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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
type of artificial intelligence program trained on gigantic amounts of data that can perform natural language processing tasks such as summarizing content and answering questions. A pilot program was launched in November 2023, fed by 15... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot line Bionicle—making the Lego movie felt like too View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
IFPI’s Global Music Report. Apple Music and Spotify, services that were once thought to be the industry’s coup de grace, have actually transformed cash flows. Streaming has also created important data sets. As listeners gain wider access... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
systems, the influence of cryptography tools and big data on financial services, the deployment of different forms of capital into Web3 startups, and the ways in which blockchain technology will disrupt... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its reliance on View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
communities of color who include the voices of community members in their decision-making.” Unknown to Big Funders The NCF focuses on four pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
for these nonemergencies, the city relaunched it in August. The rebranded BOS:311 allows users to report a wider variety of nonemergency issues through more mediums, including Twitter. “There is a big difference between nominally... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Reddit. And so I knew how important Reddit was, and I had been a Reddit user as well. So I was pretty excited because I knew how big it was and I’d seen that Steve [Huffman] and Alexis [Ohanian] had gone back to try to sort of right the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
clear outcomes, the first one I mentioned. Education-employment data systems in the U.S. today, there’s just some really big gaps. Most states, for example, can tell you—or even this college scorecard can... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers