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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
“That’s something, at least right now, that the Amazon algorithm has been unable to crack,” says Raffaelli. When the brown paper came off the windows of BookHampton at the start of the summer season in 2016, regular customers found a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
algorithms for matching refugees and asylum seekers to host countries based on their likelihood of finding successful employment. “Can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
In his most recent paper, Luca and his fellow authors offered a new algorithm that takes into account reviewer accuracy, stringency, and other quirks as well as changes in a restaurant’s quality over time. If the View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
for example, they are less interested in protecting what was previously considered proprietary information. “Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Alibaba now open-source all their algorithms to make the most of their data,” observes Karim... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
to use it, and when not to use it.” Taming the data flow To get a handle on all this data and to better predict outcomes of policies, Luca believes cities need to develop algorithms to coordinate their own data with online information. In... View Details
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Data Science for Managers 2 - Course Catalog
wrangle” (collect and clean data that suit their purposes) and expand their machine learning repertoire to include gradient boosting, neural networks, unsupervised algorithms and natural language processing. As in DSM1/IDS, students will... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to build new View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 619-014 Zebra Medical Vision An Israeli startup founded in 2014, Zebra Medical Vision developed algorithms that produced diagnoses from X-rays, mammograms, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
Networks connect people to each other and to potentially vast pools of information. They are thus extraordinarily valuable tools for businesses. It may well be that businesses benefit primarily not from the computer's ability to execute View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
of transparency is a tricky one. For instance, some algorithms are reaching levels of complexity that are challenging to explain, and even good explanations of models can quickly become outdated. When View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
John calls them, such as selectively reporting studies that achieved positive results, to "academic felonies" such as falsifying data. Measuring Truthfulness The participants' scores were determined by a truth-telling algorithm... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
calculations—are powerful. Even though algorithms often outperform human judgment, people resist allowing a numerical formula to make decisions for them (Dawes, 1979). Nevertheless, people increasingly depend on View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
relationship banking and maintain that role as the trusted local advisor. What will it take to get us there? Regulation is one of the greatest concerns as we move into this next stage of innovation, but the question is not more or less regulation. We need smart... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
happening, Bouygues warns. To break out of our own bubbles, we need to get beyond the algorithms that decide which news to serve us, and make a more deliberate effort to hear opposing viewpoints. Expand the network. If your corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when structuring an experiment, he... View Details