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Just Digital Future

Data & Analysis

Brandeis Marshall on the potential for data equity

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Learning About Technology

About the project, Pathways to a Just Digital Future

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Featuring Ethiopiah Al-Mahdi, Tanya Flint, Michelle Monti, Elizabeth Sarley and Jamie Thomas
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Social Enterprise

Dan Mall on defining “good” design

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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Ifeoma Ajunwa on the limitless boundaries of employee surveillance

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Featuring Ifeoma Ajunwa
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

James Mickens on why all data science is political

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Featuring James Mickens and HBS Gender Initiative
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Mar 31, 2021

Pathways to a Just Digital Future virtual event

Connect, discuss the problem of inequality in tech, and identify opportunities to improve
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Learning About Technology

HBS Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman has a question for you

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Learning About Technology

HBS Digital Initiative Director David Homa has a question for you

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Technology strives to make things better, but its applications and uses are often biased. How do we create a digital world that works for everyone?

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Disinformation Reality

Platforms & Crowds

How brands unwittingly fund disinformation

By Maggie Engler
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Platforms & Crowds

Facts and fakes: how misinformation, disinformation, and hoaxes impact brands

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By Renée DiResta
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Platforms & Crowds

Unfair fight: small businesses vs. disinformation

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By Neal Ungerleider
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Data & Analysis

Using verifiable digital provenance to combat disinformation

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By James Mickens
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Mar 23, 2020

Summit: brands & the disinformation reality

How brands and disinformation shape one another from multiple perspectives
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Managing in the Digital Economy

Impossible burgers won’t make men grow breasts (and other lies about your brand)

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By Ezra Englebardt
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In a world where information spreads without control or verification, globally, instantly, how can brands control their story?

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Machine Learning Curve

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Why AI can’t afford to discount diversity

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By Rachael Comunale
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Probably approximately ethical

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Featuring Kathryn Hume
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Ethics and the arrival of decision-making machines

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By Jonathan Shaw
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

New rules in the age of AI

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Featuring Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Where fairness ends

By David Weinberger
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs

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By Andrea Coravos, Irene Chen, Ankit Gordhandas and Ariel Dora Stern
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Civic Tech

A justice system run by AI

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Featuring Christopher Bavitz
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Data & Analysis

Defining global digital ethics standards

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By Roberto V. Zicari
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Competing in an AI-driven world

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By Jenny Hoffman
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Data & Analysis

Augmenting human and machine intelligence with data visualization

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Featuring Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas
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In the era of AI, we find ourselves in a place where technology is crashing into uncharted territory from privacy to ethics to social interaction.

Climate Disruption

Data & Analysis

Data science answers big questions like ‘how does climate change affect your health?’

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By Lena Goodwin
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Climate intelligence: a clean way forward

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By Jeff Wen
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Data & Analysis

Forecasting agricultural vulnerabilities on a changing planet

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By Andrew Iliff
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Innovation & Disruption

A call for moonshots, silver buckshots, and all of the above

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By Allison Webster
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Innovation & Disruption

Sustainability is an innovation problem

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By Rebecca Henderson
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Innovation & Disruption

A model of efficiency

By Harvard Graduate School of Design Communications
Civic Tech

The road map of the future: transportation

By WBUR
Innovation & Disruption

The vegans are coming, and we might join them

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By Juan Siliezar

Real disruption that changes life as we know it is difficult to create (even in Silicon Valley), but disruption is what’s needed to combat the climate crisis.

New Tech Makers

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Some assembly required: building an interdisciplinary superteam to tackle AI ethics

By Hilary Ross
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Managing in the Digital Economy

The triple-strength worker

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By David Homa
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Managing in the Digital Economy

When meritocracy is a myth

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By Colleen Ammerman
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Innovation & Disruption

“Harder, better, faster, stronger”: tethered soft exosuit reduces the metabolic cost of running

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By Lindsay Brownell
Data & Analysis

Data, network effects, and competitive advantage

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Civic Tech

What food trucks can teach us about IT

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The MBA journey into tech – explore the tool to envision possible paths

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By HBS Digital Initiaitve
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Platform

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By HBS Digital Initiaitve

Silos don’t work anymore. How can the creators (and deployers) of technology move forward with a multidisciplinary approach?

Industry Transformations

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

AI puts Moderna within striking distance of beating COVID-19

By Hannah Mayer, Karim Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Kerry Herman
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Innovation & Disruption

How COVID is pushing tech to revamp sports

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By Johannes Fühner
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

How machine learning can revolutionize air travel

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By Rachael Comunale
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Innovation & Disruption

When worlds collide: why your company’s digital transformation effort is stalled

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By George Corbin
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Beat the robot

By Sascha L. Schmidt
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Innovation & Disruption

The new normal: luxury in the secondary market

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By Charles Gorra
Innovation & Disruption

Clinical trials are in need of a digital makeover

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By Andrea Coravos
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Innovation & Disruption

What’s the future and why it’s up to us

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Featuring Tim O’Reilly

What happens when well-established industries collide with technology? As technology becomes more efficient, cost-effective, and necessary to compete, disruption creates a greater impact across industries.

Society Meets Tech

Innovation & Disruption

Three myths to dispel about COVID-monitoring gadgets

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By Dena Mendelsohn, Sneha Jain and Andrea Coravos
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Data & Analysis

Tech that helps us understand ourselves

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Featuring Beth Altringer
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Civic Tech

Tech governance shaped by humans

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By Laura Manley and Bogdan Belei
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Civic Tech

The intersection of tech and public interest

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By David Eaves, Kevin Frazier and Lavanya Singh
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Managing in the Digital Economy

A responsibility to judge carefully in the era of prediction decision machines

By David Parkes
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Platforms & Crowds

A guide to nature in the age of Instagram

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By Theresa Diederich
Data & Analysis

Connected tech gathers real-time behavioral and physiological data beyond a controlled setting

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By Ariel Dora Stern and Caroline Marra
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Data & Analysis

Immersive sports analytics overlays the virtual world onto real life

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By Hanspeter Pfister, Tica Lin, Johanna Beyer and Yalong Yang
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How is society impacted by technology? The places where the two intersect can be sources of real tension, but also opportunities for major breakthroughs.

New Space Race

Innovation & Disruption

Who owns space?

By Christian Camerota
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Digital Infrastructure

Hunting big game in commercial space

By Matthew Weinzierl
Digital Infrastructure

When rocket launches go wrong: space insurance is here to payout

By Frederick Daso
Innovation & Disruption

Launching a space mission from the deepest ocean

Featuring Peter Girguis, Clifford Pontbriand and Norman Farr
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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Creating a more general deep learning algorithm for galaxies

By Avery Schiff
Innovation & Disruption

Interplanetary economics: it’s time to run the numbers

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Innovation & Disruption

The scope of TESS

By Alvin Powell
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Data & Analysis

The data bottleneck in space and what it means for earth

By Robert Kerstens
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Innovation & Disruption

Space tourism adventurism

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By HBS Digital Initiaitve

With a new class of billionaires, new life is breathed into the space sector — making it an exciting innovation hotbed full of advancements in everything from space tourism to the search for extraterrestrial life.

For Public Good

Data & Analysis

How targeted review material is helping close the gender gap in STEM

By Vinod Bakthavachalam and Alan Hickey
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Mental health’s technological imperative — through the pandemic and beyond

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By John Bracaglia
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Social Enterprise

Mapping the burden of diabetes

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Featuring Tarun Khanna
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Civic Tech

The importance of government going digital (hint: it’s not just about efficiency)

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Digital Infrastructure

Technology is fueling urban development across emerging markets

By Rachael Comunale
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Data & Analysis

Deliver social impact by speaking directly to consumers

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By Kasia Stochniol
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Civic Tech

To what extent is it possible to take the distance out of distance learning?

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Featuring Michael Sandel
Platforms & Crowds

The curation of collective intelligence

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By Jin Paik, John Winsor, Sarah Tang, Jean Weiss and Adam Smith
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Social enterprise-focused organizations and individuals are on a mission to do less harm, more good, creating innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems.

Future of Finance

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The future of fintech is … Africa

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By Lauren Cohen
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Fintech / Digital Currencies

Libra crypotocurrency and trust

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Fintech / Digital Currencies

Blockchain 101: the primer we still need

By HBS Digital Initiaitve
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Human-centered design could make India’s digital transformation more inclusive

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By Emily Middleton
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Fintech / Digital Currencies

Here’s how to build a smarter app that could make working families richer

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By Leigh Philips and Justine Zinkin
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Fintech is transforming the MEASA region

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By Raja Al Mazrouei
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New technology is changing the landscape of finance for everyone and in a myriad of ways. Saving, trading, and making payments look very different in a world of automation and algorithms.

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