Publications

August 2005 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

Store24 (B): Statistics Review with Data Desk (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei

Presents an overview of the statistical analysis covered in the case discussion. View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry

Purchase

fall 1992
Article

Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-curve, Part 1: Component Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Technology; Mathematical Methods

20 Mar 2001 - 21 Mar 2001
Conference Presentation

QAP: The Quadratic Assignment Procedure

By: William B. Simpson

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

2002
Case

Qualitative Response Models: Ordinal and Multinomial Models

By: William B. Simpson

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

1979
Dissertation

Inference in Partially Identified Models

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

01 Mar 2005
News

Robert Buzzell Remembered

wholesale distribution; strategic planning; and the application of mathematical and statistical methods to marketing issues. A member of the HBS faculty from 1961 to 1993 and chair of the Marketing faculty from 1972 to 1977, he taught... View Details

19 Oct 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Games of Threats

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education

November 2024
Article

Preference Externality Estimators: A Comparison of Border Approaches and IVs

By: Xi Ling, Wesley R. Hartmann and Tomomichi Amano

This paper compares two estimators—the Border Approach and an Instrumental Variable (IV) estimator—using a unified framework where identifying variation arises from “preference externalities,” following the intuition in Waldfogel (2003). We highlight two dimensions in... View Details

Keywords: Econometrics; Casual Inference; Marketing; Economics; Advertising; Mathematical Methods

February 2005
Article

An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services

By: Vishal Gaur, Marshall L. Fisher and Ananth Raman

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Assets; Performance; Sales; Retail Industry

Alumni WDYDWYD

Margaret Regan

education was definitely emphasized by my dad as a vehicle to growth and expanding my horizons. I got a BS in Mathematics and then worked in computer programming before managing the computer facility at a major company. That sounds like... View Details

Profile

Sid Shenai

For most of his life, Sid Shenai had pursued a single goal: to be a mathematical physicist. At Harvard, Sid finished his required courses early and participated in graduate level research. But his path toward a Ph.D was interrupted by a... View Details

Other Unpublished Work

A Technique to Estimate Retail Demand and Lost Sales

By: A. Raman and Giulio Zotteri

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Demand and Consumers; Sales; Retail Industry

2018
Working Paper

Full Substitutability

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp

Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of... View Details

Keywords: Substitutability; Mathematical Methods; Auctions; Market Design

SSRN

Article

Testing Substitutability

By: John William Hatfield, Nicole Immorlica and Scott Duke Kominers

We provide an algorithm for testing the substitutability of a length-N preference relation over a set of contracts X in time O(|X|3⋅N3). Access to the preference relation is essential for this result: We show that a substitutability-testing algorithm with access only... View Details

Keywords: Substitutability; Matching; Communication Complexity; Preference Elicitation; Marketplace Matching; Communication; Mathematical Methods; Economics

Purchase

1980
Chapter

Network Analysis on Organization

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Design; Networks; Mathematical Methods

January 2004 (Revised March 2005)
Case

Valuation Ratios in the Restaurant Industry

By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu

Examines factors underlying differences in valuation multiples (price-earnings and price-to-book) across four firms in the restaurant industry. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Valuation; Mathematical Methods; Food and Beverage Industry

1983
Article

Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Mathematical Methods

January 1978
Background Note

Regression and Forecasting Using the AQD Package

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Mathematical Methods