Big data’s diverse applications for the modern data deluge span problems and industries. While offering titular possibilities, is big data an area of serious corporate inquiry or is it a source of hype? This research seeks to add to the growing body of management literature on big data. C-suite architecture additions of a CIO and/or a CTO demonstrate an environment for and increased BDA mindset...

In the Showtime TV series “The Big C,” the main character is diagnosed with a deadly cancer—the “Big C.” In response, this suburban housewife suddenly takes out-of-character, impulsive actions—from buying a bright red sports car to putting a large pool in her tiny backyard to having an affair with a painter. She denies the severity of her disease and undergoes alternative treatment (such as bei...

The story of hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy is about to add one of its biggest chapters. From the serendipitous beginnings in the 1980s when investigators noted that interferon improves liver enzymes in non-A, non-B hepatitis, to the discovery and naming of the hepatitis virus, to the addition of ribavirin, to the pegylation of interferon, and now to the first direct-acting antivirals (DAA), t...