Mike Luca on the role experiments play in addressing discrimination

In this episode, we speak with Harvard Business School Professor Mike Luca about the role of platform design choices in reinforcing discrimination, how data experiments offer insights for managers, and what the future could hold if organizations continue to pay attention to these issues.
Brandeis Marshall on the potential for data equity

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Brandeis Marshall from DataedX about the consequences of data inequity, the balancing act of qualitative and quantitative mindsets, and critical importance of humanizing data systems.
Using verifiable digital provenance to combat disinformation

It’s possible to put the burden of truth in the hands of readers — just provide them with a tamper-resistant edit history for each digital object in a news story.
New rules in the age of AI

Harvard Business School Professor Karim R. Lakhani shares opportunities for transformation in today’s digital world.
How sensors and software are solving the world’s greatest challenges

Embedded sensors have created monumental advances in the efficiency, health, and safety of manufacturing facilities — even enabling a factory to build a car by itself.
Data, network effects, and competitive advantage

Just because a product becomes ‘smart’ doesn’t mean it will magically gain a foolproof competitive position in the marketplace.
Tech that helps us understand ourselves

Technology is often designed to make things easier. But what if future technologies were designed to better reflect society? Beth Altringer from the Desirability Lab is exploring this question through POV development.
Connected tech gathers real-time behavioral and physiological data beyond a controlled setting

Connected technology has recently become ubiquitous in consumer health markets. And now many of these products are formally part of the healthcare system. Harvard Business School Professor Ariel Dora Stern and researcher Caroline Mara chart the upward trend and the potential this holds for biomedical research.
Immersive sports analytics overlays the virtual world onto real life

Immersive sports analytics overlays the virtual world onto real life with the promise of game-changing results. The SportsXR research team at Harvard’s Visual Computing Group visualizes this new data-rich experience for athletes, coaches, and fans.
Forecasting agricultural vulnerabilities on a changing planet

Satellites give us a whole new way to look at the effects of climate change on agriculture — from underneath the ground. Angela Rigden, a hydrologist and Harvard postdoc, is using this data to map agricultural "hotspots" and ultimately guide adaptation strategies to protect the world's food supply.

Events

BEACON 2023: The Harvard Business Analytics Conference

Influencers

Sinan Aral

Sinan is the David Austin Professor of Management at Sloan School of Management, MIT, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a founding partner at Manifest Capital.
Brandeis Marshall

Brandeis is a data engineer, learning strategist, and entrepreneur who designs and delivers computing and data instruction for practical application.
Gizem Korkmaz

Gizem is an associate professor at the Biocomplexity Institute of University of Virginia and an adjunct faculty at department of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Tech.
Ginger Jin

Ginger is professor of economics at the University of Maryland, College Park and co-founder of Hazel Analytics.
Jevin West

Jevin is an associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, the co-founder of the DataLab, and the Director of the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.
Michael Impink

Michael is a doctoral candidate in strategy at Stern School of Business at New York University and a fellow at the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Shane Greenstein

Shane is the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and co-chair of the HBS Digital Initiative.
Francesca Dominici

Francesca is a data scientist whose pioneering scientific contributions have advanced public health research around the globe.
Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Yael is a professor and senior associate dean for professional degree programs at University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
Beth Altringer

Beth is the director of the Desirability Lab and a senior preceptor at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
David Parkes

David is the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, leading research at the intersection of economics and computer science.
Kasia Stochniol

Kasia is Associate Director at Lean Data, Acumen.
Dan Nevius

Dan is the co-founder and COO of Analytical Space.
Justin Oliveira

Justin (MBA ’17) is the co-founder, President, and CEO of Analytical Space.
Ariel Dora Stern

Ariel is the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, focused on the management of innovation in health care.