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  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Video

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, discusses the influence her father, who founded Hédi Bouchamaoui & Sons, a family business focused on oil and gas exploration, had on her... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Video

Marie Curie: A Pioneer in Science

  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • 19 Mar 2010
  • News

Professor Robert C. Merton receives the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London

  • July 2021
  • Article

Discovering Auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

By: Alex Teytelboym, Shengwu Li, Scott Duke Kominers, Mohammad Akbarpour and Piotr Dworczak
The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” In this survey article, we review the contributions of the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Auctions; Theory; Design
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  • 08 Jan 2009
  • News

Harvard Professor Robert C. Merton to Receive MIT’s Muh Award

  • 17 Oct 2018
  • News

A scholar examines the rewards and shortcomings of skilled immigration in the United States

  • 20 Apr 2018
  • News

Professor Rebecca Henderson Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

  • Research Summary

Game Theory for Business Strategy

Game theory--the mathematical study of strategic interactions--came of age, in a sense, when three of the field's pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. Yet despite the development of the theory and the widespread use of game-theoretic jargon in... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

    2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 13 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

    case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-401 The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize Nobel... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • July 2024
    • Module Note

    The Scope of the Corporation

    By: David J. Collis
    Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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    • 15 Oct 2016
    • News

    Political dysfunction, economic progress and James Buchanan

    • 02 Dec 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Fabian Waldinger, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, Department of Economics

    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

      Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    By: William R. Kerr
    High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration
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    • 2017
    • Chapter

    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    By: William R. Kerr
    High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Diaspora; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Immigration; United States
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