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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
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
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
risky decisions. Time after time, instead of picking the correct decision based on the probabilities, they erred on the side of underinvestment. And so that risk-aversion tax is the difference between what the mathematics of probabilities... View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
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
- 26 May 2016
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
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
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
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 Mar 2016
- News
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 Jun 1997
- News
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
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
used traditional methods of inquiry - mathematical theory or statistical analysis, for instance - while others employed interviews, primary company materials, surveys, and close examination of the trading of individual securities. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
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
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
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
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
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 Oct 1998
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
understanding of network effects, revenue models, and ecosystem development. Given its founders’ academic pedigrees—Barrera studied with Nobel laureate Oliver Hart; Hurder with Nobel laureate and HBS professor emeritus Al Roth—Prysm also is more View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
of Boston, she had a half dozen jobs (lawn mowing, farm stand, newspaper delivery) by the time she was 15. “Once I learned I could make money and have freedom, I was all about capitalizing on opportunities,” she observes. She attended Princeton, studying View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
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
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
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