fast Answer

Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)

Contracting resources for small business provides a list of government sponsored resources that allow you to identify vendors of interest.   For more information about alumni resources, including video tutorials, please refer to our... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, Davin Chor & Paola Conconi
  • January 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

Crisis at the 11th Hour

By: David G. Fubini, Rebecca Henderson, Sarah Gulick and Trevor Fetter
A successful lawyer describes an important decision she had to make as a young attorney about whether to disclose information in a contract. View Details
Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Attorney and Client Relationships; Rank and Position; Trust; Decisions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

case:http://hbr.org/search/513058-PDF-ENG Konys, Inc. Lee, Deishin, and Tunay I. TuncaHarvard Business School Case 613-065 This case describes the sourcing policy for a consumer electronics company. The company must decide how to structure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Action Plan: Brewing Awareness

bitterness of an IPA. To change that, Murad launched White Owl Brewery in his hometown of Mumbai in 2014. A few years later, contract manufactured at plants in northern and southern India, White Owl currently offers four different brews... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Deals Q2 - Course Catalog

transactional instincts, better prepare them to anticipate deal challenges, and equip them with the skills to creatively address those challenges through contract and deal design. Topics developed throughout the course include: how... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Foluke Otudeko

When I was six I contracted childhood measles and went blind for a number of days. As a result, I learned to truly appreciate the gift of sight and even beyond that the importance of vision. Over the years, I discovered there are two... View Details
  • Web

3.1 Student Accounts | MBA

semester), they may request a refund for the credit amount after the beginning of the semester. Sponsored students with third party contracts are ultimately responsible for payment of their bills. Graduating students must pay all billed... View Details