Statistical Methods And Machine Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative filtering” algorithms to learn... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

Airbnb began offering a free tool to help all hosts set reasonable rates. The real-time, “smart pricing” program uses machine learning to automatically adjust the property’s nightly fees by considering a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

are much, much greater than they expected them to be. Crew of the Endurance, when spirits were still high. Photo by Frank Hurley, voyage photographer. Copyright Royal Geographical Society, London. The third reason is that the Shackleton story is compelling. Case View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

contradictory to sound judgment. It only emphasizes it . Judgment is an encapsulation of all those elements data, facts, processes, etc that go into decisions from which we have learned in the past." Joe Schmid said: "Our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

below: Git and GitHub Julia Jupyter Notebooks Machine Learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV) R and Python Rclone to sync files... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

it is important to consider the context and development life cycle of an idea when collecting data or running an experiment—what have we really learned from this experience. —Amy Lieb (MBA 2001) Back to top... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

diagnosis and treatment with genomic sequencing and machine learning to solve antibiotic resistance Nix—develops biosensors that analyze... View Details

Keywords: April White

2023
Article

Which Models Have Perceptually-Aligned Gradients? An Explanation via Off-Manifold Robustness

By: Suraj Srinivas, Sebastian Bordt and Himabindu Lakkaraju

One of the remarkable properties of robust computer vision models is that their input-gradients are often aligned with human perception, referred to in the literature as perceptually-aligned gradients (PAGs). Despite only being trained for classification, PAGs cause... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods

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01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

2023
Working Paper

Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li

We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our approach is based on distributionally robust optimization and proceeds in two steps. We first... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods

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01 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

the future after my time at Harvard. At the Kennedy School, the MPA/ID program offered me rigorous quantitative courses about macroeconomics, statistics, and policy making. I learned to evaluate the impact... View Details

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

employees make or how many units they produce. “The objective performance measures don’t take into consideration whether the machine broke down or whether someone is still learning the job,” Gallani... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

other business function. But the ROI is disappointing because much of the training misunderstands how salespeople learn, is classroom-centric, and fails to take advantage of new tools that stimulate peer View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Serguei Netessine. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Honorable Mention for the Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

hybrid teaching and learning. Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2020–2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Isamar Troncoso : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2021.... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

forecasting, linear regressions, and machine learning to better lead your team to long-term success. You will learn how to create a compelling... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of a 2018 Webby Award for Best Use of Machine Learning from the... View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018

HBX Business Analytics

Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: October 9, 2018 - December 6, 2018 View Details

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