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- 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 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
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 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
established the Bertrand Fox Publication Fund to support the dissemination of research studies and other faculty manuscripts. A native of Wisconsin, Fox earned his AB in mathematics and astronomy in 1929 from Northwestern University,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always prevail where “indeterminate human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
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
- 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
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
example helped Cassell consider becoming a teacher himself. "It was fascinating to observe how Steve's channeling of the children's excitement about their ideas led students to 'discover' things such as drawing to scale and abstract View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
in 1987, the game puts players in the manager’s seat, letting them make tactical decisions against a mathematical model that determines outcomes based on everything from how a batter has historically fared against a certain pitcher to the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
the power of shared data, and what alumni can do to drive this vital change. How does HBS define “digital transformation”? Oftentimes, when people think about “transformation,” they think about complete change. But there is a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy, irrational, impulsive, emotionally driven animals, all the raw intelligence and mathematical logic in the world is little help in the fraught, shifting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data is precisely that it will lead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
sad story of our slippage in mathematics and science. In fourth grade, American children are ahead of almost everyone in the world. By the eighth grade they are even, and by twelfth grade they are seriously behind. If you walk through the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Merton noted that "risk management will become an essential internal process for the lending institution if it expects to remain viable and competitive." By demonstrating mathematically how to determine and hedge risk exposure for any new... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
of investment management. “I think that vote captured a powerful tension inside the students,” she remarks. “They have plenty of mathematical and financial models to support the point of view that restricting the size of an ‘investable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
described her as a middle-aged woman. Middle age is a much different proposition these days. And far more mathematically accurate — there are probably as many years left as lived. Looking back, thanks to social change, the baby boomer... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses View Details