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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
improves how users visualize information, receive and follow instructions, and interact with products. AccuVein, for instance, uses AR technology that converts the heat signature of a patient’s veins into an image superimposed on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
at the Switch? Frank V. Cespedes and Diane BadameHarvard Business School Case 913-505 PV Technologies, Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
each splintered into contending factions, a successful stepping stone strategy requires converting enough "persuadable skeptics" on each side to forge a "winning coalition" on behalf of the next nuclear deal. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
was founded to serve a vital but narrow function in maintaining the global foreign exchange system and thus enabling international trade. This note gives an overview of the IMF's evolution by describing key phases in its history,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
419-039 Note on Managing Workforce Reductions Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
the Xerox business plans had proposed building document-management systems for mainframe computers rather than for networked personal computers (which were rapidly replacing mainframes at many organizations). With the help of the XTV officials, Shao and Newton led an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cases and notes on entrepreneurial ventures since his arrival at the School in 1980. But all along, that had been a solo effort, and as a result, he had nowhere near enough material for a full-credit course. So he decided to offer a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
the Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 chair. “In reality, there’s often an inverse correlation between those two things. Having said that, if you look at the quality of ideas that have converted into real businesses over the past... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
more—possibly just a little bit at first—and firms might decide to expand production as well, and back and forth, driving a recovery in output and employment. In this way, the downward spiral of contracting consumption and business activity could be View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
off?" Comparing notes across sectors we identified two factors that were not a surprise to any of us—accelerating market demand and well managed federal support for fundamental research. But the third factor—the thing that appears to have... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
2 (spring 1965): 13-31. * Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS . The Formula Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "Capital Market Equilibrium and the Pricing of Corporate Liabilities." Financial Note No. 16C... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
about butts in seats—it’s about helping people learn and make progress in life. That experience set me on a trajectory to convert a passion for education into my career. Now I am leading a transformation at the world’s largest education... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Non-fiction The Most Important Things I Know: 55 Handwritten Ideas from People Who Changed the World by Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) Lorne Adrain A best-of collection drawn from Adrain’s previous books, this edition contains notes from Buzz... View Details