Data interoperability is one of the most pressing innovations needed in the healthcare industry today but has consistently struggled to catch on. Why? Digital Seminar speaker, Julia Adler-Milstein takes a look at the underlying regulatory and market forces that have resulted in this failure to put standardization and interoperability first.
Assortment rotation – swapping out products that are displayed by a store – is a popular business strategy for brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. But when and how should stores release a few products at a time versus revealing an entire product line? This research from Assistant Professor Kris Johnson Ferreira and Visiting Scholar Joel Goh is helping retailers fine tune that answer.
On October 25th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Hilal Atasoy from Fox School of Business at Temple University. Hilal gave a talk called “Impacts of Health IT on Health Care Costs and Quality: The Role of Information and Patient Sharing.”
One of the most pressing issues facing the news & media today is how to navigate and define journalism’s evolving relationship with giant actors in the platform economy like Facebook, Google. As the 2016 presidential election and the skyrocketing of fake news show, these platforms wield enormous power in shaping the societal dialogue around critical issues, and publishers must grapple with the ramifications of being disintermediated.
The advent of Google Street View and machine learning algorithms has enabled us to study urban change in a way that’s unlike anything we’ve quite seen before. In this joint study between HBS, Harvard, and MIT, researchers demonstrate how cities evolve and why it underscores the importance of human capital and education in defining urban outcomes.
Want to make city data more personal and tell a more compelling story to its citizens? Turn it into art! Beyond the obvious cool factor and pleasing aesthetics, this approach highlights the importance of curating data to effectively convey its meaning to an audience.
This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Can big data revolutionize even the fine arts? Today, the number of people in the U.S. who buy art as a percentage of people who can afford art is 3%. Carter Cleveland’s vision is to increase that number by an order of magnitude. […]
This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. See how a 179-year-old company has created the go-to platform for the agricultural industry, allowing John Deere to compete against both other farm equipment manufacturers as well as new Ag Tech entrants. John Deere is the number one farm equipment manufacturer in the […]
