Three startups explored the growth of big data at the 2012 Conference on Entrepreneurship. Big Data is the latest industry that entrepreneurs are exploring. It involves collecting, storing, and analyzing personal and other data generated by an increasingly digitalized world. Three startups presented their views on the topic at the Stanford GSB 2012 Conference on …
Amy Zegart, a Stanford professor, argues that predictions are becoming more accessible. In the coming days, President Obama will be reviewing intelligence. He will be poring over data and asking for expert opinions. He will also examine history, consider options, and combine intuition with experience. No, it’s not to launch a drone attack, intervene in …
Stanford GSB hosted its inaugural Sports Innovation Conference, where some of the top sports business leaders in the world shared their perspectives. Vivek Ranadaive, the leader of the Sacramento Kings’ ownership group, asked this question at the Stanford GSB Sports Innovation Conference’s keynote opening in early April. “Fans paint their faces purple. Fans will evangelize.” …
Stanford GSB Professor warns against over-reliance on data in making education decisions and argues that a nuanced approach is needed, which blends crucial practitioner insights with data. In recent years, The education innovation community has adopted data to make decisions and design programs. This is a positive shift for academic researchers, but some feel it …
We all know that technological innovations are crucial for prosperity, and they’re changing our lives unprecedentedly. But how can we tell if this pace is faster than during Thomas Edison’s time? Some economists claim that today’s information revolution has a much smaller impact on our daily lives than the inventions in the late 19th century. …
In his latest book, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Techopen Window jou,rnalist Franklin Foeropen paints an alarming picture of an era in which only a few giant technology companies – Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (aka GAFA ) – exert extraordinary power over an information economy. They can disrupt business models, decimate …
Silicon Valley and Washington have both been in a rage over revelations that Cambridge Analytica – a pro-Trump “psychographic” consultancy – had a hold of personal information on 87,000,000 Facebook users. While privacy and ethics have been the focus of much of this debate, there is still a question: Is psychological targeting an effective tool …
The Economics of Technology Professor of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Susan Athey, says there is no more hot topic at the intersection of business and technology than the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning. She says, “You read about it in the newspapers how these sentient robotics will take over the world.” If you …
Try to get a venture capital company to reveal its secrets. Stanford Graduate School of Business Finance Professor Ilya Strrebulaev set out to solve this challenge when he created the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative. The initiative has steadily accumulated an extensive and unique database to determine how the VC industry works. Strebulaev and his co-researchers have …
The price companies pay for ad space on TV shows depends on the number of people who watch the show. This is supposed to tell them how many “ad exposures” they are getting. When the commercials start, many of us will change the channel. Or you can hit the fast-forward button. Or we can pull …
