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.
Laura N Montoya on the global cultural lens of AI

In this episode, we speak with Laura N Montoya from Accel.AI about the inherent correlation between underrepresentation and bias, the need to support communities building tech systems, plus advice for young people looking to get into the tech space.
Lumumba Seegars on inequality and agency in ERGs

In this episode, we speak with Lumumba Seegars from Harvard Business School about the challenges and limitations employees face when participating in Employee Resource Groups, how organizational leaders can be more effective allies, and the critical importance of intersectional approaches to any work involving change.
Christine Marie Ortiz Guzman on how we are all “designers”

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Christine Marie Ortiz Guzman from Equity Meets Design about equity design and designers, organizational responsibilities to change, and the relationship between capital and lowercase “d” designers.
Candice Morgan on navigating inclusive strategy in tech

In this episode, we speak with Candice Morgan from GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) shares how to navigate inclusive strategies in organizations; how the “summer of protest” has moved the dial of accountability; and how the venture space can better practice antiracism.
Ifeoma Ajunwa on the limitless boundaries of employee surveillance

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa from the University of North Carolina School of Law about the legal and ethical implications of workplace surveillance in the age of remote work, wearable tech, and DNA testing.
The coauthored brand story

The way to mitigate the effects of negativity about a brand is to try to tip the balance towards the voices of more positive brand allies.
Impossible burgers won’t make men grow breasts (and other lies about your brand)

When seemingly ridiculous rumors become talking points, it’s time to focus on brand-building.
What fairness can learn from AI

By requiring us to determine what we count as “fair,” machine learning puts the burden on us to choose which values we deem relevant.
Leading through disruption

Sad but true: most companies’ digital transformation efforts fail due to “internal resistance to change.”

Events

Oct 20 2021

Financial Analysts’ Interest in Digitization and AI Investment in Non-IT Firms

Wilbur Chen from Harvard Business School

In this talk, Wilbur Chen from Harvard Business School will examine financial analysts’ interest in digitization and shows that analysts play a positive governance role in shaping digitization in Non-IT firms – by (1) analyzing/monitoring digitization activities and (2) nudging firms to invest more in AI when firms are not investing enough.

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Influencers

Wilbur Chen

Wilbur is a capital markets researcher studying the role of capital markets in the digitization of non-IT firms and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School.
Lumumba Seegars

Lumumba is a PhD candidate in the organizational behavior unit at Harvard Business School.
Karim Lakhani

Karim is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty co-founder of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, as well as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.
Marco Iansiti

Marco is the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School.
Raffaela Sadun

Raffaella is a professor of business administration in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School.
Yael Grushka-Cockayne

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

Herman (“Dutch”) is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and professor of public sector management at Harvard Kennedy School.
Hannah Riley Bowles

Hannah is the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School and co-directs the HKS Women and Public Policy Program.
Shelley Correll

Shelley is a professor of sociology and organizational behavior at Stanford University, the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, and the Director of the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab.
Lori Mackenzie

Lori is the Executive Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and the Co-Founder of Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab.
Hise Gibson

Hise is a colonel in the United States Army and a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School.
Jeffrey Furman

Jeff is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Boston University.
Amy Edmondson

Amy is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.
Ethan Bernstein

Ethan is an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. He also teaches the Developing Yourself as a Leader course at HBS Online.
Ernest Wilson

Ernest is a professor of communication and political science and is the founder and director of the USC Center for Third Space Thinking.