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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize for... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised January 1995)
- Case
Wheeling and Dealing: The Zirconia GT
By: Howard Raiffa, James K. Sebenius, Craig Best and Scot Melland
A personal negotiation episode in purchasing a car is presented. Tactics and strategies commonly encountered by car buyers and car salespeople are illustrated. View Details
Raiffa, Howard, James K. Sebenius, Craig Best, and Scot Melland. "Wheeling and Dealing: The Zirconia GT." Harvard Business School Case 895-013, November 1994. (Revised January 1995.)
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
In fall 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School incorporated a two-week module on Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Super power into the MPP core curriculum. The school created this module in response to calls by the... View Details
- Web
The Gift of Global Talent
continues to grow, the three core approaches taken by corporations so far offer a playbook for companies that find themselves outside the action in today’s concentrated innovation geography. How can companies most effectively harness the... View Details
- Web
1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been regarded as a successful chapter in financial regulation. These efforts bear the stamp of Harvard Professor of Law James... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
his own happiness by facilitating two years of long-distance. James has never been anything less than thoroughly supportive, and I can only aspire to be as thoughtful and considerate of others as he is. I... View Details
- Research Summary
Nonprofits and the Net
By: James E. Austin
This research examined the strategic use of the internet by existing nonprofit organizations and the creation of new internet based organizations that are operating in the social sector, particularly in the philanthropic segment. Resulting publications: 'The... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- August 1998 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Harbus Foundation, The
By: James E. Austin and Linda Carrigan
Describes the challenges faced by a group of HBS students as they create a foundation. Given surplus funds generated by the student-run newspaper, The Harbus leadership decides to find a meaningful use for the excess cash. Profiles both the entrepreneurial process used... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Investment Portfolio; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
Austin, James E., and Linda Carrigan. "Harbus Foundation, The." Harvard Business School Case 399-031, August 1998. (Revised October 2002.)
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HBS - The year in Review
transformation and seismic market shifts. Building RENAMED for James I. Cash In September 2020, Harvard Business School announced it would honor James I. Cash, the James E.... View Details
- April 2011
- Article
What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?
What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton... View Details
Keywords: Learning; International Relations; History; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution
Sebenius, James K. "What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?" Negotiation Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2011).
- 15 Dec 2020
- Panel Discussion
Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects
By: Maya Zinshstein, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil and James K. Sebenius
Sponsored by Harvard's Program on Negotiation, I moderated and contributed to a discussion of the film "Til Kingdom Come" among the film's director, producer, and a renowned scholar. View Details
Zinshstein, Maya, Abraham Troen, Gregory Khalil, and James K. Sebenius. "Politics and Peace? Evangelicals and U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Prospects." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, December 15, 2020.
- March 2011
- Case
Calveta Dining Services, Inc.: A Recipe for Growth?
By: James L. Heskett and Patricia Girardi
Calveta Dining Services contracts with senior living facilities (SLFs) for the management of food service to residents. Created by Antonio Calveta and built on his passion for food and traditional family values, the firm had enjoyed three decades of strong growth when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Vision; Employee Empowerment; Service Management; Family Businesses; Growth Strategy; Family Business; Expansion; Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Heskett, James L., and Patricia Girardi. "Calveta Dining Services, Inc.: A Recipe for Growth?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-261, March 2011.
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details
Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 9, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 60–79. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- May 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
"To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland
By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran
Examines the strategies and tactics used by U.S. negotiator George Mitchell during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy; Northern Ireland
Sebenius, James K., and Daniel F. Curran. "To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland. Harvard Business School Case 801-393, May 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
level-setting on terminology and definitions; major policy drivers and incentives in the US; and examples of EJ being applied by businesses, including areas where policy has resulted in action by businesses,... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details