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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.
You may not have heard of all of them yet—but you will. Six of the next people to make headlines. Read More
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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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Operates as an aerospace firm in five principal segments: Commercial Airplane, Integrated Defense Systems, Precision Engagement … 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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