Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The rise of powerful and easy-to-use software (e.g., software as a service) and analytic programming languages (e.g., In big data analysis, you need to know, among other things, about “data distributions.” Suddenly everyone(-ish) can see just about anything about the business. The same issue arises in business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Innovations in spatial sciences, combined with big data, raise the possibility of the insurance industry introducing innovative pricing strategies that induce private real estate owners and local governments to take efforts that together yield a more resilient real estate capital stock. During a time when the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Our forecast shows that the drop in individual premiums – due both to decreased private ownership vehicles and to safer vehicles — will begin in 2026, as large numbers of autonomous vehicles begin to appear, and could be as much as a $25 billion loss for insurers by 2035. Product liability. Insuring against this is a $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

It is particularly effective in automating the so-called “swivel chair” tasks, where data needs to be transferred from one software system to another. Creating a virtual workforce of software robots can help companies streamline operational processes as well as increase the quality and cost-effectiveness of shared services.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

By analyzing its large database of information on how its seeds performed in various types of soil and weather conditions, it built software called NextField DataRX that can give personalized advice to a farmer looking to increase crop yields. “Big data” indeed!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

I’m convinced that the ingredient for the effective use of data and analytics that is in shortest supply is managers’ understanding of what is possible. Data, hardware, and software are available in droves, but human comprehension of the possibilities they enable is much less common. Big data is unruly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity. The barrier of entry into farming technology has dropped, as cloud computing, computing systems, connectivity, open-source software, and other digital tools have become increasingly affordable and accessible.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Citation metrics are widely used in faculty evaluations and routinely come up in tenure reviews. What will the advent of big data mean for management research, given the incentives in our publication process I’ve described above? The data provide a fascinating look into a corrupt organization in action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Policies like this have led to a 50% drop in crime in Merseyside, Liverpool. Families that shop together have long represented a missed data opportunity for retailers, because there has been no way to collect information about children if their mom is the only person interacting electronically with the store at the register.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Its software “learned” how to think by processing vast quantities of data. First, it monetizes downtime.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. Facebook argued that Cambridge Analytica and the professor violated its data polices. But this was not the first time its policies were violated. Facebook, Google, Amazon, and similar companies are “data-opolies.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Research shows that businesses using data-driven decision-making, predictive analytics, and big data are more competitive and have higher returns than businesses that don’t. Because of this, the most ambitious companies are engaged in an arms race of sorts to obtain more data, from both customers and their own employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

A typical response came from economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth from the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. So imagine if Gravity had announced a new investment in software-as-service or said they had a “big data” play. So what are many commentators worried about?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

. “Consumers want to see investment in technology that prevents power outages and reduces the time it takes to turn power back on,” says John McDonald, director of technical strategy and policy development at GE Digital Energy. Prince says that an outage event could be due to a single cause or multiple causes nested together.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Most recent grads are quick to embrace solutions that allow them to work remotely – many of which involve industry-specific software they have not encountered in school. But they do need to be coached on what the company expects of them as its “brand ambassadors,” and now not to run afoul of communications policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Of course, software developers have long since figured out how to export data from one application to another. This is a special challenge when the original developer of the often homegrown legacy systems doesn’t have well-defined interfaces, documentation is scarce, and the software engineers are not available anymore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

From the use of Big Data to improve retirement outcomes to small tweaks to the screens of a leading robo-saving app, we’ve shown that improving the design of the online world can have a big impact on our financial well-being. This number, however, should be viewed as a rough estimate and not a precise calculation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. Targeted government policy could encourage similar initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

For years, the FTC has taken frequent action, for example, when internet companies fail to live up to their own privacy policies or when they engage in objectively deceptive practices. For those who don’t, opt-out opportunities, including ad blocking software, are readily available.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Research shows that businesses using data-driven decision-making, predictive analytics, and big data are more competitive and have higher returns than businesses that don’t. Because of this, the most ambitious companies are engaged in an arms race of sorts to obtain more data, from both customers and their own employees.

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Daniel Burrus

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Big Data and the use of High Speed Data Analytics. Big Data is a term that describes the technologies and techniques used to capture and utilize exponentially increasing streams of data. Separating good data from bad data will also become a rapidly growing service.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

And the growth of big data threatens to make things even worse. Before we get to how pricing algorithms might collude, it’s worth reviewing the state of antitrust regulation in the U.S. Before we get to how pricing algorithms might collude, it’s worth reviewing the state of antitrust regulation in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And That's a Good Thing They're Watching You At Work The Atlantic The term Big Data, admits writer Don Peck, "has quickly grown tiresome." The color-coded rating (red, yellow, or green) generated by an algorithm helps guide the company in its hiring decisions. But what was this "Hipe" and who was behind it?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Social policies support boundary-less work beyond traditional full-time employment. Work and worker segmentation enables increasingly differentiated policies, practices, work designs, pay, and benefits, and workers choose organizations based on the opinions of socially connected peers and opinion leaders.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But the Trump administration’s “America First” policy, with its emphasis on domestically produced goods, seems to put that in doubt. The Trump administration’s trade policies will provide new impetus to the developing patterns of multiple, shorter regional value chains, but the transformation will not happen overnight.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

antitrust policy and enforcement have waxed and waned over four cycles: 1900–1920. Antitrust activity was rare since administrations generally preferred industry-government cooperation (and, during the early New Deal, economic planning and industry codes of fair competition ), over robust antitrust enforcement. 1920s–1930s.

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