Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When is it possible to predict a product’s success? How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products?

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Any fool, or mortgage banker, can use a spreadsheet and calculate a Black-Scholes equation. Integrate Data Into Products, or Get Left Behind. But if you don't understand what is happening behind the numbers, both in the math and the real world, you risk collapsing the World Financial System, or more likely your own business.

Black-Scholes 15

Black-Scholes Software Tools Information 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Firms in these industries and their customers who thereby benefit from lower prices (admittedly through processes they never see) benefit greatly. Economists and big data. Economists and market design. Most markets “clear” by having prices signal producers to make just enough that purchasers are willing to purchase. Economists and finance.

Strategy 11

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 11