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Deals - Course Catalog
creatively address those challenges through contract and deal design. Career Focus: This course is restricted to JD and MBA students and is geared towards preparing those students to face complex deals of many different natures. In the... View Details
- 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
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50837 Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2002 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
LAE Enterprises Corp.
Jay Entrepreneur had to decide whether it was worth his time to plow through a 12-page term sheet for a Series A round of preferred stock prepared by HBS Investors, a well-established venture capital firm that did seed, early-round, and mezzanine financings. He could... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Bagley, Constance E. "LAE Enterprises Corp." Harvard Business School Case 803-025, August 2002. (Revised July 2003.)
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
insisting that no one's contribution be marginalized, and framing new information within familiar contexts, teams can escape the performance pressure paradox and keep doing their best work when it matters most. Book:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
closer to Earth. Two years ago, the agency awarded a nearly $7 billion contract to SpaceX—launched in 2002 by PayPal and Tesla Motors cofounder Musk—and Boeing to transport US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) starting... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
H-Soft Mumbai
By: Ramana Nanda
Siddharth Kapoor, the Founder and CEO of H-Soft Mumbai reflected on his meeting as he walked out of VC Ventures' offices in Mumbai. After a few months of intensely pitching his startup to several different investors, he finally had a term sheet in hand. Despite this... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital Term Sheet; India; Business Startups; Investment; Venture Capital; Contracts; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Decision Making
Nanda, Ramana. "H-Soft Mumbai." Harvard Business School Case 812-168, May 2012. (Revised October 2012.)
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 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
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/905409-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-052 The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A) Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
for instance, a judge in California is not obligated to enforce the contract because it conflicts with California state law. "There's a saying out in California: You never stop hiring someone," says Marx (MBA '05, DBA '09), now an... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances Authors: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Publication: American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze how variations in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
game. The best match is one between the teams ranked first and second in the coaches' or sportswriters' polls. If those two teams play each other, the winner can claim to be the national champion. But for many years, athletic conferences used to sign View Details
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
ahead of the previous year! During the pandemic, 5.7 million new homes bought the Betty Crocker brand, which was the highest penetration growth across all General Mills brands. That kind of consumer demand required radical action. We quickly engaged with several new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
drought-relief operation, among other activities. "I'm the only CEO who flew a bush plane and rode camels for work," he said. After contracting acute viral hepatitis in 1987, he returned to the United States and enrolled at HBS. There... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
Prokanga started with contract and part-time placements but, since then, has expanded to also include full-time roles. “We started by placing primarily consultants with marketing agencies and small startups, focusing on the marketing... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Deep Sight Technology, Inc.
By: Henry B. Reiling and Catherine M. Conneely
The founders of a deep sea technology company must refine their tentative capital structure and founders agreement in response to tax factors. Some parties are conveying partnership assets, others are conveying rights to an invention, another will be primarily... View Details