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Extracting Insights from Vast Stores of Data

By: Sunil Gupta and Rishad Tobaccowala

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December 1997
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Data Supplement The Tax Cut of 1964

By: David A. Moss, Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague

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Aggregate financial ratios: including private company data

How do I find aggregate industry ratios that include private companies? Industry ratios provide a way to compare and analyze the correlation of diverse financial data for an entire industry. They can be used... View Details

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Protecting Data at HBS | Information Technology

Protecting Data at HBS Data Classification Levels ("DCL") To ensure a common understanding, Harvard uses a 5-step scale for data sensitivity. The higher the number, the more... View Details

September 1996
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Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision (Abridged)

By: Robert L. Simons

The managing director of one of ADP's divisions must recommend whether to divest, harvest, or grow the division. Recent performance has been excellent and the near-term outlook for profitability is very promising. Despite some strategic concerns, the strong financial... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Success; Performance Expectations; Strategic Planning; Strategy

June 2020
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Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha

By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers

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2022
Working Paper

The Limits of Decentralized Administrative Data Collection: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

By: Natalia Garbiras-Diaz and Tara Slough

States collect vast amounts of data for use in policymaking and public administration. To do so, central governments frequently solicit data from decentralized bureaucrats. Because central governments use these data in policymaking, decentralized bureaucrats may face... View Details

Keywords: Decentralization; Policy-making; Policy/economics; Policy Evaluation; Governance; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Policy; Public Opinion; Analytics and Data Science; Latin America; South America; Colombia

26 Jul 2017
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The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton; Advertising

08 Nov 2018
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Could Big Data Replace the Creative Director at the Gap?

June 2012
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A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury

One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the wrong answer unless one considers the ways firms compete. Because... View Details

Keywords: Governance; System Shocks; India

02 Apr 2020
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What policy makers are missing from coronavirus — data

2019
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Hospital Adoption of API-enabled Patient Data Access

By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate C. Apathy

01 Dec 1999
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EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage

noted, EMC has spent some $1 billion during the 1990s developing its own software for data storage and retrieval. Emphasis on R&D and quality control has been a key to EMC's... View Details

October 2017
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Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data

By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel and Julia Adler-Milstein

Achieving an interoperable health care system remains a top US policy priority. Despite substantial efforts to encourage interoperability, the first set of national data in 2014 suggested that hospitals’ engagement levels were low. With 2015 data now available, we... View Details

Keywords: Health; Technology; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Data and Data Sets; Technology Networks; Policy; United States

November 2021
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Gaussian Process Subset Scanning for Anomalous Pattern Detection in Non-iid Data

By: William Herlands, Edward McFowland III, Andrew Gordon Wilson and Daniel B. Neill

Identifying anomalous patterns in real-world data is essential for understanding where, when, and how systems deviate from their expected dynamics. Yet methods that separately consider the anomalousness of each individual data point have low detection power for subtle,... View Details

Keywords: Pattern Detection; Subset Scanning; Gaussian Processes; Mathematical Methods