Data Analytics - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

class. The Tech Club, Business Analytics & Data Club, and Code Club provide dozens of courses in software development and data science. As with everything else on campus,... View Details

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

advantage of the company or engage in some type of misconduct. That could to an extent temper how much of a risk taker you want if you care about the misconduct part.” Companies already use data analytics to... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

March 2003
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A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model

By: Jay O. Light

Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc. View Details

Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Cost of Capital; Negotiation; Capital; Business Model; Economic Systems; Machinery and Machining; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Startups; Equity

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01 Dec 2019
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From Das’s Desk

bring data and analytics technologies to precision medicine today. And this is just a partial list. There’s a new HBS podcast coming soon that will focus on business challenges and opportunities in the era... View Details

Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

as improved teaching and leadership talent, the use of technology in personalized learning, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, wider school choice, and a dramatic upgrade in the quality and use of data View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
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CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin

Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Growth and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Projects; Information Technology; Insurance Industry

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01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

“gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Professor Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to... View Details

05 May 2022
News

Like-Minded

anyone access to content; US-based Jupiter, the leading provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience; and Unifa, which provides AI technology that helps childcare providers track... View Details

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

stakes for advertisers are huge. Americans were exposed to over 5.3 billion online video ads in July 2011 alone, with Hulu generating the highest number of video ad impressions at more than 963 million, according to data from comScore. So... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

businesses, were so momentous. [ ] There is no question, however, that small business intelligence will develop quickly on the coattails of other areas of big data and artificial intelligence. Combining data... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

engineering a transition from a stakeholder to a shareholder-based corporate governance system. Ultimately, however, the corporate governance standards at Infosys are the exception rather than the norm in India. Some data on corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

– Base Salary. Are you curious about typical starting salaries for graduates from HBS? How about signing bonuses or other compensation? We share salary data on our website for full-time and internship roles broken out by industry,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

sustained, recipients will flee these threats or otherwise reshape their network to attenuate the negative psychological effects of the threat. Analyzing four years of peer feedback and social network data from an agribusiness company in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2013
News

Leveraging Female Talent

directors. I was the only man. When I joined a table for a meal, the conversation died—and when I left, it picked up again. I mentioned what had happened when I gave my presentation. The response? That happens to us every single day. I had always understood inequality... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

degree, such as retail salesperson or cashier. One possible explanation for the highly uneven employment outcomes of college graduates is that the supply of graduates exceeds demand, at least for certain fields. The data support that.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

27 Apr 2021
Blog Post

There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

totally against changing my major, so when I got back to school, I started applying to jobs that accepted engineers for non-engineering roles. I applied to Nielsen for a consumer data analytics role, to... View Details

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

shareholders. Having the protagonist in the classroom brought these challenges to life when Vodafone’s then CEO Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) attended the case discussion in February 2018. Colao spoke about the company’s key goals: using big View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

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