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    Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

    Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Kartik Hosanagar, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    • July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
    • Case

    TaKaDu

    By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
    In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Customer Selection; Business Marketing; High-tech Marketing; Enterprise Resource Planning; Water Resources; Water Management; Utilities; Product Positioning; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Australia; Israel
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    • 29 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Zhenyu Lai; Publishing; Technology
    • 2021
    • Article

    To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

    By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
    Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
    Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 22 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    What is FIELD Global Immersion?

    to travel based on where their home country is, and where they have extensive travel or professional experience. With these considerations in mind, country and team assignments (aka: Global Section assignments) are made via an algorithm... View Details
    • 19 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

    When an algorithm recommends ways to improve business outcomes, do employees trust it? Conventional wisdom suggests that understanding the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) can raise confidence in such programs. Yet, new... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    algorithms can lead to unintended bias that harms certain employees and customers, and the company’s reputation (a bias story can go viral on social media within minutes). 5. Design for inclusive and agile problem-solving As they become... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 20 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 20

    Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 03 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    January 3, 2017

    Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 10 Feb 2020
    • In Practice

    6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

    Economic Research. 3. Algorithms are changing the pricing game   “Firms are increasingly using pricing algorithms to set prices, especially in online markets. Pricing View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 23 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 23

    restaurant reviews with Yelp's algorithmic indicator of fake reviews. Using this imperfect indicator as a proxy, we develop an empirical methodology to identify the points in the life cycle of a business during which review fraud is most... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • Article

    Use of Connected Digital Products in Clinical Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis of Clinical Trials

    By: Caroline Marra, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
    Objectives: In an effort to mitigate COVID-19 related challenges for clinical research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidance for the conduct of ‘virtual’ clinical trials in late March 2020. This study documents trends in the use of... View Details
    Keywords: Connected Digital Products; Telehealth; Remote Monitoring; Health Testing and Trials; Research; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Thinking Ahead

    Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard; his research develops tools for machine learning that mitigate bias and enhance privacy. Generative AI poses a greater risk to privacy by its nature, Neel explains. A traditional machine-learning View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 18 Feb 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrey Simonov, Columbia University

    • 24 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University

    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Book

    Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

    more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    Niramai: An AI Solution to Save Lives By: Rembrand Koning , Maria P. Roche and Kairavi Dey March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Founded in 2017, Niramai developed Thermalytix, a breast cancer screening tool. Thermalytix used a high-resolution thermal sensing device and... View Details
    • 15 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

    and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    session will be published soon. CASE STUDY: The Dark Side of AI: Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination Associate Professor Ayelet Israeli + More Info – Less Info This modified case discussion does not require pre-reading. Digitalization and... View Details