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Finance - Faculty & Research
households. We find that even at actuarially fair premiums, households’ willingness to pay is below expected losses, and demand remains elastic—results that are inconsistent with the textbook models of insurance demand. Financial... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
vulnerable households. We find that even at actuarially fair premiums, households’ willingness to pay is below expected losses, and demand remains elastic—results that are inconsistent with the textbook models of insurance demand.... View Details
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
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
institutions. We asked Harvard Business School faculty who study banks: What does the failure of SVB say about the current state of the banking industry? Here’s what they said. Victoria Ivashina: Banks are ‘fundamentally fragile.’ Much has been said already about the... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
largest elective courses at Harvard Business School. (The course materials are collected in Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook , now in its fifth edition, and the textbook Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
of eight), and hired basketball great Michael Jordan as a spokesperson. It used its leverage with supermarkets to win premium display space and squeezed costs out of the supply chain. Textbook actions produced View Details
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, the book became a standard textbook in business schools. Lehman Brothers also issued bonds for public utilities and branched into the business of advising on mergers and acquisitions. Within a generation, the firm... View Details
- 20 May 2024
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts
walks of life,” said Roberts. “HBS was an opportunity to learn textbook business, meet people from all over the world and hear about their work and life, what motivates them, what they’re passionate about, what they see around them that... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
Indeed, some 30 years after the day Reiss first dropped in on Howard Stevenson, his "living example" has become a textbook case, a classic account of entrepreneurship in action. View Details
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
not were completely inaccurate. And yet I clung to these preconceptions; at least they were better than taunts of bad driving, accusations of cat eating, and endless emasculation. Paired with the fact that there was virtually no Asian American history in our View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
standardized test writers, textbook publishers, and students. But lost in these debates is a much more fundamental question: Is history just a series of dates and events? While the debate rages over what to teach students about American... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Why Get an MBA?
element of an MBA is whether you learn true, hard skills. How can you teach accounting and finance through the case method? A mentor of mine put it best when he said “HBS will teach you how to think about accounting as a CEO.” Don’t worry, there are plenty of View Details
- Portrait Project
Michi Ferreol
first summer I spent teaching, at a small public school in Manila called Oranbo Elementary School. I was 16. More than ten years later, I still think about Harold, about that humid classroom where 60 children shared 20 textbooks and 15... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
was mostly on the bench. I took advantage of this time to take coding classes and read textbooks about data analytics, and before long had a strong technical skillset which was invaluable to the team. During that time, I also built strong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
quantum gravity. Overall, the author introduces complex concepts of quantum mechanics in an accessible and fun-to-read style while laying the groundwork for mastering an advanced level of treatment in standard quantum mechanics textbooks... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2019–2021. 2019 David J. Collis : Recognized as one of the Top One Hundred Most Influential Textbook Authors by the Academy of Management Learning and Education in... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
brought two innovations to the segment. First they tossed out the textbook recipe to bring beer below the 0.5 percent ABV threshold for NA. Believing that those traditional techniques can also wipe out the aromatics and heady... View Details
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Under his leadership, McGraw became the largest publisher of trade magazines and newsletters in the United States, accounting for 30% of its sales. In addition, McGraw-Hill published 20,000 different books a year, ranking as the largest publisher of View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
essential values: customer sovereignty, innovation, excellence, integrity, people orientation, and social responsibility. "It's not really a textbook leadership style," says Natarajan, who treats staff like extended family. "We have... View Details