Publications

29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

PublicationsAnnual Review of Financial Economics Editors:Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 1. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Book... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 1, 2002
Article

Options Should be Reflected in the Bottom Line

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Profit

September 2015
Article

Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

By: Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein and Robert W. Vishny

We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid... View Details

Keywords: Shadow Banking; Safe Money-like Claims; Commercial Banking

August 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Background Note

A Note on Water

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim and Sarah E. Farrell

This note provides background on the complex issues regarding the supply and consumption of water and how this natural resource is at increasing risk, resulting in significant economic, political and environmental issues. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

multiple departments and engages in continuous care management throughout the often protracted transplant care cycle. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711410-PDF-ENG Ganeden Biotech, Inc. Robert View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Lehman Brothers reduced their lending to a greater extent. Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me Authors:Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow Publication:Chap. 1 in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Authors:Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller and smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20sommers.pdf Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and PowerPoint Slides) Authors: Michael... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

1976
Book

How to Use International Capital Markets: A Guide to Europe and the Middle East

By: Sidney M. Robbins, Robert B. Stobaugh, William Gregor and John C. Kirby

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Capital Markets; Europe; Middle East

December 26, 2014
Article

Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Yudit C. Krosner and Nirvan Mukerji

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January 2012 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim and Sarah E. Farrell

Keywords: Markets; Opportunities; Technology

2006
Book

The Derivatives Sourcebook

By: Terence Lim, Andrew W. Lo, Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes

Keywords: Books

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2004
Book

Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge

By: Robert H. Hayes, Gary P. Pisano, David M. Upton and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Operations; Strategy; Competitive Advantage

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12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

blend the two models? Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/do-you-really-want-to-be-an-ebay/ar/1 Prize-based Contests Can Provide Solutions to Computational Biology Problems Authors:Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

Economics Payout Policy By: Farre-Mensa, Joan, Roni Michaely, and Martin C. Schmalz Abstract—We survey the literature on payout policy, with a particular emphasis on developments in the last two decades. Of the traditional motives of why... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-survived/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review The Crisis in Retirement Planning By: Merton, Robert View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 1997
Background Note

Savings and Loans and the Mortgage Markets

By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel

Provides a brief overview of the history of the savings and loans, the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and the creation of the mortgage markets in the United States. Also explains briefly the most common types of mortgage-backed securities available. View Details

Keywords: History; Debt Securities; Markets; Mortgages; United States