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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
predictions of those who warned that a company whose bottom line wasn't the bottom line could never survive, Scher has molded privately-held Working Assets over the past fifteen years into a business with 500,000 customers, 100-plus... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
function effectively, predictive models such as ChatGPT are trained on massive amounts of historical data, some of which may be personal, proprietary, or copyrighted. In a research paper they coauthored,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the trading floor. The model offers a methodology to predict the seemingly unpredictable by using the lessons of complex mathematics and probability theory to forecast stock valuations, making it possible to... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
techniques to try to predict which deals he should offer to customers based on the purchasing behavior of those customers closest to them. Topics include supervised learning; collaborative filtering; K-nearest neighbor as a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
should consider not only the churn probability of customers, but also how much they spend, the likelihood that they will respond to a retention offer, and the cost of the offer itself. Gupta's predictive View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new technologies declines sufficiently with the current level of adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
although the real world outcome ends up being quite close to the prediction of a model that assumes everyone is identical," he says. "But students aren't going to take your word for that. They'll... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
that presents a wide array of commitment decisions. He analyzes the match between case outcomes and model predications both qualitatively and quantitatively. The case method offers clues about how to refine existing theory. In addition to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
than in models with fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Teams | New Venture Competition
Teams Business Track Winners, 2025 Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Business Track Winner Accelerating AI model development for physical AI. HydroHaul Eli Litchman (MBA 2025), Fenil Desai Business Track... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
The case follows MBA graduate Emily Figel as she researches LendingClub as a potential investment vehicle for the small wealth management firm she will join in the fall. Using LendingClub’s historical data, she learns the fundamentals of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
depends on the number of customers the firm decides to target for its retention campaign. We propose a predictive model that accounts for all these elements. Our optimization algorithm uses stochastic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne