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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on development and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
concluded that trust has important positive consequences. For example, trusted automakers spend significantly less time contracting and haggling with their suppliers. Similarly, we know that trust lowers the costs of negotiation and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
to supporting municipalities through the life of their assets and relationship with Highland. It’s a complex job, but immensely rewarding job to balance the cost control at the backend, while still delivering an exceptional service to our customers over a 10-, 15-, and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample mentioned family View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
improved girls’ outcomes by moving households’ human capital investments closer to the efficient frontier. This is consistent with an incomplete contracting model, where negotiation allows daughters to strategically cooperate with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
platforms, 2) gravity model analyses of global outsourcing contract flows and their determinants for digital labor markets, and 3) quantification of own- and cross-country elasticities for contract work by... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
destroyed by Katrina and abandoned. © futurewalk Every charter school operates under a five-year performance contract with its authorizer (usually the state department of education or a university). The school is subject to the same state... View Details
- Web
1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
requirements. The application process varies significantly depending on the passport holder and immersion location, and therefore the ability for the Global Experience Office and its contracted visa provider to operationally support and... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
really exacting and precise,” Zhang says. “There’s some research by colleagues at Columbia showing that giving precise offers, in contract negotiations for instance, can lead to beneficial monetary outcomes for the offer maker.” “When... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
people had been using to look at auction bidding behavior," says Beshears. "When I saw it I realized that it was a wonderful place to go beyond the anecdotal evidence to look at organizational performance." That's because firms bid for View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
and negotiate deals. If a tender or bid goes through and both parties sign a contract and deliver the material, they pay Open Mineral a fee per ton of raw material. Chernilovskiy, who is the company’s COO, and Eykher, who is CEO, say that... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
dissolves the social contract between people and government." Phil Clark commented that "Those who go bankrupt lose sight of personal principle and beliefs. A country going bankrupt undermines itself and demonstrates its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Angela R. Hicks Bowman
out a business plan.” Hicks also counsels startups to embrace “really great advisors.” She suggests over-investing in the best lawyers—“a bad contract that holds you back for a decade is not worth the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
were able to lock in gas prices before the Russian-Ukraine war and have benefitted from very low cost during the winter, while some of their competitors had to stop producing because they could not purchase natural gas due to the sudden price escalations. The site’s... View Details
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The Prescription for Lowering Health Care Costs? Look at What Doctors Do | Working Knowledge
can work with their insurance providers to expand access to ED-like services for their employees, or even contract directly with a growing number of businesses that provide such services, like Amazon’s One Medical. Given the challenges... View Details
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Burden Park | About
functions, Burden was a flexible amphitheater-style space that expanded and contracted to meet the needs of each individual gathering. William A.M. Burden III (AB 1953, MBA 1955) Although Mrs. Burden did not live to see the building... 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