Echo chambers are a phenomenon at the intersection of social network structure and language. We develop via a formal model that leverages this to develop the partial endogeneity of language to network structure, and propose a network shock as an intervention that online communities may undertake to disrupt extremist speech. We test the predictions of the model via a natural experiment in an online community on reddit.com, and find strong evidence that the network shock induced by the natural experiment is successful in breaking up hate speech.

Summit: Pathways to a Just Digital Future is a program to challenge our understanding of how inequality both reveals and conceals itself in the digital world, and then create change.

Digital platforms have a widely-documented issue with bias, which can impact their bottom line via missed opportunities, bad publicity, or even legal action. There is evidence that bias decreases when a platform conveys a signal of quality for underrepresented groups. This paper studies the practicalities of implementing a fair and equitable designation of quality for crowdfunding projects and the potential economic tradeoffs.

The first stop along the journey is “Summit Listening,” a new video series that will aim to better understand and address inequality in tech. Premiering in the new year, each episode will key in on the roots of these problems through conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, and activists. Our hope is that this project will help to advance collective…

To kick off “Summit Gathering,” we are hosting a series of Community Conversations to dig deeper into the issues around inequality in tech discussed in the “Summit Listening” conversations and generate ideas for change. “All data science is political… it’s impossible to take a data set and analyze it in a quote unquote perfectly objective…

We seek to address the debate of whether government funding spurs entrepreneurial activity by exploring the nuances of this activity in terms of success or failure to raise sufficient funding to move beyond the ideation stage.

Conventional wisdom suggests that IT helps managers supervise more subordinates but is this true for all managers? In this paper, I study how manager communication requirements affect the reorganization of hospital divisions after IT adoption.

The Harvard Business Analytics Conference will explore analytics and AI, new operational foundations of business.