Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2011

Canadian Malcolm Gladwell in his book, " Outliers ," tells us that the way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulling prophecy" a situation where a "false definition, in the beginning.evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true.".

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Merton Maturity Definition Class 97

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the case of stock options, the EFV formula is typically a Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model that, rooted in the “efficient markets hypothesis,” assumes that changes in a company’s stock-price exhibit a log-normal distribution and thus predicts that most stock-price changes will be very small.

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CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Tony wrote that he admires "the intensive care nurses I met several years ago.who get treated as second-class citizens by most of the surgeons, but still put in 12-hour shifts, often without the opportunity to sit down, or eat, or even go to the bathroom. They do so because they're devoted to saving lives."

Merton 15

Merton Self-aware Rate of Return Class 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Like many middle-class Europeans of their generation, my parents—who had both been first in their families to go to high school, who spent their whole adult lives in the same place, who never spoke a foreign language—insisted that I learn English and travel. Foot Soldiers of Globalization.

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Merton Globalization Politics Learning-by-Doing 8