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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
that Serafeim organized as part of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Read more about Advancing the Mission Serafeim’s interest in Apple’s approach on circular economic models led to the case... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
scanrail SUMMING UP: Is Modern Monetary Theory a Fancy Term for Today’s Reality? Modern monetary theory (MMT) is “silly thinking” (Andy), “a totally unproven theory” (Alex), a “free lunch” (John), and “questionable economics for certain”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
John Maynard Keynes. The book that made Keynes famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920), is an easy read, a model of concision and argument. Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Starting Up America
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this a perfect time to reassess current programs and adapt them to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
valuation of US$10.7 billion, Bharti purchased from Zain, a Kuwaiti firm, its mobile operations in 16 African nations. “It would have taken us years to achieve Zain’s scale,” Mittal explains. “Furthermore, our business model fit... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
consistent with the aversion seen in some EU 15 countries. Alfaro: Overall, other countries can look to Slovakia as a model of what might happen when a flat tax is adopted, as this example illustrates several aspects. The overall View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
access capital” Historically, this segment of the market has been small compared to the $700 billion in small business bank credit assets. But since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
driving the wealth of nations. It also demonstrates that there has never been a single model for successful or unsuccessful capitalism. To give only one example, business and economic historians have often... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Profile
Ralph Johnson
project was in education; we were given a free hand to design the ideal model school of the future, one focused on entrepreneurship and able to incorporate new technologies into its curriculum. We even changed the teaching training model,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Must-have features of yesterday are today's can-live-withouts. Trusted brands are especially valued and they can still launch new products successfully, but interest in new brands and new categories fades. Conspicuous consumption becomes less prevalent. 2. Focus on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the course of economic theory and financial practice. With the option pricing model firmly in place, Merton's research as a member of the Harvard Business School faculty continues to evolve as he turns his... View Details
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Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange “ Much has been written about the ramified effects of the option-pricing model on the world’s financial system. But, like other scientists, we had no... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the rise, the View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
by Postmates couriers). Each marketplace-for-services company develops its own combination of these dimensions of control, with many possible permutations. While the right combination—the model creating the most value for company and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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The Permanent Exhibit - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Introduction Prelude to the Option Pricing Model The Formula The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Selected... View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the course of economic theory and financial practice. With the option pricing model firmly in place, Merton's research as a member of the Harvard Business School faculty continues to evolve as he turns his... View Details