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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • July 1997 (Revised September 2004)
    • Case

    Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines (A)

    By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Jeremy Cott
    Depreciation policies at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines are compared and contrasted against a summary of operating data from each airline. Questions focus attention on differing depreciation policies. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Policy; Financial Statements; Air Transportation Industry
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    • September 2012
    • Case

    BASIX (Abridged)

    By: Shawn Cole and Peter Tufano
    BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microfinance; Household; Risk Management; Insurance; Banking Industry; India
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    The Promise and Peril of Russia's Resurgent State

    By: Rawi Abdelal
    The article discusses the effect of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 on the outlook for Russia's economic growth. The discussion focuses on the status of capitalism in Russia and the government's central role in business. A brief history of Russia's economic... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Financial Crisis; Investment; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Russia
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      Paul A. Gompers

      Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
      Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
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      Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives

      By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
      Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are... View Details
      Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Perception
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      • 14 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Process and Performance

      Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim; Accounting
      • 02 Sep 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Information Risk and Fair Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads

      Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & George Serafeim; Banking

        Richard F. Meyer

        Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
        • 21 Aug 2015
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Banks’ Risk Exposures

        Keywords: by Juliane Begenau; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services
        • December 2008
        • Article

        The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

        By: Joseph L. Bower
        Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
        Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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        • 2023
        • Working Paper

        Saving and Consumption Responses to Student Loan Forbearance

        By: Justin Katz
        How do households adjust savings and consumption in response to liquidity from debt relief? I study this question using policy variation induced by federal student loan forbearance in the 2020 CARES Act and an individual-level panel of daily financial transactions for... View Details
        Keywords: Saving; Consumer Behavior; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Government Legislation
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          Ray Kluender

          Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details

          • Fall 2020
          • Article

          Business Credit Programs in the Pandemic Era

          By: Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Eric Zwick
          We develop a pair of models that speak to the goals and design of the sort of business-lending and corporate-bond purchase programs that have been introduced by governments in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An overarching theme is that, in contrast to the... View Details
          Keywords: COVID-19; Business Lending; Government Intervention; Econometric Models; Health Pandemics; Credit; Governance; Policy
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          • 25 Jul 2023
          • Blog Post

          Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

          business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details
          • 29 Sep 2009
          • First Look

          First Look: September 29

          provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate policy choices. Download the paper... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 15 Aug 2014
          • News

          Getting a handle on inversion

          • October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
          • Case

          Divesting Harvard's Endowment

          By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
          By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
          Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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          • December 2007
          • Case

          Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts

          By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen
          In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the Massachusetts state legislature to introduce a limited liability regime for manufacturing corporations similar to that adopted in neighboring states. At least since 1809, shareholders in the state's manufacturing... View Details
          Keywords: Capital; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Production; Business and Shareholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts
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          • December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
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          Birth of Modern Macroeconomic Policy, The: Sweden and the Great Depression

          By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Lisa Lewis
          By early 1937, a debate over the proper conduct of monetary policy raged in Sweden. Sweden's response to the Great Depression was unique. It had, in particular, embraced a revolutionary goal for monetary policy when it abandoned the gold standard in 1931. View Details
          Keywords: History; Money; Policy; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Sweden
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