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  • 24 Jul 2024
  • News

Harvard Business School MBA Is Now STEM Designated

  • August 2005 (Revised September 2006)
  • Case

Polyphonic HMI: Mixing Music and Math

By: Anita Elberse, Jehoshua Eliashberg and Julian Villanueva
In 2003, Mike McCready, CEO of Barcelona-based Polyphonic HMI, was preparing to launch an artificial intelligence tool that could create significant value for music businesses. The technology, referred to as Hit Song Science (HSS), analyzed the mathematical... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Music Entertainment; Business History; Leadership; Marketing Strategy; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Mathematical Methods; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Daniel W. Green

    Daniel Green is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. He teaches the Finance II course to MBA students.

    Professor Green’s research focuses on corporate finance, capital markets, and financial intermediation.  His current... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; private equity (LBO funds); investment banking industry
    • May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
    • Background Note

    Note on Forward Contracts and Swaps

    Introduces forward contracts and derives graphically through basic arbitrage principles the spot-forward parity. Introduces swap contracts as simply a portfolio of forward contracts. Also covers briefly the mathematics behind swaps as an extension of spot-forward... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments
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    • 15 Oct 2012
    • News

    Roth shares economics Nobel

    • 04 May 2017
    • News

    Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage

      Katherine B. Coffman

      Katherine Coffman is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiations, Organizations & Markets unit. Before joining HBS, she was an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University and a visiting assistant professor of... View Details

      • 03 Dec 2013
      • News

      PISA Test Results For U.S. Students Are 'Sobering'

      • 2005
      • Working Paper

      Macro for Managers

      By: David A. Moss
      This note attempts to provide a conceptual overview of macroeconomics. Designed for managers and students of management, it emphasizes fundamental ideas and relationships, rather than mathematical models and formulas. The note identifies—and is structured around—three... View Details
      Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Relationships; Performance Expectations
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        Miaomiao Zhang

        Miaomiao Zhang is a doctoral candidate at the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Miaomiao received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Economics from Emory University. She worked at the Strategy Unit at Harvard... View Details

          054: Christine Exley on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and Wagaroo

          Frank Conway, host of Economic Rockstar, interviews Christine Exley about why she co-founded Wagaroo to help save dogs, how a trip to Honduras changed Christine’s academic path from mathematics to economics, and her work on what factors influence volunteer and... View Details

          • 14 Mar 2021
          • News

          Kominers’s Conundrums: Procuring Perfect Pies for Pi Day

            Edward H. Chang

            Edward Chang (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Inclusion in the MBA required curriculum and Negotiations in the MBA elective curriculum.
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              James I. Cash

              Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software
              • Research Summary

              Overview

              My background is rooted in mathematics and science, so I am interested in strategy theory. I have a broad interest in a variety of fields, and am open to research topics. My senior thesis was on copula modelling of heating oil and natural gas futures. View Details

                Joshua R. Schwartzstein

                Joshua Schwartzstein is a Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. 

                Professor Schwartzstein is a behavioral economist who focuses on incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions about... View Details

                • 2020
                • Working Paper

                Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

                By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
                We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the “effective reproductive number” and how the effective reproductive number is... View Details
                Keywords: Coronavirus; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods
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                • 18 Apr 2014
                • HBS Seminar

                Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

                  Jorge Tamayo

                  Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

                  Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

                  • 28 Dec 2018
                  • News

                  This Was a Great Year to Be a Math Geek