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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a fintech solution. Hive Health Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022) Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021) Business Track Co-Winner A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, &... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

realm of design and human interaction with everyday objects. Norman provides thought-provoking insights on usability and human-centered design. The book is relevant to my own research on visual analytics. Picture this: designing an View Details

23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

tech-enabled elements of their platform. On the digital side, for example, they are experimenting with machine-learning algorithms that can score exercises and quizzes automatically and “nudge” parents to keep them engaged in the program.... View Details

20 Apr 2020
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19

“no contact” delivery protocol. With our system, volunteers get to decide when and how much to help. Additionally, we have decided to build a matching algorithm to pair volunteers to requests. We looked around at some of the different... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

digital strategy expert Venkat Venkatraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best (create physical products) with what digitals do best (use algorithms and AI to parse expansive,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

responsiveness seems to have an even bigger impact on profitability,” Gupta says. Don’t change customers, change algorithms Applying both factors to data from a European television service company, for example, the researchers were able... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

26 Jul 2022
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Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

information. As such, the professors devised an algorithm to identify how review text on Yelp is associated with regulatory inspections. They found that food handling violations are predicted by words like “sick” and “nauseous,” while the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

08 May 2023
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How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

case normally. That is likely driven by the algorithms used, which tend to pick up on momentum, Kerr says. Given this research, platform operators could keep an eye out for this trend and look at ways of compensating for it in the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Tsedal Neeley | About

and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the age of... View Details

13 May 2022
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Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

by the same firms from 2008 and 2017. They then trained a machine-learning algorithm on the text, letting it independently decide which words were most highly associated with eventual violations. The words that rose to the top ranged from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

big-name players in impact investing is an opportunity but also a risk. TPG Rise is defending against that risk by developing a detailed algorithm to forecast and “underwrite” impact using academic evidence. This raises many questions... View Details

2023
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Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance

By: Alexander O. Everhart, Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu and Pinar Karaca-Mandic

Importance: Most regulated medical devices enter the U.S. market via the 510(k) regulatory submission pathway, wherein manufacturers demonstrate that applicant devices are “substantially equivalent” to 1 or more “predicate” devices (legally marketed medical devices... View Details

Keywords: Recalls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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Enrico Ferrari

technology, he spent nights and weekends learning how to code; soon, he started developing his own algorithms to scale and automate digital marketing campaigns, a skill he applied to successfully expand a classifieds business into fifteen... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Silicon Valley's culture as a whole—‘an algorithm solves everything’ and ‘just put it out and we'll fix it later.’ In traditional media, for example, considerable debate can go into the production of a program ... With YouTube, Facebook,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Retailers" with Ron Berman ( Marketing Science , 2022). Shunyuan Zhang : Nominated for the 2022 John D. C. Little Award for “Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb” (... View Details

13 Nov 2019
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Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

managers, HR specialists, and data scientists work together to use data to improve employee-related decisions and practices. New analytic approaches and new sources of digital data are starting to revolutionize this field, he said, such as View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Privacy Risks of Algorithmic Recourse.” Michael Lingzhi Li : Named Edelman Laureate in 2022 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for “Data-Driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen” (... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

eliminating the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology uses machine-learning View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

the data collected, including demographic information, is protected and confidential; and there is no human interaction, as analysis is done using algorithms and artificial intelligence. To date, Perlow and her team have collected... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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