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- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
kill only one. While such damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t ethical dilemmas have traditionally been the focus of public debates about AV algorithm design, they are the wrong way to look at the issue, say De Freitas and his co-authors,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are You Supporting Your B Players?
whether it's learning algorithms or derivatives or parenting or riding a bicycle." "One of the things we find is that if you ignore [B players] long enough, they begin to see themselves as low performers," DeLong said.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
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
- 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
- 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
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By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Data, Algorithms and AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) with Paul Leonardi. Ryan L. Raffaelli : Runner-up for the 2024 Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award from the Academy of Management, Organization and Management Theory Division,... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
provided those jobs are predeicted to finish before the anticipated start of the larger jobs. This depends on using the -W and -We options. This should promote efficient job throughput. LSF's scheduling algorithm prioritizes cluster... View Details
- 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
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
firm performance. Participants will leave this session with a deeper understanding of the vast array of ways in which managers, executives, and investors can invest in human capital more efficiently. The Dark Side of AI: Algorithmic Bias... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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