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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
mathematics from Columbia University in 1966, Merton studied applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and earned an MS in 1967. In 1970 he completed a Ph.D. in economics at MIT and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
established the Bertrand Fox Publication Fund to support the dissemination of research studies and other faculty manuscripts. A native of Wisconsin, Fox earned his AB in mathematics and astronomy in 1929 from Northwestern University,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
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 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
consultant. He fears a coming mathematical feudalism. "We are left with a kind of elite that knows how to think about this stuff and a large mass of people who are really very vulnerable." The Book of Odds, then, is Shapiro's attempt to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
the power of shared data, and what alumni can do to drive this vital change. How does HBS define “digital transformation”? Oftentimes, when people think about “transformation,” they think about complete change. But there is a mathematical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy, irrational, impulsive, emotionally driven animals, all the raw intelligence and mathematical logic in the world is little help in the fraught, shifting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
sad story of our slippage in mathematics and science. In fourth grade, American children are ahead of almost everyone in the world. By the eighth grade they are even, and by twelfth grade they are seriously behind. If you walk through the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
Merton noted that "risk management will become an essential internal process for the lending institution if it expects to remain viable and competitive." By demonstrating mathematically how to determine and hedge risk exposure for any new... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
described her as a middle-aged woman. Middle age is a much different proposition these days. And far more mathematically accurate — there are probably as many years left as lived. Looking back, thanks to social change, the baby boomer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to accurately predict large-scale movements of history, sees an oncoming dark age that will last 30,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
(I've always been a car buff!) when I was ten. I can remember going with my dad to the stockbroker's and sitting there watching the NYSE and AMEX tapes, learning all the companies' symbols. And when I was in graduate school in applied View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
width and lining options. But instead of measuring tapes, there’s Molly, a 3D scanner that creates a mathematical model of the shopper’s body. The more than 200,000 measurements collected in just seven seconds are translated into patterns... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
Nancy Karch admits that when she arrived at Soldiers Field she had "almost no understanding of business." While pursuing a doctorate in mathematics at Northeastern University, she "stumbled upon the idea of business school" when she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young