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Talking to your boss about data

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Here’s what two MIT business analytics students learned in the new From Analytics to Action class.

Mar 23, 2017
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Cisco chief’s lessons in persistence

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John Chambers on enduring highs and lows, the imperative of digitization, and why Flip cameras didn’t work out.

Mar 20, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

In health care data, a gap between point of care and everything else

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In a $3.2 trillion industry, nobody can draw a complete picture of a patient’s life and health.

Feb 28, 2017
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The simple lessons you can still learn from sports analytics

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MIT Sloan’s Ben Shields explains how franchises use data to make personnel, business decisions.

Feb 9, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Combining data with a personal touch, Fitnescity Lifestyle Management targets crowded wellness market

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An MIT Sloan alumna’s startup brings analytics and 3-D body scanning to personalized wellness

Dec 22, 2016
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How to win in a winner-take-all world

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Analyst R “Ray” Wang’s lessons from the digital revolution.

Dec 2, 2016
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Bringing big data to drug discovery

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twoXAR, co-founded by MIT Sloan alumnus, uses machine learning to identify drug candidates in minutes, not years.

Sep 28, 2016
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With more voter data than ever, why can’t anyone call this race?

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“You can build models and you can use data science, but sometimes the conclusion can be: ‘Be careful.’”

Sep 23, 2016
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How will an on-demand economy work?

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As Uber, Airbnb, and others grow, answering questions about employment and benefits becomes urgent

Mar 17, 2016
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Four business lessons from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 

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Takeaways from the Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox, and, of course, Nate Silver

Mar 15, 2016
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