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- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
in introducing a fabric into the Company’s athletic garments that, when stretched, became transparent. He went on to explain on Bloomberg TV that “Some women’s bodies don’t work for the pants.” Employee behaviors began reflecting this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
the mind and body work is thought provoking. For example, in Everything is Obvious, Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us, sociologist Duncan Watts' thesis is that, in predicting outcomes and acting accordingly, we give far... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
approaches, despite the very real tensions between them. Reconciling Difference And Similarity One would think companies that try to exploit differences would not find it easy to exploit similarities as well. And indeed, a large body of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
we are not talking about executives who are known to have committed serious assaults or other potential criminal acts. No board that I am personally aware of would consider hiring those people. The growing body of senior executives who’ve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Research Summary
Overview
Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
let up on himself, either, continuing to work and play tennis even as his body failed. "He loved tennis, but it was a constant struggle for him," remembers his son Peter. "We held his memorial service at the Belmont Tennis... View Details
- 1988
- Book
The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley
By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Body of Literature
Roth, A. E., ed. The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Research Summary
Supply Chain Inventory Planning
My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details
- Article
Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences
This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism... View Details
Halaburda, Hanna. "Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences." Games and Economic Behavior 69, no. 2 (July 2010): 365–393.
- 1992
- Working Paper
A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Deposit Insurance and Other Guarantees
By: Zvi Bodie and R. Merton
- July 2001 (Revised September 2001)
- Background Note
Definitions and Typologies of the Family Business
By: John A. Davis
Introduces students to the wide variety of family business definitions in literature today. Also reviews prominent typologies of family business systems. View Details
Davis, John A. "Definitions and Typologies of the Family Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 802-007, July 2001. (Revised September 2001.)
- 1995
- Chapter
Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspective
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
Merton, Robert C., and Zvi Bodie. "Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspective." Chap. 8 in The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, by D. B. Crane, K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano, 263–282. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
- 1993
- Chapter
Deposit Insurance Reform: A Functional Approach
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Insurance Industry; Banking Industry
Merton, Robert C., and Zvi Bodie. "Deposit Insurance Reform: A Functional Approach." In Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. Vol. 38, edited by A. Meltzer and C. Plosser. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993.
- First Quarter 2005
- Article
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
Merton, Robert C., and Zvi Bodie. "The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure." Journal of Investment Management 3, no. 1 (First Quarter 2005): 1–23. (Was Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 02-074, 2002.) (Reprinted in Chinese in Journal of Comparative Studies, Issue 17, March 2005.)
- 2002
- Working Paper
Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- 1995
- Working Paper
Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspective
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- 1995
- Working Paper
A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Financial Environment
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie