Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

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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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? Along with a bunch of other, more headline -grabbing numbers , the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning that 14.4 million Americans were self-employed in January. Of those, 9.2 million were incorporated.

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