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- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
Instilling Production with Principles Instilling Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
more private letter, to choosing to use a credit card rather than cash for our purchases. Make no mistake: Big Data knows more about you than Big Brother ever will! Data-driven... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
is establishing your authenticity in this space," Lipstein said. DrivenData hosts online challenges, usually lasting two to three months, in which data scientists compete to come up with the best statistical models for tricky community... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones. Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Dressing by Number Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Ivy Ross Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
calls the "less glamorous layer" that supports those big brand names, such as digital advertising agencies, ad networks, ad exchanges, customer analytics firms, listening platforms, and other firms both large and small, many of... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
full-time in a high pressure career), I am helping to build a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy for the Asia Pacific region of a major multi-national company. It’s big and complex, and the hiring volumes are daunting, but the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details
H. Ross Perot
A shrewd businessman, Perot built EDS into a large competitor in the computer industry, winning big data processing contracts from companies like Frito Lay and from various government agencies. Perot was... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
new working paper, Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life, Luca and three collaborators argue that cities have never been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
businesses) help in reducing unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and unsocial practices." Several responses delved more deeply into issues associated with bigness and smallness. Edware Hare commented that "Better we should... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
resources. “We have ideas that are well-grounded in both theory and data about what could work, but we have to try them out,” Ely says. Her newest research focuses on the creation and evaluation of a unique leadership development program... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51034 forthcoming Economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
government agencies in 40 states and 60 countries worldwide. “Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna