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?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Productivity increases. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. Companies that can understand how individual processes are adding or destroying value can turn red balance sheets back into black. Productivity increases.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

High tech companies like Amazon, Yahoo and Google, among others, now employ economists to sift through all kinds of data — retail transaction data, browsing patterns, mobile phone usage — to fine tune their product offerings, pricing and other business strategies. Economists and market design. Economists and finance.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12