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Brilliant Professors
by Condé Nast Portfolio Staff
May 2008 Issue
May 2008 Issue
The most influential academics in the business world.
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The Company is a manufacturer and marketer of home appliances. It manufactures appliances in 12 countries under 13 brand … View More
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A technology, media & financial services company, with products & services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, … View More
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The Company, together with its subsidiaries operates as an aerospace firm. It is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, … View More
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The Company provides consumer goods products to improve the lives of the world's consumers. It is organized into three Global … View More
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The Company's balanced business portfolio is based on electronics and electrical engineering. View More
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The Company researches, designs, manufactures and distributes interior furnishings for use in various environments including … View More
Robert Engle
New York University
Biggest contribution: Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, or ARCH
Cocktail-party definition: A model for predicting risk in a financial portfolio.
Who's listening: Virtually every hedge fund, investment bank, and money manager on Wall Street uses Engle's model; it won him the Nobel Prize in 2003.
Janine Benyus
University of Montana
Biggest contribution: Biomimicry
Cocktail-party definition: Industrial applications based on designs in nature, like solar cells that can mimic the photosynthesis of plant leaves.
Who's listening:
Boeing, General Electric, Herman Miller, and the North Face are clients of the Biomimicry Guild, which Benyus co-founded.
Tuomas Sandholm
Carnegie Mellon University
Biggest contribution: Combinatorial optimization
Cocktail-party definition: The algorithms behind enhanced business-to-business auction sites, which match buyers and sellers using more complex factors than just price (like shipping times, legal issues, and insurance limits).
Who's listening:Procter & Gamble, Siemens, the United States Postal Service, and Whirlpool have all bought goods and services through CombineNet, Sandholm's auction platform.
New York University
Biggest contribution: Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, or ARCH
Cocktail-party definition: A model for predicting risk in a financial portfolio.
Who's listening: Virtually every hedge fund, investment bank, and money manager on Wall Street uses Engle's model; it won him the Nobel Prize in 2003.
Janine Benyus
University of Montana
Biggest contribution: Biomimicry
Cocktail-party definition: Industrial applications based on designs in nature, like solar cells that can mimic the photosynthesis of plant leaves.
Who's listening:
Boeing, General Electric, Herman Miller, and the North Face are clients of the Biomimicry Guild, which Benyus co-founded.Tuomas Sandholm
Carnegie Mellon University
Biggest contribution: Combinatorial optimization
Cocktail-party definition: The algorithms behind enhanced business-to-business auction sites, which match buyers and sellers using more complex factors than just price (like shipping times, legal issues, and insurance limits).
Who's listening:
Procter & Gamble, Siemens, the United States Postal Service, and Whirlpool have all bought goods and services through CombineNet, Sandholm's auction platform.
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