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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
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
takeover of Unilever by 3G Capital / Kraft Heinz. Over our 80-minute case, we discuss the strategies of Unilever (long-term value creation with sustainability at the center) and 3G / Kraft Heinz (steep budget cuts and higher operating... View Details
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
regulation has aimed to increase competition among raters ever since the Enron debacle. "As researchers we feared that increased competition may have detrimental effects in this setting." In our e-mail Q&A, Becker discusses the View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
embodiment of such values became a beacon of hope, fortifying my spirit and endowing me with the strength to persevere day by day. Several more years passed before I relocated to Boston for employment, following the completion of my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
This led a flood of new investors, from part-time novices to deep-pocketed hedge funds, to get into the game, pushing the sector to a record-breaking $344 billion in deals in 2021. So when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates in... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
this new environment.” At the outset of the crisis, most restaurants had only two to three weeks of operating reserves and those reserves were quickly exhausted. With no end date in sight of mandatory... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
School to the endowment reserve. The School budgets the use of endowment distributions to support operations in accordance with the donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Unrestricted Reserves (in millions) 145 FY17 118 FY18 129... View Details
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
into “a learning community with shared values and common goals." In the classroom, Christensen was a true artist, like the conductor of a symphony orchestra, as he posed questions to students, listened carefully to their replies, and then... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
question. What follows are six ways to make your threats more credible in negotiation. 1. Increase your costs of not following through on your threat Imagine that you're thinking about bidding to acquire another company that would be of great View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
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HBS - Financials | Financial Highlights
was 33.6 percent, compared with 7.3 percent in fiscal 2020. The value of the School's endowment (after the net impact of distributions from the endowment and the addition of new gifts) increased to $5.3 billion, from $4.1 billion a year... View Details
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
socio-economic status, political and religious affiliation, physical or mental disability, veteran status). This section addresses some potential "blind spots" around student identities and offers advice on discussing sensitive topics that allow students to engage with... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Investing. Dan Levitan (MBA 1983), Maveron, LLC Dan Levitan and his partner Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron in 1998. Levitan and Schultz, who shared the same philosophies about what makes a great company and powerful consumer brand, wanted to bring to fruition their... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. They study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with learning from prices and speculation (buying... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
company’s values and distinct culture. In 2024, the co-founders, Powers (now president and CEO), CFO Barbara Wight, and Vice President of Human Resources Shaun Paluczak took time to reflect on the ESOP. Many employees were still unclear... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
each gift. Unrestricted Reserves (in millions) 145 FY17 118 FY18 129 FY19 174 FY20 211 FY21 Harvard is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its View Details
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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services
command line in your terminal application. In the table below, replace [-RAM] with the amount of memory in GB you are requesting. Available memory values are 5g, 10g, or 20g; the default value if no memory... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
they eschew efforts—even bold, cutting-edge proposals—that are unlikely to generate value for customers, employees, or suppliers. “Companies that raise customer willingness to pay in a distinctive manner attract the very customers that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne