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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
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
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
into providing harmful information – e.g., instructions on how to build a bomb. Their prior work focuses on designing algorithms to defend against those attacks, which take the form of prompts that cause LLMs to bypass their safety... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
leveraging the knowledge of people from around the world to solve big data challenges; for example, algorithms that optimize power generation on the International Space Station or that detect the location of craters on the moon. At... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
what should you be doing with this information?” Testing companies use a rash of custom-designed assessments, including personality tests, skills assessments, math and logic problems, and judgment tests, on hypothetical work situations. Results are measured using... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Professor of Marketing, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech and Co-Founder, Technology, Race and Prejudice (T.R.A.P.) Lab Turner's research explores how race and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
comparison to a store that is having a sale." In fact, customer behavior in general—unpredictable under the best of circumstances—becomes even more erratic during liquidation events, he notes. For their work with Gordon Brothers Group, Craig and Raman developed a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
adversary for a range of reasons. “We have a divisive president—and the extremes get the air time, both among our political leaders and the media. The algorithms created by our social networks fuel the fire even more. This all reinforces... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility of optimizing decisions across an entire supply chain, as opposed to within single firms. 52... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
well as specialized companies like Videa Health, Metaphysic and Instadeep that are applying AI to more specific problems (Dentistry, Movie/TV production, Route optimization etc.) We also look at the power of algorithms to shape consumer... View Details
- Web
The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
equity, and human-centered values into emerging technologies. This demonstrates how a human-centered, inclusive approach to algorithm design can proactively surface risks and guide more ethical, effective innovation. Strategically,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says... View Details
- Web
Business of Ideas - Course Catalog
changing. Discussion topics will include The New York Times , TED, Jeff Bezos and his acquisition of The Washington Post , “new media” figures like Joe Rogan, and the impact of AI on the ideas landscape and algorithms in distribution... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
IBISWorld.com. Piskorski decided to home in on OKCupid, a general-interest dating site that boasts more than 3 million members. The site allows all of its users to browse each other's profiles, but uses comprehensive quizzes and View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
jointly by SEAS and Harvard Business School, while Shu was in the Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows program, run by SEAS, HBS, and the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences. The two got to chatting, laying the seeds for HiHome, a start-up that uses scoring... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Through Open Innovation Competitions By: Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Open data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
engineering prototyping, even a little bit of software and algorithm development. So eventually, when they go to launch their own venture or run their own team, they have an awareness of all the different parts that go into that. Tom... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the 10,000-plus funds as more... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland