Publications

26 Feb 2014
News

Big Data in the Driver's Seat

27 Sep 2021
News

Uncovering the Secret to Clean Data

17 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Faisal Z. Ahmed

November 2023
Article

Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space

By: René Raab, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener and Bjoern Eskofier

The European Commission's draft for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to empower citizens to access their personal health data and share it with physicians and other health-care providers. It further defines procedures for the secondary use of electronic... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Industry

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18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO of Little Rock, Arkansas-based... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

09 Oct 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Where the Cloud Rests: The Economic Geography of Data Centers

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang

May 2018
Article

Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca

Data from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, And Changes; Geographic Location; Local Range; Transition; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics; Economic Growth; Forecasting and Prediction

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

August 1982 (Revised January 1989)
Teaching Note

Perkin-Elmer: Data Systems Group, Teaching Note

By: Robert J. Dolan

October 1982
Case

Data Resources, Inc.: The Tire-Production Forecast

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction

August 1992 (Revised February 1994)
Background Note

Note on Data Protection in Sweden

By: Lynn S. Paine

28 Nov 2016
News

One Obstacle to Curing Cancer

Keywords: cancer; data sharing; precision medicine; healthcare; technology; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

March 2017
Case

Acumen Fund: Lean Data in 2017

By: Shawn A. Cole and Tony L He

Educators

Article

International Data on Measuring Management Practices

By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen

We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., Management and Organizational Practices Surveys).... View Details

Keywords: Surveys; Strength and Weakness; Management Practices and Processes