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- 06 Feb 2020
- News
HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China
kits. Clement Dai (MBA 2018), along with Peter Zhe Chen (MBA 2018), Carmen Li (MBA 2016), Nyx (Xiyujin) He (HLS 2017), and Kylie Zhang (AB 2018), cofounded the group. The Task Force has connected with Harvard Center Shanghai, HBS alumni... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Gompers, Merton Honored
The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick for their paper “Corporate... View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
be disastrously distracted by seemingly innocuous factors — and how distractions can be avoided. This excerpt from the book's introduction describes how three different sets of forces sidetracked Gino's husband during a recent trip to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Merton Receives Prestigious Award
University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in announcing the appointment. Merton, a... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
auction design or market design and stuff like that, the fact that I wasn’t just a completely nerdy academic I also had some connection by having gone to a business school. And, I can sort of talk to businessmen in their language if I... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tathagata (TAT) Sarkar
1. His name is Richard Feynman. Other than winning the Nobel Prize in physics, he was a bongo drummer, master lock picker, and gifted painter. He was a man of infinite curiosity. 2. He was not Harry Houdini. The magician in a by-lane in... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
thinking of the 50 people who are having fun, look around, you’ll always find 10 people who you will be able to relate to, who can connect to the things you can. So, always look out for those people. That’s my biggest advice. Carmen LI... View Details
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
by HBS’s Middle East and North Africa Research Center, is part of a collection that explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Creating Emerging Markets Interview Pictured: Madame... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
demonstrate how they can be more innovative and successful by fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. Coleman, who previously was managing director of the Nobel Peace Prize–nominated Feminist Majority... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
among the first to develop comprehensive historical data on the incidence and length of financial and banking crises. KEY THEMES Greenwood conducted research into financial bubbles, called “Bubbles for Fama,” with colleagues Andrei Shleifer and Yang You. They sought to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
skills development. Those qualities, known as human capital, provide a better predictor of economic status, says Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers. “A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility,” authored by Kominers, Kevin Murphy and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
understanding of network effects, revenue models, and ecosystem development. Given its founders’ academic pedigrees—Barrera studied with Nobel laureate Oliver Hart; Hurder with Nobel laureate and HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail demonstrates why outstanding companies that focus on competitiveness, listen... View Details
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
summer internship with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, "to look at innovative, sustainable ways to reduce poverty and meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015." A subsequent direct meeting with View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
“wicked problems” will throw off an enormous amount of social and economic value, such as the start of new businesses and advances in fundamental research. The bottom line, says Kao, is that innovation pays. He points to the work of Nobel... View Details