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Sustainability in Waste Management

management. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and 2050. In addition to the waste... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence

same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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Bloomberg Research Portal | Baker Library

Help Center Bloomberg Research Portal What information is available in the Bloomberg Research Portal? The Bloomberg Research Portal (BRC) is a gateway for accessing aggregated research from over 1,500 providers, including brokers, market... View Details

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Companies: small or private

Limited information about some private and/or small companies may be found in Orbis, Capital IQ, FactSet, and Lexis/Nexis. Most of these are aggregators of... View Details

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Industries: financial analytical data and tools

Where can I find aggregate data on specific industries? An increasing number of databases are now available on the market to support the financial data analytical needs of bankers and financial professionals. Baker provides access to a... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
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Optimizing search technology

for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more efficient way—then we can help them get closer to a cure.” Dumon became interested in search technology while at eBay, where he served as... View Details

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Tax statistics: United States

Where can I find aggregate tax data? Tax Statistics: Main statistics site of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). SOI Tax Stats - SOI Bulletins: Statistics of Income data provided by the IRS. For older issues see... View Details

18 May 2009
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The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

governments are not very effective in accelerating technological change or in fostering technology adoption. If a government's deficit leads to higher aggregate demand, companies may find it more attractive to adopt and develop new... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

28 Jan 2013
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Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

over 33 million reviews for local businesses, with some sporting more than 1,000 reviews each. How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

25 May 2020
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Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

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Factiva | Baker Library

Factiva Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Read More Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content is available in 22 languages.... View Details

21 Jul 2003
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Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

probe beneath customer preferences and behaviors to uncover the attitudes that provide a more solid understanding of customer loyalty. Why You Need Both Individual And Aggregated Data One-to-one marketing, a term coined by Don Peppers and... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

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News by country

How can I find today's news by country? Factiva: aggregates news from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications and transcripts. Go to News Pages then choose country from drop down menu. the default is... View Details

02 Sep 2022
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Strength in Numbers

ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The... View Details

21 Mar 2018
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Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

brand. Aggregator platforms: To reduce your time burden and increase the impact of your efforts, Grinshpun suggests using aggregator tools, like Hootsuite, that help you distribute content across multiple... View Details

25 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

enterprise-focused and still in beta mode, but Ushahidi’s greater mission of technology for development—“tech4dev”—is worth writing more about. The company uses cloud-based technologies—your smartphone, your computer, and even SMS, to quickly View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Jun 2015
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Five-Star Research

data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer ratings to arrive at a... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Portrait Project

Monica Gupta Adractas

Harvard's beautiful white steeples. My life... I hope my life will embody the multiplier effect, which, in economics, occurs when a dollar in spending has a disproportionate effect on aggregate demand. Instead of mere spending, I hope to... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Richmond R. Jose, and Robert L. Winkler Abstract—Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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