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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

pronounced when borrowers have limited access to credit, take loans for business purposes, and obtain more credit. Keywords: Informal Economy ; Digital Banking ; Mobile Phones ; Developing Countries and... View Details

2023
Working Paper

An Experimental Design for Anytime-Valid Causal Inference on Multi-Armed Bandits

By: Biyonka Liang and Iavor I. Bojinov

Typically, multi-armed bandit (MAB) experiments are analyzed at the end of the study and thus require the analyst to specify a fixed sample size in advance. However, in many online learning applications, it is advantageous to continuously produce inference on the... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods

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08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

Feldberg Jacqueline Ng Lane Maria P. Roche Innovation Iavor I. Bojinov Marco Iansiti Alan D. MacCormack Kyle R. Myers Maria P. Roche Stefan H. Thomke Machine learning Michael Lingzhi Li Edward McFowland III... View Details

11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

May 2022
Article

Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

By: Dan Amiram, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti

This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers. The... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Accounting; AI and Machine Learning; National Security; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

reimbursement, and trust-building barriers to prioritize—decisions that may shape not only LumineticsCore’s future but also the broader path of AI in medicine. Keywords: Healthcare ; View Details

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients based on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

future, 50 percent of all tasks currently done by humans could be done by machine learning and artificial intelligence,” says Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, assistant professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

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Hiring Organizations

Children SB Energy Scale AI ScaleUp Capital SCF Partners School and Beyond Foundation, The Schusterman Family Investments SE Ventures Sedgwick Segue Sustainable Infrastructure Selva Ventures Sephora Serent... View Details

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

president of engineering and research at Google and the founding managing director of the Google Center in Israel, explains how Google uses AI View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Podcast - Business & Environment

intelligence (AI), Jim Hayden, Chief Data Scientist at Everstream Analytics, discusses how they use AI and machine learning to help mitigate risk... View Details

17 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

Maybe they have to register in advance, wait in line at the polling station, and use an out-of-date polling machine to do so. The commercial marketplace is much more convenient. Consumers can cast their... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

21 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

Camp. That same year, the US Federal Trade Commission said it would investigate loot boxes, which critics liken to a slot machine or a scratch ticket that's more accessible to children. The video game industry pushed back hard, arguing... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

artificial intelligence further propels the opportunity and need to leverage a platform model for competitive advantage. AI companies are evolving into the next generation of platforms. This program will... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

energy that had driven the company’s success to date. Were they doing enough? Keywords: Artificial Intelligence ; Technology And Innovation Management ; Start-ups ; Entrepreneur ; Managing Growth ; Hiring ; Generative View Details

07 Jul 2022
HBS Case

How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

heights of dealing with Disney, to all the troubles that befell us years later, and ultimately to the bankruptcy. It comes from chasing that star and flying too close to the sun,” recalled Smith. A View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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By: Kris Johnson Ferreira

Professor Ferreira's research primarily focuses on how retailers can use algorithms to make better revenue management decisions, including pricing, product display, and assortment planning. In the retail industry, anticipating consumer demand is arguably one of the... View Details

Keywords: E-commerce; Analytics; Revenue Management; Pricing; Assortment Planning; Field Experiments; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

they doing enough? Keywords: Artificial Intelligence ; Technology And Innovation Management ; Start-ups ; Entrepreneur ; Managing Growth ; Hiring ; Generative Ai ; Data Labeling ; Scale ; View Details

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