United Nations Security Council - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular, sales-related experience; when both... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble those of economic catastrophe bonds-bonds that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

2011) Abstract In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Econometrie , Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, vol. XI, Paris, (1953): 41-47. Baldwin, Carliss. "Pricing Convertible Preferred Stock According to the Rational Option Pricing Theory." B.S. thesis,... View Details

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Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

and to try to protect children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. These initiatives form the cornerstone of UNICEF, founded by the UN in 1946 as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

nationality or which culture,” says Natarajan. “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” he concedes. “When David Garvin first presented the case and talked about how we run a company through love, the students said, ‘Oh, my god, are... View Details

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial crisis, small businesses were... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017

with management practice and research across a variety of fields, to provide more exposure to MBA teaching, and to strengthen relationships between students and program faculty. SEP 2016 Problems Unsolved & A Nation Divided Michael... View Details

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

world (South Korea: 2 percent vs. world: 7 percent). Even taking into account the country’s population, South Korea’s number of cases per capita is substantially lower than those of other countries. The United States (with more than 1.7... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and illegal View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

months that included marrying Sarah Abugre, a teacher he met in Ghana; moving with her to the United States; and settling in at Soldiers Field. While pursuing concurrent MBA and MPA degrees at HBS and the Kennedy School, Murphy was... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details