Top Ten Business Deals of 2013: US Housing Market Recovery
With home sales heating up in some U.S. regions in 2013, homebuyers faced competition they haven’t seen since before the real-estate bubble burst, and it showed up … Read This Post
Top Ten Business Deals of 2013: Office Depot – Office Max
Office Depot’s $976 million, all-stock acquisition of OfficeMax, announced on February 20 and completed on November 5, was widely praised as an important step toward consolidating the … Read This Post
Top Ten Business Deals of 2013: The “Burgers and Ketchup” Acquisition
On February 14, 2013, the news broke that Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by Warren Buffett, was planning to purchase H.J. Heinz—and its iconic Heinz ketchup—for $23 … Read This Post
Top Ten Business Deals of 2013: PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz & Company
On October 30, the news came that Big 4 accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers had reached a deal to purchase the consulting firm Booz & Company with the goal … Read This Post
Top Ten Business Deals of 2013: William Morris and IMG
In early December, super-agent Ari Emanuel’s William Morris Endeavor talent agency and private equity backer Silver Lake won a bidding war for the sports and media talent … Read This Post
Top Business Negotiations of 2013: JPMorgan’s DOJ settlement
In July 2013, U.S. Associate Attorney General Tony West met with JPMorgan Chase executives to outline an array of civil and criminal investigations of the bank, related … Read This Post
Top Business Negotiations of 2013: Time Warner versus CBS
On October 31, 2013, Time Warner Cable reported a huge quarterly loss of television subscribers, the largest in its history: 306,000 of its 11.7 million subscribers had … Read This Post
Top Business Negotiations of 2013: Fiat’s Pursuit of Chrysler
In 2009, when Chrysler on the verge of financial collapse, the Treasury Department negotiated a swift solution to save it from extinction. Chrysler would go into bankruptcy, … Read This Post
Top Business Negotiations of 2013: Simon & Schuster versus Barnes & Noble
When months of negotiations with publishing house Simon & Schuster reached a standoff in January 2013, Barnes & Noble attempted to gain leverage by significantly reducing its … Read This Post
Top Business Negotiations of 2013: Robin Thicke versus Marvin Gaye
Thicke had previously acknowledged Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up” as an inspiration for “Blurred Lines,” but he and his cowriters insisted they had not … Read This Post
Happy Holidays from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School!
We at the Program on Negotiation wish all of our friends a very happy holiday season. We are honored to work with you in helping improve the … Read This Post
“Sacred Values” Crop Up in Conflict Management
On November 24, the United States and five other world powers announced an interim agreement to temporarily freeze Iran’s nuclear program. The six-month accord is meant to … Read “Sacred Values” Crop Up in Conflict Management