Optimization - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

(MBA 2023) - Lasso optimizes electrochemical carbon removal by building a drug discovery platform, but for the climate - through computational chemistry, electrolyte design, and cell engineering, Lasso will make direct air capture truly... View Details

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-099.pdf Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

spreads in social networks. I am also working on understanding the relative role of offline and online advertising to determine how firms should optimally allocate their resources across different media. View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

ground stations across the globe. My goal on our software team was to figure out when, where and for how long we could connect down to earth in order to minimize data loss and optimize the connectivity time. How has HBS helped you shape... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

goals and have success; optimizing capital efficiency; legal and intellectual property development; regulatory considerations. Industry Challenges and When to Get Help - when should you worry about regulatory concerns? Who do you hire... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist who studies View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2017
Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

tensions between optimizing shareholder value and the taking into account the wellbeing of employees and society. I struggle on a daily basis to think of how I can optimize my HBS experience and resources,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities

graduate and intern, to review more than a hundred LinkedIn profiles, helping former servicemen and women revise their online presence for optimal career advantage. “Technically, we made over a hundred or so profiles, but each person we... View Details

08 May 2025
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Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had rewards programs, fancy “spreadsheets” (on pen and paper), and a... View Details

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Ceena Beall

am determined to continue my paw paw’s legacy of triumph with a heart of optimism and charity. Like my paw paw, I’ve learned to be bold and resilient in the face of adversity. I will be a boss, blazing a trail so that I can be a blessing... View Details

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially from the markdown View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Allison Kean

I carry it with me — to the office, to a dinner party, to the corner store — approaching each person I meet with the assumption that not everything has been, or will be, easy. I offer this gift of empathy to others who are seeking a way forward. With the View Details

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

think we can stop health-care reform if and when we come to agreement about an optimal insurance model," says Bohmer. "For me, insurance reform is a necessary but not sufficient component of health-care reform. "It is hard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

13 Nov 2014
Blog Post

Finance Conference Recap

inevitable cycles of the industry as well as his optimism in the ability of financial institutions to adapt to the deluge of regulatory changes seen since the financial crisis. His discussion was followed by a selection of panels, which... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Books

Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details

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Neil Band | MBA

track in tech entrepreneurship. Tech areas of interest: I’m fascinated by the application of machine learning, distributed systems, and cryptography to economics and biology. I currently research memory optimization in deep neural network... View Details

06 Dec 2017
News

Puzzle Master

business relative to other omnichannel retailers, our data scientists and digital marketing experts optimize our content to deliver a superior and customized customer experience, and we often pilot new partnerships and integrations across... View Details

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