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  • 14 Mar 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Procuring Perfect Pies for Pi Day

  • September 1983 (Revised October 1984)
  • Case

Syntex Laboratories (A)

A consulting project involving a mathematical model of the sales force indicates that Syntex Labs should nearly double the size of their sales force and drastically alter their allocation of sales effort to the product line and physician specialties. The questions are... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Elon Kohlberg

    Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

    Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
    • 01 Jul 2019
    • Video

    MBA Class of 2020 Student Voices

    • 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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    • 13 Jul 2016
    • News

    Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92

    • 28 Dec 2018
    • News

    This Was a Great Year to Be a Math Geek

      Charlotte L. Robertson

      Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

      • 21 May 2019
      • Video

      Getting to Know 2019 Class Day Student Speaker Brandon Rapp

      • August 2001
      • Technical Note

      Technical Note on Expectations

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      Reviews the mathematics of expectations embedded in a company's current stock price and the related (whole) enterprise value. Begins by showing how the current stock price can be compounded forward to arrive at an expectation one or more years in the future. Describes... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Expectations; Price; Stocks
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      Improved Bounds on the Sizes of S.P Numbers

      By: Paul Myer Kominers and Scott Duke Kominers
      A number which is S.P in base r is a positive integer which is equal to the sum of its base-r digits multiplied by the product of its base-r digits. These numbers have been studied extensively in The Mathematical Gazette. Recently, Shah Ali... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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      • 13 Jul 2022
      • News

      So What Happened to Crypto?

        Andy Wu

        Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details

        Keywords: software; e-commerce industry; venture capital industry; biotechnology; video games
        • 28 Sep 2015
        • News

        Lots Of Candidates Want To Simplify Tax Code; Here's What They Get Wrong

          Robin Greenwood

          Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; financial services

            Elisabeth C. Paulson

            Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
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            Keywords: agriculture; federal government; state government; grocery; nonprofit industry

              Amy C. Edmondson

              Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

              Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting

                John W. Pratt

                John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details

                  Celia Stafford

                  Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is also... View Details

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                  An Impossibility Theorem on Beliefs in Games (with H. Jerome Keisler)

                  A 'paradox' of self-reference in beliefs in games is identified, which yields a game-theoretic impossibility theorem akin to (a weak form of) Tarski's Theorem of mathematical logic. A rough interpretation of the theorem is that if a model of a game is available to the... View Details