A beacon of hope – guest blog by Kyle Jones
Four ways beacons will transform supply chain management by 2020 Bluetooth Low Energy technology, commonly called Beacons or BLE, is poised to change how every order is filled and warehouse managed....
View ArticleStartup Advisor Database
I’ve been interested in start-ups for a while now. So when my friend forwarded me an email several days ago with a link to an application for becoming an advisor for the Harvard Innovation Lab I was...
View ArticleThe Pricing Battle Continues: Walmart vs. Amazon
Apologies for not getting this article to you before the holidays – maybe it would have saved some of you a few bucks. Better late than never, right? Anyway, Walmart instituted an official policy to...
View ArticleUber + Puppy Bowl = Heaven
Looks like Uber is at it again. Yesterday they gave the gift of playing with puppies to people in 10 cities throughout the US. Yes, they technically gave the gift of paying $30 for 15 minutes of...
View ArticleIs the customer really always right?
A friend of mine is a chef and runs a blog with some tremendous recipes. In addition to being a great place to stop by when looking for dinner ideas, John Vito tells fun stories from his life as a...
View ArticleFun with football analytics
I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics lately. This really stems from two rather large datasets I’m crunching (cool stuff – read the research section updates in a couple months). At the same time...
View ArticleA winter without Vans
In my class on Design and Management of Supply Chains my students have to scour the interwebs for interesting articles that are in some way related to class. After finding the article to do a one-page...
View ArticleGE is getting back to its roots
GE announced today that they are selling off GE Capital. I like the idea of focusing on core competencies like industrial manufacturing and simplifying management. This is probably going to save the...
View ArticleUbering around India
WARNING: this post is completely different from all previous posts. Instead of sending you a link for something that I find interesting or smart I’m going to debrief the past couple of days using Uber...
View Article538 on John Nash
This is a great obituary and summary of John Nash’s seminal research brought to you by the guys and gals over at FiveThirtyEight. My favorite part comes at the very end: “But his greatest...
View ArticleBig data meets transportation
FiveThirtyEight has a new podcast out called What’s the Point. It’s an interesting weekly podcast that all data nerds should listen to. I especially liked the episode on using an experiment and the...
View ArticleA Beautiful Introduction to Coding
With the new semester a few weeks away I’ve been going through last year’s notes. This usually results in a few articles/cases being added and some dropped (yes students, I do actually listen and...
View ArticleCan’t we just have driverless cars already?
I’ve probably mentioned this before but I’m a huge fan of driverless cars. You give me the opportunity to buy one right now and I’d almost surely do it (I don’t know the price so I can’t fully commit...
View ArticleA great way to visualize student debt
In my visit to Georgetown this year I’ve been tasked with teaching two six-week MBA electives in the Spring. I’ve been toying with the idea of offering a data visualization course since I think it’s a...
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Tuition Increases
I’m an avid (read: obsessive) reader of FiveThirtyEight and when I saw this recent article on the reasons why tuition is increasing I was immediately drawn in. I have no idea how many times in the last...
View ArticleIs data worth more than oil?
After a long hiatus, I’m trying to bring back Thoughts on Business. Rather than my ambitious one-post-a-day goal, I’m opting for a more realistic once a week. This week’s post comes at the intersection...
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Targeted Ads on Facebook
I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone that Facebook delivers targeted ads. That’s how they make money – they take all this beautiful data you are giving them and show you ads they think...
View ArticleKaggle Data Science Survey 2017
Kaggle is a fantastic company. They are a fun place to get experience dealing with realistic data science problems. You compete with others trying to get the best model. Sometimes it’s “just” for...
View ArticleWould you host someone 357 days a year?
In December, Peter Gomber, Rob Kauffman, Bruce Weber and I had a paper accepted to the Journal of Management Information Systems entitled On the Fintech Revolution: Interpreting the Forces of...
View ArticlePlaying with Tensorflow
Anyone that creates neural nets in probably aware of (and uses) Tensorflow. It’s Google’s open source library for machine learning – it eases the creation and calculation of models using CPUs and GPUs....
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