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- 2008
- Working Paper
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
- Article
Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations
By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Agency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship
By: Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca and Eva Boxenbaum
This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional entrepreneurship since Paul DiMaggio introduced the notion in 1988. Based on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level 2, candidates negotiate with domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of... View Details
- Fourth Quarter 2007
- Article
Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk
By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
- 2007
- Text Book
Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of An Economy
By: Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- July 2006
- Article
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan?
By: Li Jin, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- March 2006
- Module Note
Valuing Cross-Border Investments
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module explores how valuation differs in an international context and introduces students to the major issues in cross-border valuations: how to value investments in currencies... View Details
- February 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
PCAOB, The (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
Members of the Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board--a private-sector, nonprofit body created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002--must determine the form and content of a new auditing standard on internal control that will fulfill the requirements of Section 404 of the... View Details
- First Quarter 2005
- Article
The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- 2004
- Working Paper
Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan?
By: Li Jin, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- 2003
- Book
Business History Around the World
By: Franco Amatori and Geoffrey Jones
This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. It provides wide-ranging surveys of the literature in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Japan and the Chinese-speaking world, and examines... View Details
- October 2002 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Codex Alimentarius and Food Labeling
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Codex Alimentarius is a set of international food standards devised by the Codex Commission, a body within the United Nations jointly sponsored by the FAO and WHO. The purpose of the standards is to harmonize global trade in food products and agricultural commodities,... View Details
- October 2002
- Teaching Note
Strategy in Emerging Markets (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Provides an overview of several cases on multinational and local companies (including business groups) operating in settings in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and worldwide. Also provides a conceptual framework for thinking about these cases and links to related academic... View Details
- 2002
- Working Paper
Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure
By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
- December 2001
- Background Note
A Note on Critical Moments in Negotiation
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
This case provides an introduction to the wide field of literature that addresses the presence of critical moments--moments that fundamentally can change the negotiation. Critical moments have been examined by a range of theorists and scientists, from mathematicians to... View Details
- November 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Digital Angel
By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman
Digital Angel is considering the appropriate marketing plan for the launch of its new locator device. The device, a watch and pager worn in combination, provides GPS location information and monitors heart rate and body temperature via body sensors. Parents of young... View Details