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The winners will be management teams that immerse themselves in [generative AI] – you can’t outsource this. Leaders need to make this part of their daily work.

Mary Erdoes, D^3 Advisory Council Member and CEO of Asset & Wealth Management, JP Morgan Chase

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Entrepreneurial Advice: Insights from Bayesian Learning

In the fast-paced and competitive world of entrepreneurship, advice can be a powerful tool for success or a potential pitfall. Recent research by Susan Cohen, Associate Professor, Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, and Rembrand Koning, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Principal Investigator in the Tech for […]

Climate Solution Firms: Investment Strategy and Risk Management

As the global economy grapples with the pressing challenges of climate change, a new paradigm is emerging in the world of finance and investment. In their working paper, “Climate Solutions, Transition Risk, and Stock Returns,“ researchers Shirley Lu, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an affiliate of the HBS Digital […]

Advancing Privacy in Dynamic Data: Concurrent Composition in Continual Mechanisms

In an era where data is constantly evolving and privacy concerns are paramount, the work of Monika Henzinger, a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria; Roodabeh Safavi, a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria; and Salil Vadhan, the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied […]

Enabling Healthcare Access through RE-Assist

A recent post from the blackbox Lab at Harvard Business School’s Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute, “Bridging the Care Gap: How RE-Assist Enhances Healthcare Access,” featured a conversation between James W. Riley, Principal Investigator of the lab and Assistant Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and Ashley Barrow, Principal Product Owner of RE-Assist. Their […]

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80% of challenges are attributed to people issues, and only 20% due to technology.

Debbie Botha, D^3 Industry Council Member and Co-Founder and Managing Director, Dalebrook Media

The Myth of Machine Unlearning: The Complexities of AI Data Removal

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes our digital landscape, the concept of “machine unlearning” (ML) has emerged as a potential solution to various challenges in AI governance. First authors A. Feder Cooper, Faculty Associate at The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Research Scientist at […]

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