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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice Architects Reveal a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In four studies, participants practiced novel rituals at home... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then withdrew a plan for an IPO. To account for selection View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions. Observation bias is studied through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

points daily. But it's hard to acquire new customer groups when algorithms have a bias to replicate the tastes on which they are trained. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919413-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

offer. Receivers had a strong truth bias, although the majority of senders were truthful, and friends had more of a truth bias than strangers. Receivers were not able to detect deception at a rate above chance. Friends were not better at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

the optimal rating. This suggests that large gains could be made by implementing optimal ratings. Much of the gains come from our method responding more quickly to changes in a restaurant's quality. Our algorithm can be flexibly applied... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

behalf of the firm; others operate independently of these characteristics. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49196 Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection. By: Di... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Anthropic as 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... View Details