Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

’” - Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, June 23, 2008. The sentiment expressed by Chris Anderson in 2008 is a popular meme in the Big Data community. “Causality is dead,” say the priests of analytics and machine learning. When working with Big Data, sometimes correlation is enough.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Big data" analytics with real-world guides let you see big-picture patterns and micro-trends with astonishing precision, in time to seize the day or head off disaster. The big difference this year is not the technology," Joe Rospars, the campaign's social media chief said. But you knew that!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Alibaba has become an almost pure-play bet on one of the world''s big growth stories: Chinese consumer spending." Today it''s a technology company" where people and computers work collaboratively to deliver packages more efficiently. According to Jack Levis, the company''s head of data, one minute per driver per day is worth $14.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Since 2008, according to a McKinsey study , companies have devoted more time and money to social networks and 20% less to e-mail communications. Technology changes fast — remember MySpace and Friendster? As a result, people tend to overhype new technologies and misallocate resources, especially marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

.” The anecdote was too delicious to ignore, seeming to capture all we (think we) know about Zuckerberg—his casual brilliance, his intense competitiveness, his hyper-rational faith in technology, and the polarizing effect of his compelling software. After the 2008 financial crisis, business schools hastened to add ethics courses.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To add to that, business buyers must justify a decision to others in the organization, especially as capital expenditures flow less liberally in many industries since the financial crisis of 2008. Choices are often false. Aligning buying and selling is a process, not a one-shot deal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

As a practitioner and teacher of predictive analytics, my greatest concern is what I call the “big data, little brain” phenomenon: managers who rely excessively on data to guide their decisions, abdicating their knowledge and experience. But what about the “big data, little brain” problem?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Moore left his practice in 2008 to help build a movement around what is called the Ideal Medical Practices or IMP.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

In 2008, the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, convened a commission to go beyond GDP that recommended a broader “dashboard” of variables to measure the health of a nation. In an age of big data, companies have a wealth of information at their fingertips. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2020

The financial crisis of 2008 changed neoliberalism further: the archetype of the big business CEOs, in a tailor-made suit, shifted towards the one of the tech-nerd, wearing t-shirt, jeans and sneakers, while becoming a billionaire. Everybody can make it big time, by launching their own start-up. We are all unicorns.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Big data, it has been said, is making science obsolete. No longer do we need theories of genetics or linguistics or sociology, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote in a manifesto four years ago : "With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.". It's a process that uses data to refine our thinking. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Big data, it has been said, is making science obsolete. No longer do we need theories of genetics or linguistics or sociology, Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote in a manifesto four years ago : "With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.". It's a process that uses data to refine our thinking. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Now, a week after Election Day, a clear trend has emerged in some of these pieces: The campaigns that did well with their big data efforts did well in the election. Two stories in particular call out the impact of big data on campaigns. So what kinds of things was the Obama camp able to do with this big data trove?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

What represents a better predictive statistical model for a prognosticating pollster: a 35% representation of Democrats that faithfully reflect the 2008 presidential election proportions? Do they reflect probabilistic "best practice"? Consider, for example, the oversampling conundrum. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. How will technology impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Big data and voter profiling: the key to voter turnout.

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