Mathematics - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

provide prescriptive recommendations, many of these papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. Testament to the complexity of these activities is the high level of mathematical... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

October 2000 (Revised April 2001)
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Cost of Capital at Ameritrade

By: Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford

Ameritrade Holding Corp. is planning large marketing and technology investments to improve the company's competitive position in deep-discount brokerage by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. In order to evaluate whether the strategy would generate... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Investment; Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry

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08 Dec 2020
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Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

When it comes to the job hunt, many of us have a traditional view of what it takes to find a new position: A worker searches for available openings, sends in a resume, and waits for an interview. Much of academic research assumes that’s the way people find jobs, too.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

science—such as prediction, causality, visualization, data wrangling, privacy, and ethics—but does so without coding or mathematical application. The course is intended for organizational leaders and managers to be prepared to act on data... View Details

October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
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Store24 (A): Managing Employee Retention

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell

Provides a retailing context in which employee retention strategies are explored through analyzing detailed store-level data. View Details

Keywords: Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Analytics and Data Science; Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry

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September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
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Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen

Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Negotiation Offer; Mathematical Methods; Ship Transportation; Valuation; Consulting Industry; Shipping Industry

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30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

17 Dec 2007
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The Rise of Medical Tourism

the U.S. medical profession are still large. In India, the same depth of pool of engineering and mathematical talent for software, offshoring, and outsourcing is there for medicine, too. In the 1950s and '60s, the Indian government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

03 May 2010
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What Is the Future of MBA Education?

situations into mathematical models. The percentage of MBAs that we hire will go down in the next ten years. A director of a leading consulting firm made much the same point: We now hire a very large number of non-MBAs into our Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Sagar Saxena

While applying for graduate programs, Sagar Saxena (he/him) was unsure about whether he had the right background to pursue a PhD in Business Economics at HBS because he had not taken graduate-level courses in mathematics or economics.... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

guide than certain other disciplines that are sometimes regarded as more rigorous, like economics, for example. Economists with their more mathematical approach to social science conspicuously failed to anticipate this crisis, whereas a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

the American Mathematical Society , no. 4. New York, N.Y.: American Mathematical Society, 1951. * Samuelson, Paul A. Foundations of Economic Analysis . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947. *... View Details

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Jonathan Wallen | Working Knowledge

markets, industrial organization, and banking regulation. He studies the effects of frictions to financial intermediation on asset prices and risk premia. These frictions include bank capital regulations, debt overhang, and imperfect competition. Professor Wallen... View Details

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

more than twenty-five years ago to the impact and growth of his groundbreaking work in the current academic and financial communities. The Black-Scholes option pricing model established the everyday use of mathematical models as essential... View Details

03 Aug 2015
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Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

researchers use a complex mathematical model to get to the bottom of just why enemies might decide to share a locker. It boils down to a difference in how they make their money. "Even though both [companies] make money from hardware and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

more than twenty-five years ago to the impact and growth of his groundbreaking work in the current academic and financial communities. The Black-Scholes option pricing model established the everyday use of mathematical models as essential... View Details

Parker Treacy

Competition in 2016, becoming the first Latin American startup to receive the award. In 2019, Cobli was elected by LinkedIn as one of the top ten startups in Brazil. Previously, Parker founded First Help Financial, the tenth largest independent vehicle finance company... View Details

Keywords: Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#68;#Transportation & Logistics

01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he... View Details