Algorithms - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

fairly homogeneous top performer set, and again, if we want to just think about the trend, it's usually males and oftentimes Caucasian males. And so that was the first time we kind of thought, OK, well if we're just profiling a very limited demographic sample, it could... View Details

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

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

biologist at 10x Genomics, developing algorithms for groundbreaking single-cell and spatial transcriptomics products. Before that, he was a bioinformatics intern at Illumina. Narek holds an MEng and BSc in computer science and molecular... View Details

18 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

platform. We merge online with offline data, adding exogenous factors, like the weather, to identify targeting opportunities based on customer behavior." BulkWhiz is now raising Series A funding for three objectives: develop AI technology to "create regionally relevant... View Details

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

the researchers then developed an efficient multi-product price optimization algorithm to concurrently recommend prices for all products on Rue La La’s site in a given day. Determining optimal pricing Then, in January 2014, they teamed up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

price of competing products, pose new challenges on translating the demand forecasts into a pricing policy. We develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the subsequent multi-product price optimization that incorporates reference price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

focus on the development of privacy-preserving algorithms, with a particular emphasis on ML systems. These algorithms help safeguard personal data while extracting valuable insights across domains like statistical genetics, personalized... 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

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

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

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

Also, how do you screen résumés more effectively and build better algorithms for that process so that you can respond to prospective applicants sooner? How do you remain competitive in retaining talent, and what is most difficult about... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

25 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

parallel with building Moonshot, I’ve worked on some of the most ambitious challenges in medtech. My graduate studies in biomedical engineering equipped me with a deep understanding of robotics, cellular biology, and computer science, which allowed me to develop motion... View Details

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

Search, a Google travel search service, we identify and measure the impact of diverting search away from non-paid algorithmic links to competing online travel agencies. Controlling for search intent, we find that Google's differential... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

537-569 Abstract The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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

01 Aug 2002
News

For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

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

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