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  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that showed promise in using machine... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
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Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

By: Eleanor W. Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica and Christopher T. Stanton
We present evidence on how generative AI changes the work patterns of knowledge workers using data from a 6-month-long, cross-industry, randomized field experiment. Half of the 7,137 workers in the study received access to a generative AI tool integrated into the... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Behavior; Time Management
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Dillon, Eleanor W., Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica, and Christopher T. Stanton. "Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33795, May 2025.
  • September 2024
  • Exercise

Finding Your 'Jagged Frontier': A Generative AI Exercise

By: Mitchell Weiss
In 2023 a set of scholars set out to study the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on the quality and productivity of knowledge workers—in this specific instance, management consultants. They wanted to know across a range of tasks in a workflow, which, if any, would... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Productivity; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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Weiss, Mitchell. "Finding Your 'Jagged Frontier': A Generative AI Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 825-070, September 2024.
  • November 2, 2021
  • Article

The Cultural Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise

By: Sam Ransbotham, François Candelon, David Kiron, Burt LaFountain and Shervin Khodabandeh
The 2021 MIT SMR-BCG report identifies a wide range of AI-related cultural benefits at both the team and organizational levels. Whether it’s reconsidering business assumptions or empowering teams, managing the dynamics across culture, AI use, and organizational... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness
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Ransbotham, Sam, François Candelon, David Kiron, Burt LaFountain, and Shervin Khodabandeh. "The Cultural Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise." MIT Sloan Management Review, Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Initiative (website) (November 2, 2021). (Findings from the 2021 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Global Executive Study and Research Project.)
  • 20 Oct 2022 - 22 Oct 2022
  • Talk

Stigma Against AI Companion Applications

By: Julian De Freitas, A. Ragnhildstveit and A.K. Uğuralp
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Attitudes; Perception
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De Freitas, Julian, A. Ragnhildstveit, and A.K. Uğuralp. "Stigma Against AI Companion Applications." 53rd Association for Consumer Research Annual Conference, Denver, CO, October 20–22, 2022.
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Michael is interested in research at the intersection of technology and supply chain in corporations, especially retailers. His recent projects have focused on Human-AI collaboration at retailers. View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Operations; AI and Machine Learning; Retail Industry
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Why Most Resist AI Companions

By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
AI companion applications—designed to serve as synthetic interaction partners—have recently become capable enough to reduce loneliness, a growing public health concern. However, behavioral research has yet to fully explain the barriers to adoption of such AI and... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Chatbots; Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Aversion; Lonelines; Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Emotions
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De Freitas, Julian, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp, and Stefano Puntoni. "Why Most Resist AI Companions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-030, December 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
  • June 19, 2023
  • Article

Should You Start a Generative AI Company?

By: Julian De Freitas
Many entrepreneurs are considering starting companies that leverage the latest generative AI technology, but they must ask themselves whether they have what it takes to compete on increasingly commoditized foundational models, or whether they should instead... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software
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De Freitas, Julian. "Should You Start a Generative AI Company?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 19, 2023).
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Kris Ferreira, Maya Balakrishnan and Jordan Tong
Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). How can humans and algorithms work together to make... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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DosSantos DiSorbo, Matthew, Kris Ferreira, Maya Balakrishnan, and Jordan Tong. "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers." Working Paper, May 2025.
  • 2023
  • Article

Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators

By: Benjamin Jakubowski, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are widely used to estimate causal effects in the absence of a randomized experiment. However, standard approaches to RD analysis face two significant limitations. First, they require a priori knowledge of discontinuities in... View Details
Keywords: Regression Discontinuity Design; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning
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Jakubowski, Benjamin, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators." Journal of Machine Learning Research 24, no. 133 (2023): 1–57.
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Borusan CAT: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI (B)

By: Navid Mojir and Gamze Yucaoglu
Borusan Cat is an international distributor of Caterpillar heavy machines. In 2021, it had been three years since Ozgur Gunaydin (CEO) and Esra Durgun (Director of Strategy, Digitization, and Innovation) started working on Muneccim, the company’s predictive AI tool.... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Industrial Products Industry; Turkey; Middle East
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Mojir, Navid, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Borusan CAT: Monetizing Prediction in the Age of AI (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 522-045, May 2022.

    Frederick L. Maytag

    As the founder of the Maytag Company, Maytag was renowned for his financial reliability and technical innovation. The company introduced several models of washing machines with great success, including the... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • October 31, 2022
    • Article

    Achieving Individual—and Organizational—Value with AI

    By: Sam Ransbotham, David Kiron, François Candelon, Shervin Khodabandeh and Michael Chu
    New research shows that employees derive individual value from AI when using the technology improves their sense of competency, autonomy, and relatedness. Likewise, organizations are far more likely to obtain value from AI when their workers do. This report offers key... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Value; Competency and Skills
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    Ransbotham, Sam, David Kiron, François Candelon, Shervin Khodabandeh, and Michael Chu. "Achieving Individual—and Organizational—Value with AI." MIT Sloan Management Review, Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Initiative (website) (October 31, 2022). (Findings from the 2022 Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Global Executive Study and Research Project.)
    • 16 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference methods,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • October 2019
    • Case

    Feeling Machines: Emotion AI at Affectiva

    By: Shane Greenstein and John Masko
    In 2016, Affectiva—a Boston-based emotion AI software company with a long track record of building emotion-sensing software for market research—had attempted to expand into new verticals by releasing a mobile software development kit (SDK) that downloaders could adapt... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Market Research; Business Model; Finance; Revenue; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Applications and Software; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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    Greenstein, Shane, and John Masko. "Feeling Machines: Emotion AI at Affectiva." Harvard Business School Case 620-058, October 2019.
    • October 14, 2023
    • Article

    Will Consumers Buy Selfish Self-Driving Cars?

    By: Julian De Freitas
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Ethics; Technological Innovation; Safety; Auto Industry
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    De Freitas, Julian. "Will Consumers Buy Selfish Self-Driving Cars?" Wall Street Journal (October 14, 2023), C5.
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    AI in Disguise—How AI-generated Ads' Visual Cues Shape Consumer Perception and Performance

    By: Yannick Exner, Jochen Hartmann, Oded Netzer and Shunyuan Zhang
    Generative AI’s recent advancements in creating content have offered vast potential to transform the advertising industry. This research investigates the impact of generative AI-enabled visual ad creation on real-world advertising effectiveness. For this purpose, we... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; AI and Machine Learning; Advertising; Consumer Behavior; Advertising Industry
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    Exner, Yannick, Jochen Hartmann, Oded Netzer, and Shunyuan Zhang. "AI in Disguise—How AI-generated Ads' Visual Cues Shape Consumer Perception and Performance." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 5096969.
    • March 27, 2025
    • Article

    How One Company Used AI to Broaden Its Customer Base

    By: Sunil Gupta and Frank V. Cespedes
    The software company SAP successfully leveraged AI tools to begin selling to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) market, which had previously been uneconomical for its in-person sales approach. By mapping the customer journey and deploying over 40 AI tools, SAP... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Sales; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
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    Gupta, Sunil, and Frank V. Cespedes. "How One Company Used AI to Broaden Its Customer Base." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 27, 2025).
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand
    Can generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) transform the role of the CEO? This study investigates whether Gen-AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees display aversion to Gen-AI communication. We present a framework of Gen-AI aversion that distinguishes... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; AI and Machine Learning; Perception; Communication
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Bart S. Vanneste, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand. "The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-008, August 2024. (Revised May 2025.)
    • January–February 2025
    • Article

    Why People Resist Embracing AI

    By: Julian De Freitas
    The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them. Unfortunately, many people view AI negatively, fearing it will cause job losses, increase the likelihood that their personal... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Perception
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    De Freitas, Julian. "Why People Resist Embracing AI." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January–February 2025): 52–56.
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