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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

culture of greater competitiveness in the investment banking business itself with the potential for increased algorithmic trading strategies, volume of business, and potential commissions. “Investment banking, which had historically built... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

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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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

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

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

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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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

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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

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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

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

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

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

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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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

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

data, including the export profile. While the export-oriented growth model (or frameworks such as the Washington consensus) provides a recipe to be used pretty much the same way across different countries, the competitiveness approach suggests a conceptual View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

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

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

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

aspects of that data might create bias, then you absolutely will not build your algorithm with intentionality.” Ballard decided to field-test his idea on another underserved business population: the fledgling cannabis industry. Good Tree... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

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

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

and 334,906 reviews in New York City, one of Airbnb’s major markets. Using reviews as a proxy for bookings, the researchers tracked reviews for the year before and the year after the pandemic began. They turned to NamePrism, a publicly available View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

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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