What this Wharton Professor Wants Students to Know About Customer Centricity

Through two elective courses, an elaborate simulation, two books, and a Global Business Week in Finland and Sweden, Peter Fader offers students many opportunities to learn how customer centricity can drive profits. Read more about Fader's teaching and ventures.

Marketing

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Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down

18 years after Apple launched the music download store, the company announced that iTunes is shutting down. Peter Fader sat down with Knowledge@Wharton to discuss the demise of iTunes and the takeaways from the Worldwide Developers Conference.

Marketing

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Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?

The existence of even a single AI with general intelligence would be a challenge to the ways human beings have seen their place in creation. "What, then, is to be done from a regulatory standpoint about the prospects of an “emergent” AI with general intelligence?" asks Jonathan Moreno.

Medical Ethics and Health Policy

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Penn Medicine Releases Free, ‘Self-Service’ AI Tool for Data Analytics

The Penn Medicine Institute for Biomedical Informatics has launched a free, open-source automated machine learning system for data analysis called Penn AI. Jason Moore's team has taken three years to develop this system so that it can be approachable by anyone, regardless of their training or experience.

Biomedical Informatics

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$15 Million Anonymous Gift for Analytics at Wharton

Wharton announced the establishment of Analytics at Wharton, uniting the School’s teaching, research and industry engagement initiatives that use big data to improve decision-making and generate actionable business insights. The inaugural Vice Dean for Analytics will be Eric Bradlow.

Economics
Education
Marketing
Statistics

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Gig Economy Protections: Did the EU Get It Right?

According to Gad Allon, the gig economy requires regulation to ensure that there is enough competition in the market, not only on the customer side but also on the firm side or on the contractor side. In this podcast, he discusses the EU’s new rules protecting gig economy workers.

Operations Information and Decisions

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Knowledge by the Slice: Observing the Invisible

At a Knowledge by the Slice lecture, part of a lunchtime series that offers topical talks by insightful faculty experts, Bhuvnesh Jain discussed what it means to pursue the mystery of dark matter and the use of some of the world’s largest telescopes to search for it.

Physics and Astronomy

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Beyond Clicks: Getting the Most out of Big Data

In the deep ocean of big data, it’s hard for companies to know what’s true or even relevant to their operations. The latest research from Hamsa Bastani can help companies navigate the waters by offering a better way to use predictive analytics.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Connecting The Dots

For many people, the Internet is a centerpiece of social and professional activity, but billions of people around the world still lack access to it. Christopher Yoo launched the 1 World Connected project to identify, analyze, and share innovative supply- and demand-side approaches to connecting new communities.

Law

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Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling

The work at the 2017 Warren Center co-sponsored conference on Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling has led to a special issue of the Journal of Econometrics, currently in press. Read the introduction from author Francis Diebold.

Economics
Finance
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

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What this Wharton Professor Wants Students to Know About Customer Centricity

Game-changer to Digital Dustbin: Why iTunes Is Shutting Down

Should Pandora’s Brain Be Regulated?

Penn Medicine Releases Free, ‘Self-Service’ AI Tool for Data Analytics

$15 Million Anonymous Gift for Analytics at Wharton

Gig Economy Protections: Did the EU Get It Right?

Knowledge by the Slice: Observing the Invisible

Beyond Clicks: Getting the Most out of Big Data

Connecting The Dots

Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling