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- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Given the nature of some unusually thoughtful responses, there was no consensus on the question of whether Walmart has reached its full potential. Comments raised even more interesting questions surrounding the dynamic of relationships... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
prime minister’s cabinet before coming to HBS. “Giving shouldn’t be about age,” Popa insists. “It should be about capability and what really matters.” His fellowship gift—to support MBA students with a strong interest in genomic research,... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Theorem." Journal of Financial Economics 5, no. 3 (November 1977): 241-249. Merton, Robert C. "On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates." Journal of Finance 29, no. 2 (May... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
interest deduction is widely disliked by tax analysts, but it has survived as a policy. Does this suggest that the policy process is broken or that tax analysts are missing something? My intuition often leans toward the latter, and not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
stores, schools, and other food-handling establishments, checking whether they adhere to public health regulations. The rules are strict. Food businesses where serious violations are found must clean up their acts quickly or risk being... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
can predict the rate of readmission on the front end, you can put extra resources against that patient to minimize the risk of readmission," Quelch says. “The consumer's time is being eaten up... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 04 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni
focus my internship interests and inform my search strategy.” For example, Adam realized that as a career switcher he risked not having the specific industry expertise that would allow him to truly have an... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
ownership. A tax subsidy like the mortgage interest deduction, which reduces the amount of money available to the federal government by $100 billion a year, is understandably at risk today because of our... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
argued. On the one hand it pays to be green; it is in a company's best interests to be environmentally proactive. On the other there's no need to be green; after all, we have governments to provide these essential public services. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
current total return on all social security contributions made to the U.S. government is the equivalent of about 2 percent in benefits returned to individuals. By diverting 25 percent of one's contributions to investments that could yield even as little as 5 percent,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
price-based competition, an engineering company identified a market segment built on partnering with the customer, outsourcing and risk sharing. Its challenge was to migrate its customer base in this direction. The company's... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta
to a global partner. So what did my FGI look like? I went to Jakarta, Indonesia, was partnered with a great group of people, and assigned to an interesting problem for a non-profit called the Tanoto Foundation. We were given the task to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
typical of others that have found “a strong correlation between gender diversity and a company’s bottom line.” Companies in the top quartile of gender diversity worldwide had a high likelihood of outperforming bottom-quartile industry peers in both earnings before... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
the interests of select stakeholders. By giving managers and entrepreneurs a "second bite at the apple" if they take reasonable risks that turn our poorly, Chapter 11 also encourages View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
to be.” Munger, Mandelli, and Herbert agree that, while the topic of the movie interested them, that alone wasn’t enough for them to invest. Even though they are all experts when it comes to stocks and bonds, in order to determine if... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
their involvement in the search for climate change solutions. In Episode 10 of Climate Stories, HBS alumna, Amanda Li (MBA 2018), describes her efforts to drive innovation at the intersection of fintech and climate change. “We are not going to meet our climate goals at... View Details