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20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

18 Jul 2019
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The Pursuit of Impact

Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is founder and CEO of the financial data firm Bloomberg LP, the former mayor of New York City, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is a... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Optimizing search technology

of product management for search and data at AT&T Interactive, then joined Elsevier, where he is using search to make the world a better place. “I am driven by a passion to understand the needs of people... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck

Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores

19 Sep 2016
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A Streamlined Time Inc.

only do we create this amazing, premium content, and we also produce at scale, but at the same time, we’re actually taking that content and layering on top of it technology and... View Details

22 Aug 2016
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The Future of GE

advances in data collection and analysis to, for example, improve jet engine performance and fuel efficiency. “Everybody who joins G.E. is going to learn to code,” Immelt said.... View Details

12 Jan 2015
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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

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

04 Sep 2019
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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... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

tackled the situation head-on, finding that the data galvanized families rather than angering them. The clinic went on to change its processes and communications based on input from seventeen patient-parent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Certified Check

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner SafeBase Adar Arnon (MS/MBA 2020), CTO and cofounder Al Yang (MBA 2020), CEO and cofounder Concept: SafeBase serves as the go-between solution for... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

progress. And to improve data collection, the School instituted a new, voluntary, self-identification form that case protagonists are asked to complete. “The School and our... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents

fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

experience. Rather than using the data from standardized tests (which are unpopular with both parents and teachers), and applying it to a school or grade or classroom en masse,... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

technology is, there will be residual tasks that only humans can do, and human talent may be even more valuable. The real question is, how big will that set of tasks be?” View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both patients... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class

case beforehand but cannot say that I mastered all the data or how they fit together. Indeed, Professor Abdelal sort of apologized at the top of the class for assigning the case, given its breadth and... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

causes pneumonia in ICU patients. When the drug goes to market, the company plans to have data to back up its price. “If we say, for instance, that we can wean a patient off a ventilator three days sooner View Details