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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

relationships between 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... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

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
News

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

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms faster, so they could expand their... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

commercial business," Spar said. "I think this is wrong. The demands of the parent will outweigh political and moral opposition." However, those who want to succeed in the market need to fight to shape property, privacy, and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

designed to use the power of financial contracting to unlock innovation and help transform the social sector. Cases will require rigorous financial and investment analysis, building on and extending skills acquired in the RC finance... View Details

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

event is realized is to believe that you are insured when you are not. Therefore, the users of all financial contracts including CDS must be diligent in understanding and monitoring the performance risk of counterparts to their... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

previous stories and aggregate news that combine information from several sources. Business Economics Program After a few years doing research at Goldman Sachs, I found that my interests spanned a broad set of topics: asset pricing, corporate finance, View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too easy to give into food cravings... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

in China would be supported by our government. We returned with signed contracts in hand. This was the most important thing I did as Commerce secretary." One of the first women to graduate from Harvard Business School, Franklin has built... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Emerging Information

offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

psychological contract between themselves and employers. They work to make a living, but also they aspire to find purpose and meaning in what they do. We in the academy have much intellectual capital to develop to help organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance." Contractive body postures such as folded arms have shown the opposite effect, decreasing testosterone and increasing cortisol. Bos and Cuddy wondered whether there might... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

institutions to leverage their procurement power to support entrepreneurs of color. As part of our work, we were able to triple our private institutions’ annual spend with local Black and Brown-owned companies, shifting over $15 million in new View Details

July 1989 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Colonial Homes

By: David E. Bell

Colonial Homes supplies a complete raw materials package to build entire homes. The price of the package is guaranteed at the signing of the sales contract, while delivery (and payment) are not effected for up to six months. In an effort to reduce its exposure to... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Contracts; Price; Price Bubble; Fluctuation; Monopoly; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Accommodations Industry; Real Estate Industry

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Educators

Purchase

January 2011
Case

William Jeffrey Departs from Bay Colony Mutual

By: Lena G. Goldberg

A board's decision-making and process in investigating and terminating a company's CEO are explored and the company's policies and contractual obligations considered. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Resignation and Termination; Contracts; Leadership

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Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2023
News

The Latest Model

design—to help clients no matter what their business happens to be. As a result, they have become highly skilled at explaining the finer points of contract theory and incentive design to executives who want to mint their own... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

sustainable deals can be applied to international and financial transactions. Also crossing unit lines is Professor Richard E. Walton who contributes expertise in strategic negotiation to the examination of economic and social contracts... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

not part of a passenger’s contract with United. (In a request for rulemaking, I recently asked the Department of Transportation to rule this and similar policies invalid and unenforceable.) But even if the policy was binding, it wouldn’t... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

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