October 17, 2019

Oct 11 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Executive Education Advanced Management Program Tech Session

Consider what it means to be a global change-maker in 2019. This event is invite only.
May 2 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Digital Initiative Discussion & Symposium (DIDS)

Explore the digital transformation of the economy
Apr 11 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Business Ethics in a Digital Age

Technology and other New Frontiers for Corporate Responsibility, Markets, and Society
Apr 5 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Future Assembly

A commitment to spotting the future.
Mar 29 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Platform Strategy Research Conference: What is Next?

Join the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School to share perspectives on next steps for platform strategies.
Feb 28 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Digital Transformation Summit: AI, Ethics, and Business Decisions

An open forum on tech, organizations, and markets.
Dec 3 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Apple’s Implicit Promise

A talk with Joel Podolny, Vice President at Apple and Dean of Apple University
Nov 4 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

DI Future Assembly Shanghai

Our unique convening hits the road.
Oct 23 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Projects + Pizza

A celebration of making for the Harvard tech community.
Sep 5 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Computers Are Becoming Less General-Purpose: Deep Learning, Hardware Specialization, and the Fragmentation of Computing

Join us for a lunch chat with Neil Thompson from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. This event is open to HBS faculty only.

Older Events

Digital Seminar Events

Oct 2 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

The GDPR’s early impact on martech

Digital Seminar Series: Garrett Johnson, Questrom School of Business at Boston University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Sep 18 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Disintermediation in online marketplaces

Digital Seminar Series: Grace Gu, Harvard Business School. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
May 8 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Where Do New Things Come From, and What Do We Do When We Get Them?

Digital Seminar Series: Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Apr 24 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Targeting and Privacy in Mobile Advertising

Digital Seminar Series: Hema Yoganarasimhan, Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Mar 27 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Learning about Bargaining from eBay’s Best Offer Platform

Digital Seminar Series: Matthew Backus, Assistant Professor at Columbia University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Mar 13 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Mobile Targeting Using Customer Trajectory Patterns

Digital Seminar Series: Beibei Li, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Feb 27 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impact of the Universal Product Code

Digital Seminar Series: Emek Basker, University of Missouri. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Feb 13 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Optimal Economic Design through Deep Learning

Digital Seminar Series: David Parkes, John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Harvard University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Dec 12 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Platform Competition Under Network Effects: Piggybacking and Optimal Subsidization

Digital Seminar Series: D.J. Wu, Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Nov 28 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Distributional Matthew Effect in Consumer Choices

Digital Seminar Series: Michael Zhang, School of Business at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.

Older Digital Seminar Events

Doctoral Student Workshop Events

Oct 9 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

The value of competitor information: evidence from a field experiment

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Hyunjin Kim, Harvard Business School. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
May 1 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Competition in the Data Market: Evidence from the European Data Protection Regulation

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Harvard Business School. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Apr 17 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Reducing Bias in Algorithmic Pricing Experiments in an Online Marketplace

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: David Holtz, Sloan School of Management, MIT. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Apr 3 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Competitor Information and Firm Strategy: A Field Experiment on Yelp

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Hyunjin Kim, Harvard Business School. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Mar 6 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Online to Offline: The Impact of Airbnb on the US Residential Housing Market

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Sophie Calder-Wang, Dept. of Economics, Harvard University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Feb 20 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

To Charge or To Wire: Investigating the Interacting Effect of Paywall and Publisher’s Content Strategy on Online News Subscription

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Xiaoli Yang, Questrom School of Business, Boston University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Feb 6 2019—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

A Bitter Pill to Swallow? The Consequences of Patient Evaluation in Online Health Q&A Platforms

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Chen Chen, Questrom School of Business, Boston University. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Dec 5 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Reference Price Effects in Online Vacation Rental Markets

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Shrabastee Banerjee, Boston University, Questrom School of Business. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Nov 21 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

The Wisdom of Human-Computer Crowds for Analyzing Medical Images

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Erik Duhaime, MIT Sloan School of Management. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.
Nov 7 2018—Sponsored by Digital Initiative

Political Polarization in Televised News

Doctoral Student Workshop Series: Kai Zhu, Boston University, Questrom School of Business. This event is open to faculty, doctoral students, and academic researchers.