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- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
can go really high tech, with algorithms behind the scenes that post prices at very high frequencies, or you can go the route that we took in collaboration with Zalora, which was to approach the problem by designing the online store in... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
And given my background as an industrial engineer, I looked at roles that had an operations flavor to them. I also realized I really enjoyed inventing things; one of the aspects I had enjoyed most about my work as an analyst was how unstructured it was: if I was going... 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
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Publication:In Better Living Through Economics, edited by John J. Siegfried, 206-222. Harvard University Press, 2010 Abstract The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact, traffic-based peer firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
however, before the two trends converge, and we will start broadcasting personal information automatically as we go through our day. As soon as Facebook develops appropriate algorithms to deliver the right social information to the right... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
algorithm customized for uniting the firm names to which patents are assigned with the firm names in Census Bureau's SSEL business registry. Through the Census Bureau's file structure, this R&D platform can be linked to the operating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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