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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

companies and their corporate customers, suppliers, and competitors. Restructuring is the process by which companies renegotiate the financial contracts and commitments they have entered into with their creditors and other stakeholders,... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)

preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water,... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

Partners, the social enterprise track winner, plans to create a for-profit education management company operating charter and contract K–12 public schools. “Winning was very affirming and gave us a renewed energy to carry out our plan,”... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

rights to your codified labor and how you should navigate employment contracts or other business agreements over your direct labor and any data byproduct that can be used to train AI models. We will also re-think the power of collective... 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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

18 May 2017
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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

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Frances Dixon

acquisitions and contracting functions and was exposed to industry partners and, “became interested in the business side of how these programs are run.” Following that, Frances assumed responsibility for sixteen C-5 cargo aircrafts as a... View Details

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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

incubators, contract research/manufacturing organizations etc. Educational Objectives This course has been specifically designed for students who are considering founding or joining life sciences ventures upon, or soon after, graduation.... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)

education. the average annual salary for a wnba player is $60,000 to $70,000. I signed a contract recently for a player who will make more in a month overseas than she gets in the WNBA for an entire season. Now how do you explain that?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen

October 1987 (Revised October 1998)
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CVD, Inc. vs. A.S. Markham Corp. (A)

Describes the legal odyssey of two engineers who left their old employer to start a company that was directly competitive. The issues include employment contracts, technology licenses, antitrust, trade secrets, and confidential information. Provides a good opportunity... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Human Resources; Contracts; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Intellectual Property; Ethics; Legal Liability; Business Startups; Monopoly

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries, and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and cost... View Details

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RCP Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

contracts or IRB documentation that impact your use of the RCP and the data therein (relevant policies can be found here ). You will only access the RCP through authorized interfaces. An authorized interface is defined as a workstation or... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on motherhood, work, and movement (under contract with Columbia University Press). She has received fellowships from the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), The... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

after they've contracted an illness, compared with public health's cost-effective preventive approach. I realized that public health is all about policies, systems, and distribution on a wide scale. As an investor, I could see huge... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility initiatives to differentiate themselves in the consumer market. Complex DisclosureCompanies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.... View Details

June 2020
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TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher

This courseware accompanies the case "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Valuation; Negotiation; Cash Flow; Contracts; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States