AI and Machine Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
News

Elevator Pitch: Dress Code

around each user. Leveraging AI and machine learning, the app uses a sophisticated algorithm to streamline and personalize a dynamically adaptive... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; mobile technology; entrepreneurship; startup; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

smoodi during my second year at HBS. During fall, our goal will be to raise funds and build a first machine prototype allowing for further testing. Several companies have already signed up for our beta-test.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

on what the company wants to achieve in their business model. Machine learning is one of the new core technologies that allow for data science. Many companies are relying on it for their advances. Google,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2020
News

The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

The digital revolution has dramatically improved health care delivery and discovery in recent years. Artificial intelligence is enhancing diagnostic machines and enabling... View Details

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

Birchbox, Young Invincibles, Color Camp, Women 2.0 and Casper. WHAT WERE YOUR GOALS FOR THE SUMMER? Rocio Wu (MBA 2020): Learning python and View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

Musk (AI has potential for great danger) or Mark Zuckerberg (the danger hype is overblown)? —Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) SESERI: We’re not worrying about the next five years and narrow AI here. We’re talking... View Details

Keywords: April White

Career Coach

Yiwei Zhao

company, where she gained insights into machine learning development cycles. She can help students understand how tech companies of different stages recruit, what it’s like to build a career in tech, View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

promise of the Learning Network was on display during the Business of AI SIP. Among the alumni participating were Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), cofounder and chief operating... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

complex job duties. When it comes to the kind of hiring decisions the researchers looked at in the study, however, it may be time to concede there are some things machines simply do better than humans. “It’s natural for people to think... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

and outcomes on a broad scale. Before HBS, Somani spent 10 years in the industry, managing software development teams building machine learning platforms at Oracle View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

can easily tweak that parameter on the profile and have the machine immediately produce another sample. It is important to note that outsourcing product development to customers does not eliminate View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

out the softer skills required for effective management, so I wanted to balance that by using the summer to hone my engineering skillset. I spent the summer building machine learning View Details

Keywords: Technology

Web

A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology - Course Catalog

computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI is driving unprecedented levels of investment in IT. Globally, IT investments exceed $2.5 trillion,... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Dec 2021
News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

and digital business models. Executive Education also offers Leveraging Fintech Innovation to Grow and Compete, a program that focuses on digital innovation from a financial perspective, exploring how... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Student-Profile

Omar Olivarez

The seeds of Omar Olivarez’s (he/him) interest in AI and the future of work were planted in an undergraduate course in business analytics and View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

confidence in daily decisions for me. Whether I’m taking part in a classroom discussion or spending time with loved ones, I’m able to focus on what’s in front of me and really give it my all,” says Acevedo. “It’s been a process of View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy... View Details