Decision Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral seminar on the Theory of the... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Management Field Studies course enables students to apply midlevel theory to the operational issues of a new enterprise. "Students learn to frame research and analyze difficult questions that entrepreneurs face in the course of starting a... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead

departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

doing. I had no interest, association, or connection to the entertainment industry, nothing—until I met a mentor who took a chance on me.” “When Norman Lear asked me to take over the creative direction of his television shows, it was a View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

Strategy, among other works, and his latest book, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms, will be published this year by Harvard University Press. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Financial... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

special pleas, too. Ehsan-ul Haque of Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences cited an overemphasis on policy-driven studies at Asian institutions. "The immediacy and urgency of decisions [on policy] are so great that we... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

tempted to leave, but then I thought about the fact that I had so much riding on this decision to be here, and there were so many people who supported me. The next day when I arrived on the HBS campus, for a while I didn’t see any blacks... View Details

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