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- 2024
- Working Paper
Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
Azoulay, Pierre, Joshua L. Krieger, and Abhishek Nagaraj. "Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 7442, May 2024.
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
analyze and critique, and, therefore, the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
resource planning. See below for “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage.” The rise of the internet unleashed the second wave of IT-driven transformation in the 1980s View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
our sample period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via non-pecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- July 2019
- Teaching Note
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details
Keywords: AT&T; Workforce; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Transformation; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
that foreign companies employ 5.4 million in the United States. Clark is not optimistic about today's societies that have not had a long history of cultural foundations and functioning institutions that... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
schedule at HBS for the first time in years. Such companies, he added, are confident that their compensation packages, opportunities, and support systems rival newer, hotter companies. Larger companies appreciate the benefits of an... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 2023
- Article
Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability
By: Usha Bhalla, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
With the increased deployment of machine learning models in various real-world applications, researchers and practitioners alike have emphasized the need for explanations of model behaviour. To this end, two broad strategies have been outlined in prior literature to... View Details
Bhalla, Usha, Suraj Srinivas, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2023).
- Summer 2024
- Article
The Business Revolution: Economy-Wide Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms
By: Hanna Halaburda, Jeffrey Prince, D. Daniel Sokol and Feng Zhu
In this essay, we identify several themes of the digital business transformation, with a particular focus on the economy-wide impacts of artificial intelligence and digital platforms. In doing so, we highlight specific industries, beyond just the high-profile “Big... View Details
Halaburda, Hanna, Jeffrey Prince, D. Daniel Sokol, and Feng Zhu. "The Business Revolution: Economy-Wide Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 33, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 269–275.
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53461 2017 Making Research Matter: A Psychologist's Guide to Public Engagement Government and Organizations: Transforming Institutions Using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
transforms the experts' probabilities into their corresponding information states, then linearly combines these information states, and finally... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- September 2001
- Background Note
Financial Reporting Environment, The
Provides a framework for understanding the role of financial reporting and various intermediaries as mechanisms for reducing both adverse selection and moral hazard problems in capital markets. Financial reports reduce adverse selection by providing basic information... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Corporate Disclosure; Conflict of Interests
Healy, Paul M., Amy P. Hutton, Robert S. Kaplan, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Financial Reporting Environment, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 102-029, September 2001.
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
New York City. Jose Tolosa (MBA 2004), Chief Transformation Officer for Viacom International Media Networks, gave the keynote address in a fireside chat at the popular annual networking event. According to club co-presidents Lulu Curiel... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
early-life-cycle firms facing high information asymmetries benefit from protections against the market for corporate control by making more valuable long-term investments and reducing myopic behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
real-time information on these individuals, the teams, and their work, in a relatively unobtrusive way, was to have the participants fill out an electronic "Daily Questionnaire" (DQ) for us. Every... View Details
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Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System.
By: Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Adam Balila
Roles provide a key coordination mechanism in peer-production. Whereas one stream in the literature has focused on the structural responsibilities associated with roles, the another has stressed the emergent nature of work. To date, these streams have proceeded largely... View Details
Arazy, Ofer, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, and Adam Balila. "Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System." Art. 1. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 70, no. 1 (January 2019): 3–15.
- 2023
- Article
Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse
By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
Pawelczyk, Martin, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse." Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2023).
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
discussion (MD&A) section. Changes in language referring to the executive (CEO and CFO) team, or regarding litigation, are especially informative for future returns. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman