mathematics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

Director & Former Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Former Treasurer, Harvard University Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Wesleyan University, 1952 B.A., Mathematics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "HBS... View Details

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

stay-at-home mom. She cites her family, including four grandparents, as major influences. “There weren’t a lot of dolls in our house,” says Erdoes, who rode horses competitively until she went to Georgetown University. Erdoes majored in View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons

national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in... View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check

South resulted in increased academic abilities across the board, from spatial analysis to mathematics scores to reasoning. In 2003, William Bart and Michael Atherton of the University of Minnesota wrote a paper that discussed the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

guide than certain other disciplines that are sometimes regarded as more rigorous, like economics, for example. Economists with their more mathematical approach to social science conspicuously failed to anticipate this crisis, whereas a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical approach to examining this issue... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2007
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From A to Z

French Last Job: Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company, Moscow Age: 26 Why HBS? “My degree is in economics, which was exciting but strictly mathematical and theoretical. I wanted to become a more well-rounded individual and gain a wider... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

mathematics from Columbia University in 1966, Merton studied applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and earned an MS in 1967. In 1970 he completed a Ph.D. in economics at MIT and... View Details

16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact

increasing the organization’s visibility. “We may have discovered a better way to teach young kids mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly

(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

(I've always been a car buff!) when I was ten. I can remember going with my dad to the stockbroker's and sitting there watching the NYSE and AMEX tapes, learning all the companies' symbols. And when I was in graduate school in applied View Details

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

experience on to others.” Iyer’s route to the entertainment industry was circuitous. After graduating from Yale as an applied mathematics major, she worked for four years as a synthetics trader at Goldman Sachs, then decided to pursue an... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Chances Are

consultant. He fears a coming mathematical feudalism. "We are left with a kind of elite that knows how to think about this stuff and a large mass of people who are really very vulnerable." The Book of Odds, then, is Shapiro's attempt to... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; probability

01 Mar 2005
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Robert Buzzell Remembered

wholesale distribution; strategic planning; and the application of mathematical and statistical methods to marketing issues. A member of the HBS faculty from 1961 to 1993 and chair of the Marketing faculty from 1972 to 1977, he taught... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Taking Tailoring High Tech

width and lining options. But instead of measuring tapes, there’s Molly, a 3D scanner that creates a mathematical model of the shopper’s body. The more than 200,000 measurements collected in just seven seconds are translated into patterns... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion

03 Dec 2024
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Magic Numbers

Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

Nancy Karch admits that when she arrived at Soldiers Field she had "almost no understanding of business." While pursuing a doctorate in mathematics at Northeastern University, she "stumbled upon the idea of business school" when she... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott

year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business... View Details