Last month, Wharton announced it will offer a Business Foundations Specialization series through Coursera, combining the School’s highly successful four-course Foundation Series with a Capstone Project that allows participants to apply their knowledge to real-world business problems.…Read More
Wharton Magazine has a great roundup of the Wharton Data and Analytics Club (WDAC) data visualization hackathon. Organizer and MBA student, Isabelle Park, reviews the importance of communicating findings to different stakeholders and how she built this into the Hackathon WDAC hosted on February 27.…Read More
New speakers confirmed. Hear case studies from Google, Netflix, Teradata Corporation, Jamba Juice, Buxton, Nielsen, Cablevision, USAA, and MLB.com. April 30, Philadelphia.…Read More
On Tuesday, February 24, Mark Pincus (W’88), founder of Superlabs and Zynga held a Leadership Lecture co-sponsored with AI and Analytics for Business (AIAB) in Philadelphia with over 200 students in attendance.…Read More
Making Big Data Small Data. In an interview with Jonathan Lerner of Wharton’s Data & Analytics Club, AIAB’s Eric Bradlow discusses data compression, how it makes for a better (and more creative) approach to analysis, and how it may be the future given privacy concerns.…Read More
If you’ve ever spent a weekend binge-watching a season of “Breaking Bad” or some other series on streaming video, you can take comfort in the fact that you’re certainly not alone. …Read More
According to Fader, Barnes & Noble’s turning point will be in recognizing who its competition actually is. “If they want to be top of the mind when it’s time to go out of the house or the dorm and study, there is a lot of promise there,” he said.…Read More
Why are certain pieces of online content more viral than others? The emergence of social media (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) has boosted interest in word-of-mouth and viral marketing. But while it is clear that consumers often share online content, and that social transmission influences product adoption and sales, less is known about why consumers share content or why certain content becomes viral.…Read More
