Mathematics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

the future and the managerial skills required of the "conflict-competent organization." Assistant Professor Patrick W. Sileo mathematically analyzes bargaining behavior and how people should select negotiating situations and tactics. For... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

28 Mar 2018
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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 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead

my application aside and asked whether I’d like to get a doctorate instead,” recalls Light. After discussions during a visit to the campus, Light agreed to enter a new doctoral program in decision and control theory, a joint program between HBS and Harvard’s economics... View Details

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

01 Jun 2007
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details

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

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age Understanding the Digital, Data, and... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

discusses its relationship to mathematics and laws. It explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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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

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

innovation become the norm. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959) (Springer) This in-depth guide to effective scientific research explains at the outset what science can and can’t achieve and discusses its... View Details

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