Simulation Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

experimentation and are triggering fundamental changes in R&D processes and performance in such fields as integrated circuit design, automotive development, and pharmaceutical drug discovery. Computer modeling and simulation, rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

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Linda Leung

In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Flight Path

mall in Los Angeles. November 2016 DRL partners with Bud Light to find the next professional drone racer, recruited through DRL’s online simulator and a live tournament. February 2017 DRL signs a multiyear title sponsorship with German... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Some investors want the company to license its technology to semiconductor companies. Others want the company to become a "lableless" semiconductor company producing and selling its own products. The question for the team at Nantero is, what View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2020
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Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

Finalists Business Track, 2025 Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Accelerating AI model... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

discovering materials that will make carbon capture more efficient. His company, Carbon Vacuum, won the 2022 New Venture Competition’s Tough Tech Prize. The core of that work is called a techno-economic analysis—basically modeling out... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

of motives and identification with groups, norms, and culture. In economics we talked about the role leadership plays in coordination and how economic models can help us understand that. History points us to the role of the biographer and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

new ventures, and investors. Students will develop their strategy through simulated negotiation exercises, experience from guest speakers, and practice in the field along-side experts. Learning Objectives: To get a sense for the... View Details

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

an individual investment and an investment firm level. Learning Objectives Pattern recognition: Refine and develop a framework for investing Investment process organization: expose students to the investment process beyond research, from sourcing to implementation... View Details

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries to grow or transition your career. You’ll build lasting connections that support you wherever life takes you next. Learn More about the HBS Online Learning... View Details

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Marketing - HBS Online

peers before, during, and after your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries to grow or transition your career. You’ll build lasting connections that support you wherever life takes you next. Learn More... View Details

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the industry morass—resulting, for... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2003
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Books

Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and computer modeling — to generate and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1640638 Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model... View Details