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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
"When I decided I wanted to go to Wall Street, I probably got rejected 200 times ." —Entrepreneur and University of Toronto professor Reza Satchu (MBA 1996). With brother Asif Satchu (MBA 1999), View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
professor, where they have invented a new way to move power without wires. The company’s called WiTricity—wireless electricity—and it couldn’t be more exciting. “We have so many new electronic devices in our lives that we are all dependent upon, and I think View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
trillion-dollar plans to attempt to mitigate carbon. Businesses, homeowners, and local governments must focus on what can be done today to address these direct threats to people and property. There are three major tools in the “what to do next” approach: probability,... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sleight of Hand
Camirand Academy of Magic, a magic-products supplier in Quebec. “I use this lotion at least twice a week, minimum, and I probably go through an ounce, an ounce and a half a year,” he told the New York Times (February 19, 2006). “For most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
coordinated, wide-ranging, government-led response, which sadly is not what we’re seeing right now. But as the timing of this extends, we're going to have to rely on structural remedies—things like income support, continued payments to individuals, payments to small... View Details
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Prelude - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
lessons of probability theory to the stock market has been a key focus of twentieth-century American finance. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late '60s, Merton was able to both draw on the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
others. It was attended by about half the section, which probably skipped a class with the permission of the instructor. Adored by Section E for his quick wit, warm personality, and brilliance in teaching the decision tree by the case... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
early on how to separate your instincts from your ideas. Because your instincts as an entrepreneur are probably always right and your ideas are probably mostly wrong. We tend to solder those two together and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
that, “‘imposters’ could well bring in the balancing element in the teams of today where more people are the exact opposite in terms of work output to ‘talk’ ratio!” Cathy Lee speculated about whether imposters “are more loyal.” A comment by jhsmd View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
forecast less extreme)? To answer these questions, we introduce a class of optimal aggregators. These aggregators are Bayesian ensembles because they follow from a Bayesian model of the underlying information experts have. Each ensemble is a generalized additive model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
Illustration: Chris Gash Illustration: Chris Gash The internet grew up inordinately fast. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that it blew right by the accessibility guidelines that would’ve made digital tools available to everyone, regardless of their age or ability,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
securities are pooled and tranched. Their simulation uses pools consisting of 100 bonds with a five-year default probability of 5 percent and a recovery rate of 50 percent of face value conditional on default. Within each pool, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
The Dark Side
Sun for five years, Yelland learned what his readers wanted, including fare such as scandalous pols and topless royals. “The Sun is probably more plugged into British consumers than almost any other business in the country,” said Yelland.... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Growing Latino Buying Power
years.” Perez goes on to say that Avance is still early to this trend. “If you look at the Latino market, probably less than a fraction of one percent of the capital is focused on it,” he says. “So I think we have a ways to go. But the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
something new, which shows that you can’t create a computerized system with all the answers, not yet. There are human factors and emotions involved beyond the probability statistics. But that’s what makes this work fascinating—otherwise... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
overweighted in probability judgments but are underweighted in repeated decisions under uncertainty. Two laboratory studies examine both decisions and probability assessments within the same paradigm. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- News
A Passionate Patron and Collector
HBS MBA, and how the arts factored into his academic experience. “When I was 3, 4 years old, I would draw and paint,” Van Lee tells the interviewer. “In elementary school, I was in the glee club. In high school, I was in speech and drama. The performing arts and visual... View Details
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
had just come down, and I had expected the bags to be there when the first-class folks arrived. The standard would probably be that when first class arrives, have the bags there. Coach people came, no bags. Now we're all waiting, and it... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
Watertown, Massachusetts. The company builds systems derived from innovative electricity-delivery technology developed by an MIT professor (Boston Globe, February 22, 2010). While initial applications — Giler thinks they will be ubiquitous in five years or so — will... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
turnover, age of the firm, and the percentage of firms that issued stock during a run-up, among other factors. Greenwood found that, while Fama was correct in asserting that sharp price increases do not predict lower returns going forward, these increases do predict... View Details