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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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Risk Management as a Function of Government

By: David A. Moss
Professor Moss's academic work in this area explores how and why governments manage private-sector risks. Based on historical and institutional research, he argues that risk management constitutes a critical function of government with far-reaching implications. ... View Details
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Distributed Innovation in Open Systems—The Role of Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Distributed innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. As education levels rise and communication costs fall, more people have the means and motivation to innovate. Supply chains now stretch around the world as firms outsource... View Details
  • May 2006 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

General Electric's 20th Century CEOs (Abridged)

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony J. Mayo and Mark Benson
General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style
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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
  • Web

Employment | Harvard Business School

whose mission-driven work provides real value and impact. Faculty Positions Join a culturally diverse full-time intellectual community that draws on their research to educate leaders who make a difference in the world and help shape the... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

researchers design an experiment among themselves, only going to the field when they're ready to conduct the experiment on members of the community. In this case, though, the academics View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

  Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul
  • Research Summary

Overview

Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from unregulated suppliers. Despite their widespread... View Details
Keywords: Audit Quality; Remote Work; Outsourcing; Econometric Analysis; Switching Costs; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Retail Industry; Service Industry
  • Program

Finance for Senior Executives

your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Executives from a variety of functional areas, including operations, marketing, information technology, human resources, research and development, legal affairs, and... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

Girls Arise, an innovative negotiation skills training program designed specifically to help Sub-Saharan African women communicate effectively in high-pressure situations with complex power dynamics. “It is, in many ways, a typical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
  • Research Summary

 

Fabrizio Ferri's research focuses on a number of corporate governance issues, with particular emphasis on executive compensation and shareholder activism. His dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of firms' decision to reprice... View Details

  • July 2020
  • Case

Mortgage Backed Securities and the Covid-19 Pandemic

By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Dean Xu
In April 2020, global financial markets were still reeling as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the world. Global equity markets had initially fallen by 30% in response to the pandemic, and high-yield credit markets had dropped by nearly 20%. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Mortgage-backed Securities; Health Pandemics; Financial Markets; Assets; Resource Allocation; Financial Instruments; Decision Making
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Tuition & Financial Support - Doctoral

(THI) of less than $120,000, the Provide Fellowship is designed to meet your needs. It offers financial assistance based on the number of dependents and your THI. Students apply annually and awards are disbursed in two payments, providing... View Details
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • November – December 2011
  • Article

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

By: Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and architectures and... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Design; Cost; Communication; Competition; Economy; Research; Policy; Practice
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  • 05 Jul 2023
  • HBS Case

What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

based on their past experience ... and then the context shifts, and they try to apply the same recipe, and it fails.” The analysis stems from one of Raffaelli’s core research interests: the qualities of leaders who successfully reinvent... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

customers? A: The final chapter of my book explores how this can be done. Essentially, I show how some companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped them with tools to View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
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Program Requirements - Doctoral

Business Economics Program Requirements Each candidate’s program of study will be developed in consultation with the faculty chair of the Policy and Admissions Committee. The normal program is outlined below. Advising The Policy and Admissions Committee View Details