Analytics and Data Science - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
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Faculty Books

Professor Davenport and his coauthor offer practical tools to improve understanding of data analytics and enhance managerial thinking View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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... View Details

15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI

they're really disassociated from the brain and the brain's neuroanatomy. They are very focused on what is really decades old algorithms that they have advanced and applied View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

23 Oct 2019
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Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

01 Mar 2005
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Desert Dust-Up

Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

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... View Details

Keywords: elections; consulting; analysis; polls

01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

Ridhi Tariyal (MBA 2009) was in her early 30s when she grew curious about her chances of having children one day. “I didn’t want to wake up and learn that my opportunity had passed,” says Tariyal, then a genomics researcher with a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jan 2010
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Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

Former President, Yahoo! Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.S., Computer Science and Economics, Tufts University, 1984 On Leadership: “Great leaders don’t limit the... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique

opportunity to grow and engage its user base by tapping into data and analytics and could add value to Nix in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

21 Oct 2021
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DraftKings Backs New VC Firm

and gaming, media and fan engagement, human performance, and data analytics and... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck

number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

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... View Details

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

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... View Details

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

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

particular issue or set of questions to be explored through experimentation, observation, and analysis. The principal investigators are assisted by doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, View Details

06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

teach more digital content to our students. That means more courses on statistics, data analytics, machine learning, and fairness and ethics in AI. View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly... View Details

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 View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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