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- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Piskorski with information about its members, covering user demographics such as age, gender, height, and body type. The data also included usage patterns—how users learned about one another's profiles, how many profiles they viewed on... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
major things. One, there was a bit of a myth within his company that “we aren’t big, but we are very creative.” Somehow, being big and being creative were considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum. He challenged that... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
clear outcomes, the first one I mentioned. Education-employment data systems in the U.S. today, there’s just some really big gaps. Most states, for example, can tell you—or even this college scorecard can... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
be having the conversation,” he said. “It pulled me in. I felt this is a place I can work, where I can see myself and I can have a big impact, and that we together can have a bigger impact on the larger community.” Drake outlined a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
project,” says Oakes, who brings experience in finance and development to the table, plus a degree in architecture and the ability to flowchart anything. “It takes figuring out where there might be opportunities, and then being willing to do the messy stuff.” Hello... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
interviews to replace a worker the company has a huge amount of data on from personnel files, performance evaluations, etc. When they replace the worker who leaves because of caregiving conflicts, they incur the direct costs, but they... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 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 people make better informed decisions using View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition, experience and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
Series Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation Who Has the Power in the Music Industry? View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
capital.” At the same time, conversations with other practitioners and classmates helped Salas envision a roadmap for how Camino Financial could better leverage data science as it continues to grow. McKenney came to the Business of AI SIP... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
What prevented the crisis that the data in the spring and summer of 2020 predicted? There are three possible explanations. First, the crisis was much shorter and milder than we originally anticipated because the vaccines came out. Second,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may be that the time to profitability isn't that much longer for a biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Reddit. And so I knew how important Reddit was, and I had been a Reddit user as well. So I was pretty excited because I knew how big it was and I’d seen that Steve [Huffman] and Alexis [Ohanian] had gone back to try to sort of right the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
companies seemed really intriguing, but we had a hard time looking past the current portfolio of challenged companies to see that there might be some big winners in these particular sectors. Data Domain went... View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of ‘what is my calling?’ It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
graduates emerge ill-educated, Bistany counters); Investing money in education and schools raises quality (when what's important is how many books a student reads, not how big the library is); and Learning by memorizing is bad (rote... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
will probably be enhanced by the information that others have about us. Will big data overwhelm us, thereby reinforcing such things as brand loyalty? Or will the quality of our search and valuation devices... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518084 Harvard Business School Case 517-077 Big Data in Marketing No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne