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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot implement agreements costlessly, and parties often prefer to use "non-cooperative" implementation. We present a...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
financial product. The supply of venture capital is also likely to continue growing. Within the past two years, numerous pension funds have invested in private equity for the first time. Many experienced investors have also decided to increase their allocations to...
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- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
critical that they discuss why and how the research was used or not used this time. Even client companies that seem less likely to actually make use of research results can make temporary arrangements to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. “The View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
expert and crowd preferences might be expected to differ greatly. We instead find substantial agreement between the funding decisions of crowds and experts. Where crowds View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
pure process focus to substance: the principles of designing agreements that create value and are sustainable. Inexperienced negotiators, says Sebenius, often unconsciously limit themselves to a...
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by Anita M. Harris
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a...
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by Joseph Fuller
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
to take into account the cost of capital employed during the term of the option. The severance payment arrangements to which they agree are too lavish, regardless of the reasons for severance. Jensen and...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
I was born in Rajasthan, India, came to the U.S. when I was very young, and grewup in New Hampshire, Delaware, and Massachusetts. I attended Harvard College, Harvard Law School, View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
the world became adept at working from home. In “Zoom forever” speculation, many companies are now planning to continue this arrangement after the pandemic, and a majority of workers say that this sounds...
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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene first, often with limited...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS
The work both renewed my excitement to come back to HBS and to aggressively pursue healthcare coursework in EC year. I focused almost entirely on healthcare and entrepreneurship coursework during the fall...
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
to all but guess inventory levels and locations across the supply chain at any point in time. This is because there is no agreement on something as simple as how a part number is defined or how inventory...
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by Andrew McAfee
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
social networking industry in 2003, but has been overtaken by MySpace and Facebook. The two options are: 1) offer new features to help members enhance their offline lives, such as arranging events with their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
terms of the deal and exclusivity agreement already sketched out with Citigroup or to approve a definitive merger agreement with Wells Fargo. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
States, and Georgia-Pacific, one of the world's biggest forest products companies. Encountering mounting difficulties for their respective agendas, the two longtime foes decided to join forces in 1994 to create a landmark View Details
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Specifically, McGinn said that after the training, the girls in the negotiation group were better able to advocate for themselves and to arrange for more resources from their guardians. That did not come,...
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Re: Kathleen L. McGinn