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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. How do those without extensive training in statistics equip themselves with the skills necessary to thrive (or even just survive) in our age of “big data”?

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

In other words, Tirole does what modern academic economists do, only better than almost anyone else. He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. What are the aspects that distill the situation down to its very essence?’”.