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  • March 1982 (Revised September 1985)
  • Case

Sealed Air Corporation

By: Robert J. Dolan
Market leadership and technological innovation have marked Sealed Air's participation in the U.S. protective packaging market. Several small regional producers have introduced products which are less effective than Sealed Air's but similar in appearance and cheaper.... View Details
Keywords: Product Marketing; Product; Technological Innovation; Supply and Industry; Competitive Advantage; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • January 1982
  • Article

The Returns and Risk of Alternative Put Option Portfolio Investment Strategies

By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Strategy
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  • Article

Value of Information with Sequential Futures Markets

By: Jerry R. Green
The effects of an improvement in information on the efficiency of risk-bearing are studied under various systems of incomplete markets. With sequential futures markets for uncontingent delivery, the welfare effects are indeterminate in sign, except under special... View Details
Keywords: Information; Financial Markets; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 1980 (Revised April 1994)
  • Case

New Balance Athletic Shoes

By: Kim B. Clark
Faced with growth exceeding 100% per year, James Davis, president of New Balance, must decide how to meet the need for additional capacity. Several factors contribute to a climate of extreme uncertainty. Several options are considered, ranging from a second shift to... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Information; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Performance Capacity; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Republic of Ireland
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  • Article

The Impact of Listed Options on the Underlying Shares

By: Samuel Hayes and Michael Tennenbaum
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  • April 1978
  • Article

The Returns and Risk of Alternative Call Option Portfolio Investment Strategies

By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Strategy
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  • 1977
  • Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • June 1977
  • Article

An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Financing and Loans; Price; Theory
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  • May 1976
  • Article

The Impact on Option Pricing of Specification Error in the Underlying Stock Price Returns

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Price; Stocks
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  • January–February 1976
  • Article

Option Pricing When Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Price; Stocks; Assets
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  • November 1975 (Revised October 1976)
  • Case

Cross River Products

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes production task of meeting peak seasonal demands in a light manufacturing plant. Information is provided for evaluating the options of overtime, second shift, second production line, and inventory buildup. View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Information; Labor; Demand and Consumers; Production; Supply Chain
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  • March 1973
  • Article

The Relationship between Put and Call Option Prices: Comment

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Price; Stocks
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  • spring 1973
  • Article

Theory of Rational Option Pricing

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Theory; Price
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  • 1968
  • Mimeo

Restrictions on Rational Option Pricing: A Set of Arbitrage Conditions

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Stock Options; Valuation; Trade
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Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Weiling Liu
95% of long-term municipal bonds have callable features, and yet we find new evidence of a substantial fraction of local governments exercising these valuable options sub-optimally, with significant delays – resulting in sizable losses. Using data from 2001 to 2019, we... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Financing and Loans
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Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Laura Alfaro
We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve... View Details
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Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum

By: Feng Zhu
 

Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details

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Finance II (MBA Required Curriculum)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

This course builds on the foundation developed in Finance I, focusing on three sets of managerial decisions:

  • How to evaluate complex investments.
  • How to set and execute financial policies within a firm.
  • How to integrate... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • Research Summary

Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

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