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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
ask for images of "a man," it is very likely to create an image of a white man, likely because of the data on which it was trained. This issue of perpetuating biases raises a lot of interesting policy... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
ability to recognize patterns with our own ability to interpret them should be a tremendous boon to our creativity. However, if we feel threatened by the machines that we're working with, like they are going to take over the work that we... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
discussions that you remember years later. It started with a terrific setup by Professor David Thomas, then the realization, little by little, of what the case was truly about, followed by deep lessons in interpretation of data and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
it seem available." 22 Photographers explored inventive interpretations of subjects for artistic and commercial ends. These aspirations coincided with those of advertisers who understood the value of high art as a persuasive sales tool... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
sales and cost trends that helped them weave an end-to-end picture of their business’s financial health? This future is appealing because it responds to the fundamental need of small business owners to be able to see and more clearly View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
and Alison Wood Brooks. Excellence Comes From Saying No (31,511) In a new course designed by Frances Frei and Amy Schulman, business and law students help each other define and achieve their own interpretations of success. Lesson one: You... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
because if they determine that the information is false and block it, “receivers” might just interpret this as indicating that the platform is beholden to agribusiness, inadvertently fanning the flames of the debate. “Finding that the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
increased about 20 percent to above the pre-transition level. Meetings also grew bigger and longer, and many were centrally orchestrated, involving employees from multiple departments and different hierarchical levels. “We interpret that... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
Assistant Professors Zoë Cullen and Katherine Coffman; image by John Ritter Assistant Professors Katherine Coffman and Zoë Cullen came up as economists in largely male-dominated environments where, during their years of graduate studies... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
unsuccessful growth strategies, and a brand image — Mazda was once synonymous with innovation and excitement — that had become blurred. To fix those things, we had to win the support of the management team in order to restructure and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin We’ve also seen an easing of the requirements around the state-level licensure of physicians. In the past, if you wanted to View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
of those children. Using data from an online charity that solicits donations for school projects, we found that proposals accompanied by images of older African American students (Grades 6-12) led to fewer donations than proposals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that similar View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Business School Case 805-060 World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne