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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

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    enforcement agency. Its official fact sheet read, “The primary function of the FBI is law enforcement.” Today, the fact sheet reads “national security.” LESSONS ABOUT THE INTERPLAY OF DESIGN AND IDENTITY IN TIMES OF RADICAL CHANGE At each... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details
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    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

    in the Impact Investing Trek. Organized by student clubs, treks provide HBS students an opportunity to visit companies around the world as they explore industries and functional areas of interest. Students who visit the Bridges offices in... View Details
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    Hiring International Students

    professional business function and employers do not need to interact with the US government to secure work authorization. There is no cost to employers and this is the first step to ensuring a smooth transition to full-time worker. It is... View Details
    • January 1987
    • Article

    Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

    By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
    When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information
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    • 2023
    • Article

    Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

    By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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    • 26 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

    Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous

    By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay
    How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details
    Keywords: Public Opinion; Communication; Perception; Reputation
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    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    functions impacted by a single issue, can be used as needed to facilitate rapid decisions. Many companies measure strategy execution with KPIs assessed annually or maybe quarterly. In times of crisis, consider assessing more frequently.... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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    Research Resources - Doctoral

    include, but are not limited to data sourcing and purchasing, locating data, finding articles, managing citations, creating charts and graphs for papers or presentations, utilizing Baker Library’s databases, diving deeply into Excel’s View Details
    • 10 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

    it’s important to use these different lenses to fully embrace all the learnings that came from your journey. What specific skills have you developed or mastered? Consider all functions within an organization—financial, sales, product,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
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    Bloomberg: short interest by company

    How can I find short interest by company in Bloomberg? Type company ticker, hit EQUITY key, type SI and then hit GO for basic short interest data; e.g., GOOG US [EQUITY] SI [GO] For graphical data displays, use PgUp and PgDn to view tabular data. Short interest data is... View Details
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Breaking the Code of Change

    reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
    • January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
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    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    Edmondson, who chairs the Doctoral Programs and teaches in the Technology and Operations Management unit. "To cite one example, former HBS doctoral student Jim Detert and I interviewed some 200 people of all ranks and functions in a... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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    About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    September 2010. Nancy is the point person for all center scheduling and direct service coordinating; she oversees the administrative functions for the center, and assists with project work. Nancy's previous careers include theatrical... View Details
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    YouTube’s $28.8 billion. It will probably not be able to command that kind of revenue without going outside its present niche. “TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its billion users to add... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Drop Everything, Read This

    The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    function and can be used to assess, evaluate, and strategize your organization's financial health. A finance course will teach you the key levers that drive your company's performance and cover topics such as cash flow , value creation ,... View Details