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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing and mailing paper contracts,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
communicating that we want this to be a good, healthy place to work.” Achieving that buy-in comes from an explicit, public focus on that goal, incorporating creative employee ideas about how to achieve it, he adds—all backstopped by hard metrics to track company-wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
battling among themselves, were willing to pay ever-increasing sums for the rights to broadcast sports. Charles G. "Chase" Carey (MBA '81), chairman and CEO of Fox Television, was the driving force behind Fox's broadcast agreements with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup. There are different ways to finance... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
and values of negotiation beyond formal legal requirements. They address issues such as what we owe our counterparts in the way of candor or disclosure, to what extent we should use financial or legal pressure to force settlement, and whether we should worry about the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
payoff is the ability to reconfigure any landscape in ways that make agreement possible that wasn't possible before." - Margie Kelley by Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant (Jossey-Bass) View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
percent stake to the company in 1994 with the agreement that it would not attempt to acquire more than a 25 percent stake for a decade. As that agreement neared its end, Nestlé surprised Rogers by making an... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
harmful consequences of climate change fall disproportionately on poor nations that have done little to contribute to it. Agreement on a fund to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate damage in poorer nations was seen as a surprising... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
than $50,000. Prieto would share conducting duties that night with the previous music director. “Carlos had the absolute right to walk,” says Hugh Long, president of the LPO governing board. Prieto’s contract stipulated that if either party was unable to perform their... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
$9 million operation. The company, renamed Harvard Bioscience, Inc. — it has a licensing agreement with Harvard University — went public in 2000 and by 2010 had become a $108 million firm. Asked how he came to decide to work in the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
family matter, the group can be totally candid in ways other people in your life may not be. They can define the issue for you and help you move through it.” Confidentiality is the key to a successful forum and many groups include some form of non-disclosure View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
co-directors, the course intentionally enrolls equal numbers of HBS, HKS, and HLS students, and explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively overcome barriers to agreement in civil and interstate conflicts, as well as in... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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