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- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
think about binge-watching The Good Place. “You look for prior patterns and use them to discover what the future may hold,” says Teodorescu. As algorithms have become increasingly advanced, they may start knowing us better than we know... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
and the games, Polli notes, is like the difference between the scattershot of a dot matrix printer and the precision of a laser printer. HBS students were the first data source; stats from their game-play helped Polli and Yoo to build... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
they're really disassociated from the brain and the brain's neuroanatomy. They are very focused on what is really decades old algorithms that they have advanced and applied data and applied technology to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
the US Small Business Administration says we are on the brink of a radical transformation. Fintech players like Amazon and Square, powered by big data and AI, have the potential to bring about a golden age for small business, she says,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,”... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
municipal data from Boston, the authors found that their algorithm accurately detected how blocks changed between 2007 and 2014. Google's car-mounted cameras drive the world over recording street scenes.... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
jointly by SEAS and Harvard Business School, while Shu was in the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program, run by SEAS, HBS, and the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences. The two got to chatting, laying the seeds for HiHome, a start-up that uses scoring... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
other end of the spectrum, researchers can obtain false positives by running statistical tests over and over until they find the result they are looking for, or by excluding data after looking at how doing so might affect the results. The... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
and soft—when formulating your algorithms. You also must consider the long-term implications of the data the algorithms incorporate to make sure they're not focusing nearsightedly on short-term outcomes. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
its "Zestimates," a proprietary algorithm that generates estimates of home values. But, like Expedia, Zillow's entire culture is based on data and analysis—not surprisingly, since the company was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
employing an engineering team to create a web application that applies natural language processing, machine learning, big data, and data visualization algorithms to make conflicts with trademarked names... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
IBISWorld.com. Piskorski decided to home in on OKCupid, a general-interest dating site that boasts more than 3 million members. The site allows all of its users to browse each other's profiles, but uses comprehensive quizzes and View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
that compared to an algorithm that has access to much more data on worker outcomes and has been trained to recognize these patterns.” Studies in other settings have shown that many things we typically think... View Details