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  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Macro for Managers

By: David A. Moss
This note attempts to provide a conceptual overview of macroeconomics. Designed for managers and students of management, it emphasizes fundamental ideas and relationships, rather than mathematical models and formulas. The note identifies—and is structured around—three... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Relationships; Performance Expectations
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the “effective reproductive number” and how the effective reproductive number is... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods
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  • 28 Dec 2018
  • News

This Was a Great Year to Be a Math Geek

    Charlotte L. Robertson

    Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

    • 01 Jul 2019
    • Video

    MBA Class of 2020 Student Voices

    • August 2001
    • Technical Note

    Technical Note on Expectations

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Reviews the mathematics of expectations embedded in a company's current stock price and the related (whole) enterprise value. Begins by showing how the current stock price can be compounded forward to arrive at an expectation one or more years in the future. Describes... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Expectations; Price; Stocks
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      Jorge Tamayo

      Jorge Tamayo is an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit. He teaches the Strategy course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Tamayo is an applied microeconomist primarily interested in industrial organization and... View Details

        Elon Kohlberg

        Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

        Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
        • Article

        Improved Bounds on the Sizes of S.P Numbers

        By: Paul Myer Kominers and Scott Duke Kominers
        A number which is S.P in base r is a positive integer which is equal to the sum of its base-r digits multiplied by the product of its base-r digits. These numbers have been studied extensively in The Mathematical Gazette. Recently, Shah Ali... View Details
        Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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        • September 1983 (Revised October 1984)
        • Case

        Syntex Laboratories (A)

        A consulting project involving a mathematical model of the sales force indicates that Syntex Labs should nearly double the size of their sales force and drastically alter their allocation of sales effort to the product line and physician specialties. The questions are... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        • 13 Jul 2022
        • News

        So What Happened to Crypto?

          Andy Wu

          Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details

          Keywords: software; e-commerce industry; venture capital industry; biotechnology; video games
          • 13 Jul 2016
          • News

          Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92

          • 28 Sep 2015
          • News

          Lots Of Candidates Want To Simplify Tax Code; Here's What They Get Wrong

            Aiyesha Dey

            Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School as an associate professor of accounting since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faculty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after... View Details

            • 21 May 2019
            • Video

            Getting to Know 2019 Class Day Student Speaker Brandon Rapp

              John W. Pratt

              John W. Pratt is a professor of business administration, emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He was educated at Princeton and Stanford, specializing in mathematics and statistics. Except for two years at the University of Chicago, and a sabbatical in Kyoto on a... View Details

                Elisabeth C. Paulson

                Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
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                Keywords: agriculture; federal government; state government; grocery; nonprofit industry

                  Amy C. Edmondson

                  Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details

                  Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry; professional services; consulting

                    Robin Greenwood

                    Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

                    Keywords: banking; financial services