Anomalies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2021
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Anomalie Cuts the Markups Out of Custom Wedding Dresses

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2017
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Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 May 2015
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A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

positive relationship between risk and return is strong between asset classes (say, stocks and bonds), it is weak within classes, such as the stock market. By analyzing a large sample of historical data from US banks, Baker has found that the low-risk View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Froot used a careful examination of a single transaction in the emerging market for catastrophic risk bonds to motivate a search for explanations for anomalies in the pricing and structure of this market. Another highlight of the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing

computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career trajectory, Dubinsky says: “It’s... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

MBA, Dick probably has a greater appreciation for what that means than most of his writer colleagues. “I’m definitely an anomaly at reunions,” he says, “but I’m here because of HBS and the alumni network—and I’m not just saying that to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2002
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Books

CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

scenarios, expected behaviors—and that this is a critical element of human intelligence. Translated into code, these biological functions became a unique learning algorithm, which Numenta’s business partner Grok makes available as an View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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