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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
their own assessments of his contributions to the field. Andre F. Perold, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the School's Finance unit, noted, "Bob has pioneered the use of sophisticated stochastic calculus for pricing financial View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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New Releases
teachings of Muhammad prohibit Muslims from accepting or charging interest. As oil prices and the individual incomes of many Muslims in the Middle East skyrocketed in the 1970s, so too did the need for financial instruments that allowed...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of being wrong, lack of a sense of...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
promoting management education in Germany. He was instrumental in founding the University of Koblenz/Vallendar for Executive Management - the first such private institution in Germany - and coauthored various business texts, including...
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- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
power plant, she ultimately rose to be president of Michigan Gas Utilities Corporation and Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation, within the Integrys Energy Group. “I had several instrumental leaders who believed in me, who saw my...
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Margie Kelley
- 18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
great pipeline of diverse talent is a big part of that.” Comer says he’s excited to support Morris Brown’s resurgence with this partnership, “particularly given how instrumental the college was in my personal development as a business...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
moment Kremer fell ill, HBS was there. Classmates Guy Yamen, Nate Boaz and Andrea Marano were instrumental in helping launch the organization. Professor Jan Hammond, his section adviser, made the calls that got him an appointment with Dr....
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
and the case of the Challenger disaster. The first one, because we’re still working on finding the ‘job’ that VR does for the majority of people today, and this framework has been instrumental in framing our development and messaging for...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
a dirty product that was a consequence of deregulation. Our government decided at some point it was OK to sell instruments that were known to be dangerous. “You can’t go anywhere in America and buy a toaster that has a one in five chance...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation by Mark Nation (MBA 2001) (Greenleaf Book Group Press) In this self-help parable, Nation tells the...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
Hofmeyr (43rd PMD), and Peter G. Wrighton (64th AMP) - were key members of the Consultative Business Movement, formed by the business community in the 1980s to facilitate the transition process. "Those individuals were instrumental in...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Inclusion. In all of our efforts around diversity and inclusion, we regularly solicit input from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (DEI), a group that student leaders of five marginalized communities in the MBA Program created three years ago. The DEI...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
particular talent that you wish you had? I wish I had an ear for foreign languages. And I’m not a very good dancer. What was your first job? In college I was a warehouseman at Ford. I would push a cart around and collect instrument panels...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
worked.” “It’s not a quick fix,” adds Holmes. There are deep repairs still necessary, she notes, both cultural and environmental. That work continues. “But it is enormously helpful to have this kind of blueprint.” The protections hammered out in the Great Bear...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
over the years. The importance of women as consumers, in particular, has led to a long-standing critique of the industry as an instrument for the oppression of women by men (and their corporations). Feminist writers have regularly blamed...
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