Equity partners have relatively stable roles and domains of expertise; by contrast, pre-partnership employees have provisional roles (they are employed understanding that they either move "up or out") and should be considered potential aspirants to partnership.
Negotiated joining helps make sense of the pre-partnership trajectory, in which an aspirant must develop a "platform" for election to partnership: domain expertise comprising a unique configuration of role components and individual client relationships that takes advantage of the aspirant's skills and inclinations and is relevant to the firm's needs.
ARNOLD S. COHEN Pres., Partnership for the Homeless New York, Aug. 21, 2000.
USAID recently announced a pre-competitive partnership with Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., Cooperative Coffees, Starbucks, and Root Capital to help coffee farmers combat the devastating coffee rust outbreak.
It is not known whether the couple had signed a pre-civil partnership agreement and the eventual dissolution settlement has not been made public.
STEVE PASIERB Pres., Partnership for a Drug-Free America New York, New York.
Ericsson (pre-Sony partnership) invested millions into the device, only to be upstaged by the lackluster N-Gage from Nokia.
In some cases, the subjects' perception of the timing of their HIV acquisition pre-dated partnership formation, but others reported a perceived time of HIV infection and laboratory confirmation which corresponded with partnership formation (Table 1).
An impressive presentation and pre-launch partnerships with CNN and Huffington Post mean that we shouldn't be surprised if their seed round closes before their launch in two weeks.
New handsets will be announced and pre-announced, partnerships forged, services and apps unveiled, and future technologies demoed, giving us a pretty good idea of where the next twelve months will take us.
The move provoked some uproar among net neutrality advocates, but it seems to be less about creating walled gardens and more about cleaning up prior commitments and pre-existing partnerships.
