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  • 2009
  • Book

Financial Economics

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and David L. Cleeton
This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Finance; Assets; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation
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  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
  • Webinars: Career

Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching

Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

their place. I do not claim that arbitrage to exploit differences is any more a complete strategic solution than the optimal exploitation of scale economies. To the contrary: If they are to get their global strategies right in the long... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

    Kai Krautter

    Kai is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on the challenges people experience in maintaining their passion over time, and “flextraversion,” which he defines as the ability to adapt one’s levels of... View Details
    • July 2018
    • Article

    Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    This article incorporates into modern optimal tax theory the classical logic of benefit‐based taxation in which an individual's benefit from the activities of the state is tied to his or her income‐earning ability. First‐best optimal policy is characterized... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Theory; Policy
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    • August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Background Note

    Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture

    By: Jill Avery
    While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated brand architecture. Brand portfolio strategy involves the design, deployment, and management of... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Portfolio; Brand Extension; Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brand Architecture; Consumer Behavior; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy
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    • 13 Oct 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

    • 29 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Magie Cheng

    • June 1983
    • Article

    A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

    By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy Stokey
    Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is... View Details
    Keywords: Tournaments; Contracts
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    • 06 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The Best Place for Retirement Funds

    and Harold Zhang, set out to derive rules for optimal asset location behavior for investors with these individually managed retirement accounts. Two results came out of this work: First, the optimal strategy... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • Article

    Orienteering for Electioneering

    By: Jonah Kallenbach, Robert Kleinberg and Scott Duke Kominers
    In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that models the investment decision a political candidate faces when treating his or her opponents’ campaign plans as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; Resource Allocation; Time Management; Analysis
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    • 18 Apr 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

    Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
    • July 2005
    • Exercise

    Pricing for Profit: Multi-Part Pricing in the U.K. Credit Card Industry

    Examines the optimal pricing mechanism for credit cards. View Details
    Keywords: Credit Cards; Price
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
    We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 08 Mar 2016
    • Video

    Educating Global Leaders in China

    • January 1990 (Revised November 1992)
    • Case

    Competition and Product Variety

    Examines the choice of optimal product positioning in a differentiated goods market. View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Competition
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    • 01 Mar 2016
    • News

    Faculty Q&A: Price Check

    • 2009
    • Case

    Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure: Brief Case No. 4040.

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
    A diversified mid-sized manufacturer of kitchen tools contemplates a stock repurchase in response to an unsolicited takeover. The company must analyze its debt capacity and optimal capital structure,while considering associated changes in firm value and stock price.... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Taxation; Stocks; Consumer Products Industry
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      Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

      Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details
      • Career Coach

      Michele Biamonte

      Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She... View Details
      Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All)