Publications

October 2021
Case

CrisisReady: Private Data for Public Good

By: Tarun Khanna and James Barnett

In October 2021, CRISISREADY.io considers how and if it should scale operations. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Ethics; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; Intellectual Property; Science; Technology

Educators

11 Oct 2017
Video

Empowering Women Through Personal Health Data

29 Jan 2016
News

What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty

21 Jun 2018
Video

KPMA HBX Live Cracking the Data Aggregation Problem - Gabriel Eichler

2024
Working Paper

Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP

We delineate a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend recommended practices... View Details

September 2024
Teaching Note

Amperity: First-Party Data at a Crossroads

By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-017. View Details

Forthcoming
Article

Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data

By: AJ Chen, Omri Even-Tov, Jung Koo Kang and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman

To mitigate information asymmetry about borrowers in developing economies, digital lenders use machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... View Details

Keywords: Informal Economy; Digital Banking; Mobile Phones; Developing Countries and Economies; Mobile and Wireless Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Credit; Borrowing and Debt; Well-being; Banking Industry; Kenya

Read Now

March 2017
Case

Acumen Fund: Lean Data in 2017

By: Shawn A. Cole and Tony L He

Educators

January 1986 (Revised October 1986)
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (Abridged)

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil

02 Mar 2022
News

How Data Can Make Better Managers

October 1982
Case

Data Resources, Inc.: The Tire-Production Forecast

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction

2014
Other Unpublished Work

Using Big Data to Improve Social Policy

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

04 Jun 2021
News

When an Educated Guess Beats Data Analysis

Article

Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

Keywords: Happiness; Analytics and Data Science; Economics

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May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
Case

Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland

Verne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green strategy. Verne Co-Founder Isaac Kato is tasked with evaluating how the company can most successfully market and sell the... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Startups; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Sales; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Iceland

Educators

September 2022
Article

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details

Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry