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May 11 2022
Testimonial

Differentiating the Value of AMP and GMP

Video

Introduction to Data Science for Business

March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Transparent Value LLC

By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.

Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

15 Nov 2018
News

Algorithms tame ambiguities in use of legal data

Video

Introduction to Data Science Ready

15 May 2012
News

The Value of a Business Degree

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

June 2002
Background Note

Note on the Value of Life

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Carlos Gonzalez

This case summarizes how American courts measure damages in wrongful death suits. Various standards are compared, as are their implications for business management. View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Courts and Trials; Business or Company Management; Standards; Negotiation; United States

2019
Article

Hospital Adoption of API-enabled Patient Data Access

By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate C. Apathy

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May 8, 2020
Article

Which Covid-19 Data Can You Trust?

By: Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee and Tarun Khanna

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a tidal wave of data, but how much of it is any good? And as a layperson, how can you sort the good from the bad? The authors suggest a few strategies for dividing the useful data from the misleading: Beware of data that’s too broad... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Analytics and Data Science

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September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management

By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively

In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services firm Great Lakes Banking Group (GLBG) on its plans to upgrade its data centers. The bank’s data processing and storage systems were in need of an update, and... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Infrastructure; Operations; Information Management

26 Feb 2019
Podcast

AI and the value of expertise

AI has been predicted to replace humans in professions ranging from customer service representatives to medical doctors. But many have pointed out elements of human work that would be difficult to imagine being performed by AI. HBS Professor Raj Choudhury discusses his... View Details

Jan 09 2013
Testimonial

GMP: The Value of the Program

04 Feb 2019
News

Calculating the Value of Impact Investing

Keywords: by Chris Addy, Maya Chorengel, Mariah Collins and Michael Etzel; social impact investing; economic development; Bridgespan

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

records on borrowers, and put the data through a random forest regression, a type of analysis known for producing good predictions that can be readily understood. When they tested the resulting model, the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

Article

The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

By: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim and Belen Villalonga

Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a... View Details

Keywords: Diversification Discount; Institutions; Labor Market; Competition; Human Capital; Diversification; Value; Capital Markets

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12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

Stellar teamwork and star talent will be on display February 1 at the National Football League's annual Super Bowl, in Tampa Bay, Florida. For football fans, the much-awaited Super Bowl is the highlight of the year. Minus the dramatic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

August 2019 (Revised November 2022)
Case

Paradigm Capital Value Fund

By: Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi

Karl Jan Erick Hummel had founded Paradigm Capital Value Fund in 2007 together with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Greenwald, an expert in value investing and now chairman of the fund. The fund followed the principles of value investing to their target... View Details

Keywords: Investment Activism; Investment Portfolio; Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry

February 1992 (Revised March 1992)
Case

Telefonica de Argentina S.A.: Analysis of Limited Data

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; Argentina