Although it is risky to claim that anyone invented anything, it is generally accepted by sociologists that Mr Merton's were the world's first focus groups, a research tool now used widely in commerce ...

Written by Jessica Guerin, as originally published in The Reverse Review. Robert C. Merton has been called a groundbreaking economist, an options guru and one of the finest minds in finance. For those ...

Markets are known to be risky, but what if you could design insurance that would protect against losses? That’s the problem Robert Merton, Myron Scholes and the late Fisher Black solved by developing ...

BOSTON, March 19, 2010 —Robert C. Merton, Harvard's John and Natty McArthur University Professor based at Harvard Business School and the 1997 cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Derivatives, says Professor Robert Merton in an interview with Gillian Tett in the FT, are grossly ...

FINANCE THEORISTS are, as everybody knows, unworldly people who can scarcely tie their shoelaces, still less change a car tyre. Robert Merton confounds this stereotype. As he talks amiably at the ...

Nobel laureate economist Robert Merton says David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry must fundamentally shift how Australia thinks about superannuation. Nobel laureate economist Robert Merton says ...

Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton participated recently in a ‘Q Factor’ podcast. Famed for his pioneering work in valuing derivatives, Merton today is worried about an approaching crisis in retirement ...

Scientists' Competitive Behavior Is Not Peculiar To Our Competitive Age Author: Robert K. Merton, pp.12 century, America's preeminent science historian/sociologist, Robert K. Merton, has played a ...

Robert Merton, who died on Sunday aged 92, was one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century and was responsible, among other things, for coining the expressions "self-fulfilling ...

Robert C. Merton is currently the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard in 1988, he served on the finance faculty of the ...