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  • Fourth Quarter 2007
  • Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

entirely brick and mortar body coaching business. Several months later when it was time to implement the plan Surette developed, Brady asked Surette to join his team full-time and drive progress forward. Growing the Team Before Peters... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

an apparel purchase. Apparel purchasing decisions are closely linked to individuals' feelings about themselves: their body image and the image they wish to project. Clothing is the "skin" one chooses to wear to project one's... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 30 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

businesses. In addition, it must collaborate with other schools at Harvard, and cultivate a faculty and student body that can react to economic crises like the current one. Key concepts include: At this time of crisis, we must consider... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 09 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry

well-programmed and well-constructed. Despite vast knowledge we have accumulated in medicine and biotechnology, there is very little we know about this complex system.  The exquisite design of human body is what we, as engineers and... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

Regulatory authorities face 2 challenges that need to be addressed forcefully if they are to contain a new source of systemic risk in international finance. First, the increasing migration of complex market activities to supervisory View Details
Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community

By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom
In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Measurement and Metrics; Networks; Rank and Position; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 20 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

entirely brick and mortar body coaching business. Several months later when it was time to implement the plan Surette developed, Brady asked Surette to join his team full-time and drive progress forward. Growing the Team Before Peters... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Five Degrees of Doriot

also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Stuart Wins Award

HBS professor Toby Stuart, an expert in the field of organizational psychology, has won the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. The medal, which includes a $50,000 cash award, is given every two years to one scholar... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Portrait Project

Anne Morriss

with faith. I plan to surprise my body with the amount of laughter it has to sustain, to own my WASPy taste for Chardonnay and racket sports. Clarice, I plan to agree with you: I will not just find hope and possibility. I will find... View Details
  • Profile

Fred Smith

wanted to contribute to HBS in some way," he says. In his first year, he became his section's senator in the HBS Student Association. "The senate is a very intelligent body of high-achieving people," says Fred. "It's... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

UN President Speaks at HBS

Climate change and other major problems, he argued, can only be resolved through international cooperation, with the UN the appropriate body for global collective action. Kerim concluded by saying that rather than eroding national... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability

By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Central Banking; Risk Management
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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Deal Me In

great regimen for business travelers or for everyday conditioning. “People find it empowering knowing they can get a great workout by using nothing more than their own body weight.” View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

the MBA student body is adapting well, with counseling and career search workshops being offered for those who have less experience with job searches. "We have a very independent student body that is used to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Valuing Cross-Border Investments

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module explores how valuation differs in an international context and introduces students to the major issues in cross-border valuations: how to value investments in currencies... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Body of Literature; Risk Management; Projects; Valuation
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  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Crazy Days of Summer

the Boston Herald (August 5, 2011) described as “jumping into a body of water, fully clothed, while striking a lounging pose midair.” “When you get guys together in their spare time, these kinds of stupid things emerge organically,” said... View Details
Keywords: fads; memes
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high school, Safin served as student View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • Web

Alfred D. Chandler Papers | Baker Library

lecture and seminar notes and almost the entire body of his professional correspondence. It is rich in research material gathered during his comparative studies of corporate structure and its development in the United States and other... View Details