mathematics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
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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

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

kids mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking their own lives,” he notes. Offensend is currently focused on increasing the organization’s... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

HBS professor emeritus Robert H. Hayes. Wheelwright, who received a BS in mathematics from the University of Utah (1966), has served on the faculty of INSEAD (The European Institute of Business Administration) in Fontainebleau, France,... View Details

02 Dec 2019
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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

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

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

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

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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