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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
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
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
for these nonemergencies, the city relaunched it in August. The rebranded BOS:311 allows users to report a wider variety of nonemergency issues through more mediums, including Twitter. “There is a big difference between nominally... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
innovation becomes clear, and acceptance is the eventual outcome. For patients, movement along this timeline requires a high comfort level with the fact that this new data will not be used against them in any way. Will the recent... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of HBS alumni and faculty, and by the School itself as an institution. Excerpts from the book follow. The Big Bang Fifty years ago, Kiechel writes, corporate strategy did not even exist as a concept, let alone as the foundational element... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
United States became a big part of the phenomenon. Twitch, which launched in 2011 as the YouTube of gaming, was designed for watching and streaming video game play and connecting with like-minded players. It was also the perfect vehicle... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
of like knowing when and how and who to do it with and all those other things are actually quite hard, right? So I think the data and analysis is always critical, right? And doing good work is always critical. And that helps inform what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee drew on recent World Bank survey data on 3,899 Chinese firms. He and HBS professor Tarun Khanna have analyzed the data to find predictive indicators for business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
resources. “We have ideas that are well-grounded in both theory and data about what could work, but we have to try them out,” Ely says. Her newest research focuses on the creation and evaluation of a unique leadership development program... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
the big picture really quickly, whereas it takes me longer. I think celebrities don’t always experience pushback, but I give that, which she respects, and she does it with me. What happens when you disagree about an investment’s... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration and sharing of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
will play a much better game. It’s no different with entrepreneurship.” A second breakthrough was establishing that entrepreneurial activity is not limited to start-ups but can take place in existing organizations, old or young, big or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help. "Accountability and impact are the two... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
competitions and judging by a panel of global HBS Alumni Angels Association members narrowed the field. Four alumni teams pitched at the finale: ConnectHealth; Cobli, a car fleet logistics data company based in Brazil; EverlyWell, a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
formerly was CEO of bioMérieux. He joined the company in 2011 after seeing impressive data indicating Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat rare diseases and cancer—using technology that was inexpensive to produce. The company is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you really didn’t have to look much... View Details