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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
The spotless, brightly lit corridors of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital are filled with the ebb and flow of the human condition —people from around the globe and around... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
the Complaint Department The municipal needs of Boston residents vary by the season. “In winter, it’s snow,” says Lauren Lockwood (MBA 2014), the city’s chief digital officer. In spring, it’s potholes. In summer, it’s potholes and student... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
tell a tale, the unassuming Robinson is a kind of John Grisham of the corporate financial world. For the past 25 years, he has been teasing out the narrative thread behind companies' financial View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed venture capitalists,” she says. “They’re not romantic at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
Back to School for Big-City Mayors
on July 17, is bringing together 40 mayors, 30 of them from American cities, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Phoenix, and Mobile. The concept behind the program is to teach the mayors how to think like a CEO in handling everything from... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and observation when evaluating... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers serving as independent contractors... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
companies that offer it, but almost immediately Auerbach recognized two fundamental problems. First, no one knew how to talk about flexibility. Second, no one had the data to understand the business benefits View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
of clear guidance as to which immigrants would be affected by the public charge rule, Boundless also used its data to create a tool for applicants to assess their risk. Ever-changing immigration policy is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
But they didn’t turn them off, and because that data had been stored in the memory of the computer—not necessarily on it—it was on the hard drives, but wiped. Seeing their memory, hot and live, the malware... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
whether it should be fed to children, and the credibility of European research indicating raw milk has important healing powers. It answers them in nonideological terms by focusing on real-world data and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
data on trending revenue and customer delivery. We also share successes in biweekly emails from the CEO and in quarterly all-company meetings. Each starts with broad business metrics and then goes into a deep dive on a particular function... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
"consumers now understand that business needs their personal data and will pay for it. We see ClickRebates as the leader in this emerging field of consumer-to-business e-commerce; we've even trademarked a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
that will continue. You can’t fall off the floor, as they say. You have to think about historical data in the context of that information and how investing will be impacted. Another point is that the market... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Internet” — a term GE uses to describe how to use software and data to make machines smarter and more interactive. “He was miles ahead of the world in terms of redefining us as... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
inequalities in patient care. In 1998, the foundation’s advocacy encouraged the New Zealand government to institute free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to further extend those screenings... View Details