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- June 1977
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An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory." Journal of Banking & Finance 1 (June 1977): 3–11.
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Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases.
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods." Econometrica 45, no. 2 (March 1977): 427–438.
- 1976
- Working Paper
Continuous-Time Portfolio Theory and the Pricing of Contingent Claims
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Continuous-Time Portfolio Theory and the Pricing of Contingent Claims." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 881-76, November 1976.
- January 1976 (Revised June 1984)
- Case
Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)
By: John P. Kotter
In 1969, Megalith centralized its financial and control functions. John Boyd, senior vice president for finance, hired four brilliant young managers to "bring the group out of the stone age." By 1975, this management team had created a near-perfect finance office of...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Compensation and Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives;
Problems and Challenges
Kotter, John P. "Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (A)." Harvard Business School Case 476-107, January 1976. (Revised June 1984.)
- 1976
- Article
The Asymptotic Theory of Stochastic Games
By: Truman F. Bewley and Elon Kohlberg
Bewley, Truman F., and Elon Kohlberg. "The Asymptotic Theory of Stochastic Games." Mathematics of Operations Research, no. 1 (1976): 197 – 208.
- 1975
- Working Paper
Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium
By: Jerry R. Green
When economic agents receive information over time concerning future events it is likely that prices for commodities whose value is influenced by these events will fluctuate in response to changes in the state of knowledge. If such events occur periodically,...
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Green, Jerry R. "Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium." Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper, No. 284, December 1975.
- November 1975
- Article
Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 10 (November 1975): 659–674.
- July 1975
- Article
An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty." Review of Economic Studies 42, no. 3 (July 1975): 375–393. (Chapter 17 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- 1975
- Article
Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior." Sociological Inquiry 45, nos. 2-3 (1975). (Also in Another Voice, edited by M. Millman and R.M. Kanter. N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor, 1975; Reprintings include: The Management of Libraries: Basic Readings, edited by B.P. Lynch. Neil Schuman, 1985; The Sociology of Organizations: Basic Studies, edited by O. Grusky and G.A. Miller (Rev. ed.) N.Y.: Free Press, 1980;.)
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The Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting Process
By: Jerry R. Green
The core is the set of all unblocked allocations. Implicit in this definition is the idea that if an allocation is proposed which could be blocked, some coalition will form and issue a counterproposal which it can enforce. A process of successive counterproposals based...
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Green, Jerry R. "The Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting Process." Econometrica 42, no. 1 (January 1974): 21–34.
- May 1973
- Book Review
Book Review of Studies in the Theory of Capital Markets, edited by M.C. Jensen
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Book Review of Studies in the Theory of Capital Markets, edited by M.C. Jensen." Journal of Money, Credit & Banking 5, no. 2 (May 1973): 729–730.
- spring 1973
- Article
Theory of Rational Option Pricing
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Theory of Rational Option Pricing." Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 4, no. 1 (spring 1973): 141–183. (Chapter 8 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
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The Efficacy of a Comprehensive Health Project: An Empirical Analysis
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Lester Lave and Samuel Leinhardt
Kaplan, Robert S., Lester Lave, and Samuel Leinhardt. "The Efficacy of a Comprehensive Health Project: An Empirical Analysis." American Journal of Public Health 62, no. 7 (July 1972): 924–930.
- December 1971 (Revised December 1994)
- Background Note
Capital Structure Decision: Underlying Theory
Demonstrates hypothetically and numerically the share price valuation impact of changes in a firm's capital structure.
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Capital Structure Decision: Underlying Theory." Harvard Business School Background Note 272-096, December 1971. (Revised December 1994.)
- 1969
- Other Unpublished Work
An Empirical Investigation of the Samuelson Rational Warrant Pricing Theory
By: Robert C. Merton
- Research Summary
By: Boris Groysberg
Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related... View Details
- Forthcoming
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Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics
By: Alexandre Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, Martin Ramé and Kai Wang
Contagion models are ubiquitous in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and management. This paper formulates a prescriptive contagion analytics model where a decision maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by...
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Jacquillat, Alexandre, Michael Lingzhi Li, Martin Ramé, and Kai Wang. "Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics." Operations Research (forthcoming). (Pre-published online March 13, 2024.)
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Bringing Individuals Back In: The Effects of Career Experience on New Firm Founding (forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this paper (with Scott Shane) the link between the career experiences of potential entrepreneurs and the decision to found a new firm is explored. Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, sociological research on organizational foundings has largely...
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Business History
Walter Friedman serves as co-editor of Business History Review. He has a special interest in the history of marketing and personal selling, and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (Harvard, 2004). He is also interested in the...
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Clusters and Competition
Porter is conducting ongoing research on the theory of clusters, or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. This work includes further development of cluster theory and its implications for management and public...
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