Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

In a week when People magazine announced its annual “Sexiest Man Alive,” I can’t help recalling an HBR article Tom Davenport and I published last year that was titled along similar lines. We called it “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.”. And there are pioneers from early data science groups at Yahoo!

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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

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. It went viral. But leaders ultimately reflect the culture of their times.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

Sure, you may say, tech-savvy startups are doing great, but old-line publishers, like magazines and newspapers are doomed. It’s true that magazines in the U.S. Clearly, there’s no shortage of opportunities in online publishing. Aren’t they? So it shouldn’t be surprising that many newspapers have struggled.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Here are three lessons from the rise of Netflix that apply to every company: Big data is powerful, but big data plus big ideas is transformational.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Forbes has embraced online collaborative publishing as it adds a substantial online presence to its traditional print magazine. Healthcare organizations are implementing electronic health records systems so they can migrate from islands of medical services to sharing patient data across care providers. Embrace Industry Disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The average hourly wage in management and technical consulting is $37.44; in legal services it’s $37.07. And look who’s winning that jobs race: As for the headline, yeah, yeah: most of the people in “management and technical consulting” jobs probably don’t have MBAs. Which is a lot higher than the $27.49

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Our research, which has involved studying more than 50 international organizations in a variety of industries, has identified an alternative approach to big data and analytics projects that allows companies to continually exploit data in new ways. But those moves will not be enough. This blog post was excerpted from Donald A.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

The strategy appears quite profitable — some years ago Wired magazine predicted that, by 2010, half the value in the delivery of a shipping container, from half-way around the world, would lie in the data associated with the contents.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

With the explosion of new media and technologies and the rise of empowered (and skeptical) consumers, marketers are finding that the old bag of tricks no longer works so well. Also from the magazine, Wes Nichols dives into Advertising Analytics 2.0 , Sunil Gupta says For Mobile Devices, Think Apps, Not Ads , and Jeffrey F.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The Internet of Things is definitely becoming a Thing, in the same way that big data’s a Thing or the sharing economy’s a Thing. And the thing about a thing that becomes a Thing is, it’s easy to lose sight of the things that made it a thing before everyone declared it the Next Big Thing that will change everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

The halls of every marketing organization are filled with rumors about the new crop of hires — computer scientists, math majors and big data experts. As you can imagine, the media world blew the story up with articles on thousands of blogs, in hundreds of magazines and even on ABC.

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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. Contrast the ORCA beaching with the Time magazine report inside the Obama data center.

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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? In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling.

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