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Rohan Gopaldas

professor is listening. Ninety students are listening. And you have to make an impact in thirty to forty seconds. It's an electric environment, eighty minutes of pure engagement. And a great simulation of what we'll face in the working... View Details

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

running lab experiments is that we can simulate many different types of inequality and look at many different types of decisions.” "You'd think that with such a large change in our society, you'd see a definitive impact... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Benjamin Story

Buzz Lightyear attraction in Disneyland Paris, and as a producer within Disney's virtual-reality technology group. "On one level, we were creating a fully-functioning simulation for a new attraction, the Radiator Springs Racers,... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges

prepare for reentry into the workforce. Oberholzer-Gee and his faculty colleagues are also exploring what concepts and skills are most effectively learned using technology and online platforms. For example, simulations and multimedia... View Details

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

case: http://hbr.org/search/413127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Exercise 713-804 Competition Simulator Exercise In the "Competition Simulator Exercise," students explore through trial and error... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Dec 2018
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

itself. The wind tunnel data forms half of the company’s iterative aerodynamic design cycle. Combined with the use of simulation tools, design engineers get a full picture of the blade design. Finally, the facilities also include a rain... View Details

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

fellow online learners through unique simulations and interactive activities Yes Some Discount for repeat participants Yes Some Certificate awarded upon completion of program Yes Some Invitation to a global professional network, including... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

roles requiring different skill sets. In comparison, by 2018, Vodafone had installed chatbots—software applications simulating interactions with people—where one bot may replace three workers, but it hadn’t yet significantly altered its... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 May 2013
Blog Post

3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture

the Women’s Training team better understand Nike’s position against global competitors and identify gaps or opportunities to consider in their business plan. Working with the group’s Strategic Planner, I also developed a ‘War Games’ activity to provide a View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Sara Roedner

Director of Operations of the 2011 Retail & Luxury Goods Club conference and will be one of the conference vice presidents next year. "Managing panelists, speakers, and vendors simulates the situations I'll meet in various... View Details

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Lindsay Hyde

in a simulated climb of Mt. Everest,” she says. “It was a great way to start the year, to begin thinking about how we want to develop as leaders.” In FIELD 2, Lindsay and her team helped an Indian retailer, Nalli Silk Sarees, develop a... View Details

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Linda Leung

In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

mall in Los Angeles. November 2016 DRL partners with Bud Light to find the next professional drone racer, recruited through DRL’s online simulator and a live tournament. February 2017 DRL signs a multiyear title sponsorship with German... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

engineered our way into the problem; we have to engineer our way out of it. How do we find these new molecules? Unfortunately, we can’t simulate molecules the same way that we simulate larger physical... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Sep 2003
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Books

Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and test new product possibilities.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

Harvard/Mass General Hospital partners' laboratories, they've demonstrated success with human livers, frozen, thawed and, when hooked up to a simulated transplant model, fully functioning. "This could become the new way of doing... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund... View Details

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