Advice To Graduates

A Word of Advice to Young Indian Medical Graduates

followers of this noble profession devote their lives and energies for the good of their patients and in raising the profession to its highest pitch of excellence; but,unfortunately, there are some who do not follow it in the same catholic spirit. It, therefore, behoves the profession at. large, and the practitioners of the healing art in particular, to devote their entire attention to the well...

From Logarithmic Advice to Single-Bit Advice

Building on Barak’s work (Random’02), Fortnow and Santhanam (FOCS’04) proved a time hierarchy for probabilistic machines with one bit of advice. Their argument is based on an implicit translation technique, which allow to translate separation results for short (say logarithmic) advice (as shown by Barak) into separations for a single-bit advice. In this note, we make this technique explicit, by...

Advice to Mothers

How to Buy Advice∗

A decision maker, whose payoff is influenced by an unknown stochastic process, seeks the advice of an advisor, who may be informed about the process. We identify a sufficient condition on the correlation between the advisor’s information and the true stochastic process, called conservativeness, for which there exists a strategy D of the decision maker that will yield him an almost first-best pa...

Advice for Manufacturers Advice from Experienced Manufacturers to Aspiring Manufacturers

Part of the second goal of the project was to develop information that could help organizations hoping to develop and commercialize medical devices to understand the managed care market environment and to prepare accordingly. We asked interview respondents representing manufacturers to offer advice for such organizations. Interview respondents generally offered extensive and thoughtful answers ...