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- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
various forms of potentially unethical behavior. These include greed, unreasonable amounts of leverage, subtle forms of corruption (such as ratings agencies that appear to have had a conflict of interest), complex financial instruments...
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Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
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The Formula - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home The Formula “Restrictions on Options Pricing” manuscript. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In 1970, Robert Merton joined Myron...
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Kwame Owusu-Kesse
ideas into practice. I am excited by this challenge, as it will force me to analyze multifaceted problems, determine the right questions to address, and develop advantageous solutions. Education reform and poverty alleviation are complex...
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- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Exploration Kuyoro spent her childhood in Nigeria before continuing schooling in the U.K. After completing her degree in Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of View Details
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- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have become too View Details
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by Jim Heskett
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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) - Course Catalog
unique and comprehensive curriculum aimed at preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs, leaders, and investors to succeed in a rapidly changing economic landscape. This course is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs...
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- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
that choke the real economy and reinforce a spiral of lower or negative growth. For all the difficulties and risks, there may yet be a positive resolution to this crisis for one simple reason: the stakes are too high in this game of View Details
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by Dante Roscini
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
CEO Aaron Feurstein of Malden Mills On a bitter-cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire—driven out of control by gale-force winds—raged through the factory complex of Malden Mills, a privately held maker of fabrics (including the...
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James E. Aisner
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
thoughts in complex situations and confidently articulate your thoughts. For today’s political environment, especially here in Baltimore, we need somebody who can do both of those things. Somebody who can intelligently look at something...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
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Accounting for Managers: Text and Cases; coauthor (with Sharon M. McKinnon) of The Information Mosaic; and coeditor (with Robert S. Kaplan) of Accounting & Management: Field Study Perspectives. A graduate of the University of Redlands, Bruns earned his MBA from HBS in...
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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
world of irrationality. Much of traditional economics becomes outmoded when complex relationships based on often counter-intuitive behaviors are taken into account. Instead of a management philosophy...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
complex and troubling questions of what to do when "doing the right thing" requires doing something else wrong or leaving a right thing undone. It examines choices in work and life and the critical points at which the two become one....
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Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
Engineering at the University of Warwick, she was eager to continue her education and study the intersection of economics and politics. However, before doing so, Kuyoro first returned home to Nigeria for a year of National Youth Service,...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But deadlines, as they so often do,...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event...
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Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. Business school...
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- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Water.org, we are singularly focused on solving the global water crisis in our lifetime. There are about 844 million people every day who lack safe water and about 2.3 billion who lack access to adequate sanitation. The health and View Details