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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
weather services. “This market is not very innovative, and it’s one of the last industries where governments still lead the technology,” Elkabetz says. Most of the industry relies on data from three public... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja analyzes these data to provide actionable insights to public health officials to support responsive and accountable decision making. In the summer of 2021, DeBere’s Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
derives 80 percent of its data from a lengthy questionnaire filled out by the schools, heavily weighting student career services, diversity of corporate recruiting, and starting salaries. With such a wide... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than zero, but beyond that our View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
decisions, many critical choices still come down to human judgment, based on the best available insights. Visiting Professor Davenport and his coauthor relate 12 stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
hundred or so funds investing in these “base-of-the-pyramid” markets, she believes only a handful can show investors a real return on investment. “That is not a sufficient data set for a mainstream... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
in college was mathematics. I’m really interested in politics, and I’m really interested in analytic thinking. Data journalism feels like the ultimate place where politics and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
algorithms and data collected from the individual student (and from other students previously) to create, according to that student's needs and knowledge, a customized road map... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
alumni — and the media, as appropriate. A related survey for Executive Education alumni is also on the drawing board. Plans for the HBS survey were nudged along last spring when Business Week set out for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
persuading others (68 percent). The survey confirmed the expected with regard to the senior positions held by alumni. About 34 percent identify themselves as officer/chairman, and 25 percent as president/principal. The View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
renamed and given a broad purview to collect data on equality metrics like composition, pay, policies, and practices from all private-sector employers in Australia with 100 or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
role in assembling the rescue package and the financial and operating data required to persuade Congress and the Bush administration to help the... View Details