Center for Analytics and Technology in Society
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Thought leadership and practical insights into the use of analytics and technology in society, especially health care, media and entertainment, and platform businesses.
Who We Are
The Center conducts research and outreach around the transformations that modern information and computing technologies cause at the individual (worker, consumer, patient, employee, artist), unit (business, department, clinic, hospital), market, and societal levels.
The Center’s footprint covers understanding and anticipating these transformations; impact assessment and attribution; business strategy for transformative technologies; design and execution to optimize their effects; and competitive policy and market outcomes.
Research Pillars and Projects
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Entertainment
How new technologies, big data and business analytics are transforming the business of producing and distributing entertainment products.
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Platform Business
Strategic and operational problems in management of platform businesses, applications of platform thinking, transformational impact of platforms.