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Vungle Inc. Improves Monetization Using Big-Data Analytics
By: Bert De Reyck, Ioannis Fragkos, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Casey Lichtendahl, Hammond Guerin and Andrew Kritzer
The advent of big data has created opportunities for firms to customize their products and services to unprecedented levels of granularity. Using big data to personalize an offering in real time, however, remains a major challenge. In the mobile advertising industry,... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Monetization; Data and Data Sets; Advertising; Mobile Technology; Customization and Personalization; Performance Improvement
De Reyck, Bert, Ioannis Fragkos, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Casey Lichtendahl, Hammond Guerin, and Andrew Kritzer. "Vungle Inc. Improves Monetization Using Big-Data Analytics." Interfaces 47, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 454–466.
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About Us Statistical Resources 8ms Technical Papers Our statisticians have compiled a few useful technical notes on various topics. In addition, the following document organizes many of these notes by topic... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
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Dedicated to a public service mission
details about the projects in which he is involved. The goal is “job growth and to ensure we can have a more viable middle class.” “We’re dedicated to improving people’s lives,” he says. Hunt’s commitment to community began while serving as a surface warfare officer in... View Details
- September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
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Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh." Harvard Business School Case 586-013, September 1985. (Revised July 2007.)
- 14 Dec 2010
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Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
holdings--estimates of the amount held by US public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess of $20 billion--are thought to result from the absence of investment... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
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Institutions and Human Capital Development in the Indian IT Services Industry
Una's dissertation research examines how institutional contexts shape human resource practices and human capital development in knowledge intensive industries and their implications for long-term industry development and competitiveness.
Una uses field,... View Details
- September 2018
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Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services
By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Work-scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks... View Details
Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Industry
Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services." Management Science 64, no. 9 (September 2018): 4389–4407. (Working paper available here. Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Competition of the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management. Featured in Forbes, Quartz, and Inc.)
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About Us Usage and Policies 16ms For information about our terms of service and acceptable use policies, please see the below pages. Eligibility Except where noted in our terms... View Details
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About Us Meet the Team Contact Us Global Expertise The Multimedia Development team has extensive experience with the case method and deep expertise in the use of pioneering,... View Details
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Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
power for more than 20 years). Vallée and Pérignon analyzed how the politicians used the loans—whether they had invested the money in equipment or services for the city, or View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
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What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still... View Details
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About Us Linking Policy About Us What We Do Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners,... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
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Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Renting or Rental; Corporate Governance; Global Strategy; Failure; Singapore; Hong Kong
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
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Software Tools R & Python 2ms The HBSGrid uses a combination of Anaconda, miniConda (a slimmed down Anaconda), and software modules to provide feature-rich environments for R and Python . This page briefly discusses need-to-knows for each... View Details
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Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
simplicity and low cost of a tool like this.” The benefits of the new service outweigh the annual $750 fee, says Rogelio Fussa, assistant director and club liaison for Alumni Programs at HBS. As more clubs sign on, the annual fee will... View Details
- 15 May 2013
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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green
- 01 Oct 2007
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Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance:Evidence from Indian Software Services
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RCS Offboarding Checklist - Research Computing Services
destroyed. If you plan to purchase your HBS laptop, TSS will remove all HBS productivity software for you; you may need to remove any HBS-licensed research software yourself. HBSGrid cluster– Have you requested a guest user account (if needed)? Should you need to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2013
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- 13 Sep 2013
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