David B. Hertz

ThinkersC. 1919 to 2011Operations researcher

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He showed managers how to replace the single best estimate in a capital budgeting decision with ranges for each uncertain input, simulated many times, so the result is a distribution of returns with its odds. The article brought Monte Carlo simulation into corporate finance.

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