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Carol Lauson
Carol Lauson's father owned his own construction company, an enterprise, she says, "that didn't necessarily pique my interest in business, but gave me an early exposure to it." As she got older, awareness turned into more direct action, beginning with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
prices.) "Or how," she continues, "do we apply to Asia - which today has significant macroeconomic issues to resolve - what we learned in Latin America in the 1980s when that region went through its economic crisis?" For transnational... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
specializing in economic issues, has examined the comparative productivity of nations and completed numerous country studies. Gupta acknowledges that he himself was anything but worldly when he received his... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Economic Forum, 2009 Abstract Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic development specialists also attest to the importance of health care in... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Editor's note: Many economic regulators, influenced by the work of Mancur Olson, maintain the notion that consumers hold little sway over big-industry concerns. They argue that diffuse interests of the "little guys" lack the strength and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), and competition will shift from local in nature to regional... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
in applications, although just how many students shy away from applying depends largely on how widely the incident is reported in the media. The June research paper The Impact of Campus Scandals on College Applications shows that a college with a scandal splashed... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806138 PublicationsBusiness Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Authors:Kash Rangan, John Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
seen it all including Banco Nacional de Mexico's Agustín Legorreta (his bank was nationalized twice); Turkey's Güler Sabanci, the first woman in her family to run its $14 billion conglomerate and one of the globe's top business leaders;... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
well across many market cycles, and that RLBOs by larger private equity groups have done particularly well. Thinking About Private Equity Lerner is planning a conference under the aegis of the National Bureau of View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
their inspiring stories. Chidalu Onyenso: Empowering small business owners’ self-sufficiency Climate change and the energy crisis have disproportionately impacted underdeveloped countries and the most vulnerable populations with them. These View Details
- 27 May 2021
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History’s Future
of AlUla, it is AlMadani’s responsibility to chart a future for the historic region, a plan that will include archeological exploration, ecological conservation, and economic development—all with a commitment to inclusivity. The old city... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
noncompetitive technology development while contributing to national economic growth and global competitiveness. In Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D; Consortia, Professor Emeritus... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Prelude to the Option Pricing Model Bachelier, Louis. " Théorie de la Spéculation. " Annales Science de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure , No.1018. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to View Details