big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

there are also amazing opportunities, a viewpoint that is closer to Mark Zuckerberg’s thinking. But I’d like to see people who are interested in these big questions look beyond the media buzz. Don’t listen to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research conducted by Malhotra and Luca has... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

15 Sep 2020
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Lifting Fallen Families

awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that data... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go

the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology uses... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the modern era of venture... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

on the next big thing, Dahod marries technological understanding with management expertise to solve high-tech problems and build cutting-edge companies. With five advanced degrees and five successful startups under his belt, Dahod... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

21 Nov 2024
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Mother Nurture

was a big priority.” Since refining the model and establishing a team of clinicians, Seven Starling has been reaching and serving women via its primary acquisition channel of doctor referrals. To measure impact—“in true HBS fashion,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

whether it should be fed to children, and the credibility of European research indicating raw milk has important healing powers. It answers them in nonideological terms by focusing on real-world data and taking issue with wild claims on... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

whatever reason, when God created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we’re trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

out, I could really excite and empower people to do great things.” Hill notes that many of the people under Swan eventually got big promotions that reflected how much they were able to learn, adding, “Taran created capabilities in the... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed decisions using View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

raising another big round of venture capital might have fueled even faster growth, using other people’s money to get as big as possible as quickly as possible was never her goal. She is not alone. Even as... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

diversification efforts for companies in business environments where big may, in fact, be beautiful. "Focus is successful only when the existing economy provides the necessary institutions to support it. A company's strategy should be... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

modern regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower program that was passed into... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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