The Untapped Potential of Data-Driven Policy
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
4.7 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the 10 Blocks podcast, City Journal contributing editor Aaron Renn and Mike Luca discuss how companies and cities can work together to use data to improve their services.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Ten Blocks podcast, City Journal contributing editor Aaron Wren will interview Mike |
| 0:06.6 | Luca, a professor at Harvard Business School, about his work in helping cities and companies |
| 0:11.2 | become more data-driven in the improvement of their work. |
| 0:16.0 | Luca has ongoing collaborations with Yelp, Facebook, the UK government, the city of Boston, and other municipalities |
| 0:21.9 | and organizations. We're excited to hear about his data-oriented approach to policy in today's |
| 0:27.7 | episode. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson. |
| 0:42.3 | Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary |
| 0:47.5 | with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello, this is Aaron Ren, contributing editor at City Journal, and I'm here special guests. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello, this is Aaron Wren, contributing editor at City Journal, and I'm here today with Harvard Business School Professor Mike Aluka. Professor Luca's work is with cities and with companies |
| 1:06.3 | about helping them become more data-driven, and a lot of it is actually the intersection of those two. |
| 1:11.6 | He works with cities coming together with these digital platform companies to help them create |
| 1:18.2 | value and policy solutions that neither would be able to do on their own. So very excited to speak |
| 1:23.4 | with them today. Mike, thank you for coming in. Thanks for having me. One interesting project that |
| 1:27.8 | you did is you partnered with Yelp and the San Francisco Health Department to do a number of |
| 1:34.8 | interesting things. So why don't you tell us about that? So actually the motivation for this project |
| 1:39.2 | began in L.A. back in 1997. And what had happened in L. in LA is there were a bunch of inspectors who |
| 1:46.7 | are sitting in a room thinking about what to do with the hygiene violations that were coming in. |
| 1:51.2 | So it turns out that in L.A. in San Francisco and in just about every city, restaurants are |
| 1:56.5 | inspected for cleanliness. So you could think about if there's a single rat, that would be a minor |
| 2:01.6 | violation in a restaurant. If there's a bunch of rats, there's a major violation in a restaurant, |
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