The eHarmony online dating website takes a quantitative approach to matchmaking matches rather than solely relying on subscribers to browse profiles. (Male and female icons are in the public domain. Source: Openclipart.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
MIT Course Number
15.071
As Taught In
Spring 2017
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Video lectures
- Captions/transcript
- Interactive assessments
- Lecture notes
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
Course Description
This course presents real-world examples in which quantitative methods provide a significant competitive edge that has led to a first order impact on some of today's most important companies. We outline the competitive landscape and present the key quantitative methods that created the edge (data-mining, dynamic optimization, simulation), and discuss their impact.