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- December 1979
- Article
Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms
By: John S. Hammond and John W. Pratt
Keywords: Performance Evaluation
Hammond, John S., and John W. Pratt. "Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms." Journal of Finance 34, no. 5 (December 1979): 1231–1242.
- January 1971 (Revised March 1992)
- Case
Rubicon Rubber Co.
By: John W. Pratt
Keywords: Rubber Industry
Pratt, John W. "Rubicon Rubber Co." Harvard Business School Case 171-330, January 1971. (Revised March 1992.)
- December 2000
- Article
Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier
By: John W. Pratt
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
Pratt, John W. "Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier." Management Science 46, no. 12 (December 2000): 1545–1553. (Japanese version, translated by Fumiko Seo, in Modeling and Decision Making in Ambiguous Environments, Fumiko Seo and Takao Fukuchi, eds., 2002 (Kyoto U. Press).)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game
By: John Hillas, Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances of the play of the game; these... View Details
Hillas, John, Elon Kohlberg, and John W. Pratt. "Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-005, July 2007.
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
Applied Sciences, are involved in sustainability. The Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), led by Michael W. Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, is... View Details
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Barboza Guzman, Laurence D. Higgins, John G. Meara, Erin Padden, Apurva S. Shah, Peter Waters, Marco Weidemeier, Sam Wertheimer, and Thomas W. Feeley This article describes early time-driven activity-based... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
Thompson, who was joined by Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith and CEOs Gerald Greenwald of United Airlines, John E. Pepper of Procter & Gamble, and Raymond W. Smith of Bell Atlantic. "Somebody To Tell Me... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott (MBA ’87) (Harper Business) 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W. Preis (MBA ’72) and Matthew Frederick (Grand Central... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. And eBay does it 24/7.” Meg... View Details
- 03 Apr 2015
- News
Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Vision for the 21st Century” events in Dallas and Houston as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas was the setting on March 30 for an evening presentation and reception,... View Details
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Risk . New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Bernstein, Peter L. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street . New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 1992. Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan, and Andrew View Details
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2009. Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt, ed. The Negro in Business: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University, Together with the Proceedings of the Fourth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman (MPA/MBA ’10), Daniel Gulati (MBA ’11), and W. Oliver Segovia (MBA ’10) (Harvard Business Review Press) Recent Harvard MBAs share personal stories about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
risk? Just because you would gladly pay a higher capital gains rate doesn’t mean others would. Brian W. Keane (MBA 1986) Potomac, MD Both Sides Now LaMagna has fallen into the trap set by those who believe “fairness” runs only in one... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
campaign that argues that the United States must immediately get into wind and solar in a big way (http://pickensplan.com). Ironically, it was Pickens who helped bankroll the Swift Boat ads that in 2004 sank wind-surfing presidential candidate View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Ethics, Economics, and Organizations Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine Service Management Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Gary W. Loveman Entrepreneurship Professors Teresa M. Amabile and Howard H.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- August 1996
- Article
Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth
By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
Pratt, John W., and Richard Zeckhauser. "Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth." Journal of Political Economy 104 (August 1996): 747–763.
- Article
A New Interpretation of the F Statistic
By: John W. Pratt and Robert Schlaifer
Pratt, John W., and Robert Schlaifer. "A New Interpretation of the F Statistic." American Statistician 52, no. 2 (May 1998): 141–143.
- 1991
- Book
Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business
By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Organizational Structure
Pratt, John W. and Richard Zeckhauser, eds. Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business. Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
The Canadian flag flew over "Baker beach" under a cloudless, deep blue sky on the afternoon of April 7 for the official dedication of a new Executive Education facility named for the School's seventh Dean, John H. McArthur. Friends and... View Details