Education
Stanford University, Ph.D. in Business Administration/Finance, MBA, and B.A. in Hispanic American Studies |
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Biography
Dr. Lessard is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies international corporate strategy and finance with a special emphasis on risk and knowledge management. Dr. Lessard's research is focused on the shaping and managing of risks in large engineering projects, the globalization of financial services, and knowledge development within multinational firms.
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Selected Publications
- The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks and Governance, by Donald R. Lessard, Roger Miller, and IMEC Research Group, The MIT Press, 2001.
- "Country Risk and the Structure of International Financial Intermediation,"
by Donald R. Lessard, Financial Risk: Theory, Evidence, and Implications: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Courtenay C. Stone, ed., 1986.
- "Volatile Exchange Rates Can Put Operations at Risk,"
by Donald R. Lessard and John B. Lightstone, Harvard Business Review, 1986.
- "Risk Bearing and the Choice of Contract Forms for Oil Exploration and Development,"
by Donald R. Lessard, C.R. Blitzer, and J.L. Paddock, The Energy Journal, 1984.
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