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- 22 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have
database and publishing that information every day. I just compute the average, and then let's say the next day, I compute the average again. But on that day, let's say you—Rachel—have left that group of people, and been removed from the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
trials. As a result, this could change the types of products that can be profitably brought to market. To better understand the landscape of precision medicines, we use a comprehensive database of over 130,000 global clinical trials over... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
HBS colleagues Leslie Jeng, senior lecturer; Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor; Natalia Rigol, assistant professor; and Benjamin N. Roth, Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor. A year-long database build Because no... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- November 2024
- Article
A National Analysis of General Pediatric Inpatient Unit Closures and Openings, 2011–2018
By: Carolyn San Soucie, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao and Alyna T. Chien
OBJECTIVES: This paper provides an examination of: (1) the frequency and net rates of change for general pediatric inpatient (GPI) unit closures and openings nationally and by state; (2) how often closures or openings are caused by GPI unit changes only or caused by... View Details
Keywords: Health Industry
San Soucie, Carolyn, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao, and Alyna T. Chien. "A National Analysis of General Pediatric Inpatient Unit Closures and Openings, 2011–2018." Hospital Pediatrics 14, no. 11 (November 2024): 899–908.
- 07 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination
- Article
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: G. Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article contributes to the literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Emerging Market; Bribery; Business ＆ Government Relations; Turbulence; Violence; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Business and Government Relations; Business History; India; Latin America
Jones, G., and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Australian Economic History Review 58, no. 3 (November 2018): 233–264.
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
that, “High-risk AI systems should be designed and developed in such a way that natural persons can oversee their functioning.” Regulation raises a complex set of challenges. For example, the set of databases on which AI learns will... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- October 2021
- Article
Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach
By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Programs; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 58, no. 5 (October 2021): 981–1006.
- Research Summary
Health-care Applications
Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
Collections. Reinert, in conjunction with Carpenter and HBS Knowledge and Library Services, even developed a Way to Wealth website to provide students and scholars with an online, one-stop-shop that includes a database of editions of The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
year detailing Gebru’s efforts within Google to urge caution with AI, saying tech companies shouldn’t race to launch systems without considering the potential risks and harms they could cause. She warned that unchecked AI databases could... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
whether this social movement impacted the hiring of female talent, Luo and Zhang focused on new movie projects set up from January 2014 to September 2019 using Done Deal Pro, a database that tracks script deals. They also used information... View Details
- Research Summary
Strategic Human Capital
My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
couldn't get a hold of us. I had pilots e-mailing me say, 'I'm available, what do I do?'" During the crisis, Charles Mees, JetBlue's CIO, created a database to track crew locations and contact information, later adding new functions... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
example, if the customer service department gets a new database system, the reps may be able to perform a standard credit check in 20 minutes rather than 50 minutes. To accommodate the improvement, just change the unit time estimate to 20... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 2020
- Working Paper
Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach
By: Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
Padilla, Nicolas, and Eva Ascarza. "Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-091, February 2019. (Revised May 2020. Accepted at the Journal of Marketing Research.)
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
they do it.” The color of money is mostly white The total share of assets managed by minority-owned firms in 2021 was 1.4 percent, according to Lerner, while minorities that year made up over 40 percent of the population. Lerner and colleagues built a View Details
- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
patent activities at Amazon. To do so, we began by looking at Amazon’s patent history using the Derwent Innovation database for the years 1998-2018, which included more than 11,000 published patents in the United States. We learned four... View Details