data analytics - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2022
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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 math meet. For a while I worked... View Details

Keywords: elections; consulting; analysis; polls

25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

algorithms to analyze radiology scans, applying quantitative analytics to marketing movies, and analyzing sales data from an online flash retail site to develop a better pricing model. The teaching and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Feb 2018
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Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have changed: BlackSky, the geospatial... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

08 May 2019
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Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact

the data analytics team, he brought to the nonprofit his solid background in behavioral economics from Emory University and his financial acumen from his trading days. Agarwal’s goal was to use View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2015
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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

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2019
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From Das’s Desk

bring data and analytics technologies to precision medicine today. And this is just a partial list. There’s a new HBS podcast coming soon that will focus on business challenges and opportunities in the era... View Details

Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

name inspired by the Roman philosopher’s civic-minded teachings—has grown into a successful company with offices in Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Washington, DC, offering big data and analytics services to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break... View Details

28 May 2019
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Leading Questions

lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the most difference is the skill of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

shareholders. Having the protagonist in the classroom brought these challenges to life when Vodafone’s then CEO Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) attended the case discussion in February 2018. Colao spoke about the company’s key goals: using big View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2009
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Alumni Books

two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big data and customer insights to... View Details

01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class

(On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s blog about teaching his case, see here.) Since I was unfamiliar... View Details

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

31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

for any teaching apprenticeship—and use that to build out real-time data analytics for states, so that they can see, "If we've identified we still have these gaps in the labor market, what interventions... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

Elective Curriculum, for instance, functions like an R&D lab. In any given year, as many as five to ten new courses are introduced, typically drawing on the leading-edge research of the faculty members teaching them—on topics ranging from View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Better Hiring Through Brain Science

Data-driven hiring practices have taken off. As early as 2010, Google was using talent analytics to help hire the right people. Research supports this strategy; in studies, algorithms outperformed humans in hiring decisions by at least 25... View Details