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Big Data's Management Revolution

Harvard Business Review

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Case #1: Using Big Data to Improve Predictions.

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What the Companies Winning at Big Data Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Few industries illustrate the Big Data wars better than the media business. Using their treasure troves of information on online customer viewing habits, they''re designing new TV series that their data tells them will win. The Big Data wars are hardly limited to the media industry.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

For some time now we’ve been living into a smarter world filled with Big Data and analytics, and a more connected one that’s been described as “ the internet of things.” ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences.

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Google Flu Trends’ Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data

Harvard Business Review

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012.

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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business Review

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Our research shows that data breaches sometimes harm a firm’s close rivals (due to spillover effects), but sometimes help them (due to competitive effects).

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An Introduction to Data-Driven Decisions for Managers Who Don’t Like Math

Harvard Business Review

Not a week goes by without us publishing something here at HBR about the value of data in business. Big data, small data, internal, external, experimental, observational — everywhere we look, information is being captured, quantified, and used to make business decisions. Why data matters.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units

Harvard Business Review

Health care teams depend on electronic health records (EHRs) to compile important medical data from innumerable lab tests and medical devices, observations, treatments, and diagnostic codes. What is more, relying only on EHR data greatly limits the insights derived from artificial intelligence algorithms or big data analytics.