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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Human Behavior & Decision-Making Human Behavior & Decision-Making 2014 Book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See By: Max Bazerman This book will examine the common failure to notice critical... View Details
- 1983
- Chapter
On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital is Not Tradeable." In Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, edited by Zvi Bodie and John B. Shoven. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. (Reprinted in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume I, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000.)
- 23 Sep 2014
- News
We Can't Talk about Inequality without Talking about Talent
- July 2012
- Case
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
By: John Coates, Clayton Rose and David Lane
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms. In February 2011, Judge Travis Laster granted a preliminary... View Details
Keywords: Client Management; Fiduciary Duty; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Investment Banking; Private Equity; Ethics; Finance; Reputation; Banking Industry; United States
Coates, John, Clayton Rose, and David Lane. "Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods." Harvard Business School Case 313-036, July 2012.
- June 2009
- Case
Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
The senior vice president of project finance for a global oil and gas company must determine the weighted average cost of capital for the company as a whole and each of its divisions as part of the annual capital budgeting process. The case uses comparable companies to... View Details
Keywords: Risk Assessment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Cost of Capital; Cash Flow; Capital Structure; Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Energy Industry
Luehrman, Timothy A., and Joel L. Heilprin. "Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-129, June 2009.
- 11 Feb 2014
- News
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
- March 2011
- Module Note
Varieties of Capitalism
This module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy. View Details
Keywords: Economy; Markets; Curriculum and Courses; Policy; Competitive Advantage; Goals and Objectives; Geographic Location; Strategy; Germany
Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Varieties of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Module Note 711-096, March 2011.
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Root Capital (TN)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Teaching Note for [510035]. View Details
- Web
Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Archives Photograph Collection At Harvard Business School, Dean Donham began to shift the focus from scientific management and applied economics to human relations, a growing course of study. Mayo’s 1935... View Details
- May 1982
- Case
Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (B)--West Germany
By: Wickham Skinner, D. Q. Mills and Jean K. Trescott
Skinner, Wickham, D. Q. Mills, and Jean K. Trescott. "Honeywell Europe: Human Resource Planning (B)--West Germany." Harvard Business School Case 682-051, May 1982.
- November 1999
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)
By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Fluctuation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management; Risk Management; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (C)." Harvard Business School Case 200-009, November 1999.
- March 2014
- Article
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 58–66.
- February 2004 (Revised November 2012)
- Exercise
Capital Investment Analysis
By: Dwight B. Crane and Josh Lerner
Teaches techniques of evaluating investment alternatives. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details
Crane, Dwight B., and Josh Lerner. "Capital Investment Analysis." Harvard Business School Exercise 204-140, February 2004. (Revised November 2012.)
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?
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Private Equity and Venture Capital
including: General partners and junior partners of private equity and venture capital firms Principals from the limited partner community who invest in private equity and venture capital firms Chief... View Details
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Venture Capital Advisors - Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs-In-Residence Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Venture Capital Advisors Lawyers-in-Residence Rock Executive Fellows Venture Capital Advisors (VCAs) are managing and... View Details
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Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details
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Investment Management
Professor Chacko's research looks into the portfolio choice decisions of individuals and institutions. He is particularly concerned with optimal portfolio choice and consumption decisions in a dynamic framework. His work looks at how economic agents make these... View Details
- 2023
- Chapter
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Chap. 1 in HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students, 1–15. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.
- 2013
- Teaching Note
Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang, and Hong Zhang. "Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2013.