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- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
we had no real idea what would prevail. So, this is where the scientific mystery lies,” he says. Applying dating algorithms to other industries, cautiously Platonic platforms could follow similar, industry-appropriate revelation models.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
information. As such, the professors devised an algorithm to identify how review text on Yelp is associated with regulatory inspections. They found that food handling violations are predicted by words like “sick” and “nauseous,” while the... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Teodorescu (DBA 2018) Alumni Track Crowd Favorite Safe surgery, any time, any place. Business Track, 2021 Concord Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021) Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner Integrated materials management platform for construction operators... 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 outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination Associate Professor Ayelet Israeli + More Info – Less Info Digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) have made an abundance of data and technological tools available... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
category for “Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Risks of Algorithmic Recourse.” Edward McFowland III : Winner of the Best Complete Paper Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental... View Details
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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 View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users. A. Chyei Vinluan, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RGE Report
Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji HBS Staff Author HBS Staff tag RGE Blog Professor Mahzarin Banaji is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, studying implicit beliefs, values, and social groups. Best known for her pioneering research on implicit View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
and your organization. Escape the bubble. With more than 90 percent of our information-gathering happening online these days, we are subject to more and more confirmation bias in the information we consume. The result is de facto tunnel... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
entrepreneurs being altruistic or salespeople being inattentive and impulsive, that I think are more-- they're more aha moments for us. Morrell: One of the issues that pymetrics looks to correct is bias in hiring. What have you learned... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency, and... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
of transparency is a tricky one. For instance, some algorithms are reaching levels of complexity that are challenging to explain, and even good explanations of models can quickly become outdated. When View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
the deployment of digital networks, data, and AI in a company can create major strategic advantages around scale, scope, and learning while minimizing growth restraints. But they also explained that AI creates major challenges such as View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
adjustment to a job or work environment that makes it possible for an individual with a disability to perform their job duties. Accommodations may include specialized equipment, modifications to the work environment or adjustments to work schedules or responsibilities.... 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