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      • 05 Jan 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 28 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?

      by Amitabh Chandra, Courtney Coile, and Corina Mommaerts

      This essay discusses the role of market frictions and "missing medicines" in drug innovation and highlights how frameworks and toolkits of economists can help our understanding of the determinants and effects of Alzheimer's disease on health.

      • 20 Aug 2020
      • Book

      From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Many technologies have upended long-held beliefs about love, sex, marriage, and reproduction, says Debora Spar in a new book, Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 18 Aug 2020
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Is a Pandemic the Best Time To Try Out a New Idea?

      Re: Mitchell B. Weiss

      Singapore's new nationwide, Bluetooth-based contact tracing program TraceTogether must overcome privacy issues to be effective. Would Singaporeans adopt TraceTogether? Professor Mitch Weiss discusses his new case study. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 11 Jun 2020
      • In Practice

      Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

      by Danielle Kost

      Experts from Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative discuss how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the coronavirus pandemic. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 May 2020
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Autonomous Vehicles Are Ready to Disrupt Society, Business—and You

      Re: Elie OfekRe: William R. Kerr

      The rise of autonomous vehicles has enormous implications for business and society. Professors William R. Kerr and Elie Ofek explore the factors influencing their development and commercialization. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 07 May 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

      by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

      Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso see risk-mitigating innovation everywhere the virus spreads. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

      by Kristen Senz

      Companies increasingly use software to conduct rapid price changes. Alexander MacKay explains why firms might benefit but consumers should be worried. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 06 Jan 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering and Wearable Computing

      by Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas

      Learning happens most reliably and efficiently when it is contextualized, personalized, and socialized. This is important for executive learning in particular and adult learning more generally. Innovators and educational designers can leverage technologies that enable sensing, interacting, computing, searching, and storing to produce learner-optimal experiences.

      • 20 Nov 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

      by Dina Gerdeman

      New research shows people don’t trust recommendations from algorithms—and that’s a problem for companies that increasingly rely on AI-based technology to persuade consumers. Michael H. Yeomans explains how businesses can overcome that bias. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 19 Nov 2019
      • Op-Ed

      Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

      by Karen G. Mills

      The possibility that Apple Card applicants were subject to gender bias opens a new frontier for the financial services sector in which regulators are largely absent, argues Karen Mills. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 04 Oct 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Soul and Machine (Learning)

      by Davide Proserpio, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano et al.

      This paper argues with examples and predictions that while marketing science theory, engineering, and machine learning capabilities are changing the way we think about marketing, true advances will come when marketing managers know when to trust the machine and when to trust their instincts.

      • 18 Sep 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Female Inventors and Inventions

      by Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson

      Does the gender of inventors make a difference for who benefits from their inventions? Analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents issued between 1976 and 2010 shows that research teams with women were more likely to produce patents addressing women’s health conditions, especially when female researchers led the teams. This link suggests that the dearth of women inventors might also result in fewer female-focused inventions.

      • 28 Aug 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device Industry

      by Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern

      Major industries are undergoing a digital transformation, in which key aspects of new product development are migrating to a software-driven context. In the medical device industry, experience matters, as does the geographic clustering of new product development, which gives advantages to both new entrants and incumbent firms.

      • 21 Aug 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

      by Michael Blanding

      Tarun Khanna and Prithwiraj Choudhury use machine-learning technology to look for links between a CEO's communications style and company performance. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Aug 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances

      by Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins

      Nine working papers by Srikant M. Datar and colleagues explore technologies pioneered during the late 20th century that US internists say have greatly improved patient care.

      • 10 Jun 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance

      by Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan

      More and more nontechnology companies are adopting digital technologies like AI, data analytics, and machine learning. This study of the economic performance of nontech firms adopting new digital technologies finds a persistent future increase in valuation. However, investors only slowly incorporate the value implications of digital activities into prices. Nontech companies with senior executives with tech talent improve performance more than those without.

      • 18 Apr 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

      by Martha Lagace

      Radiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for radiation therapy? Karim R. Lakhani discusses a unique open innovation experiment. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Apr 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      How Managers Stifle Creativity

      by Danielle Kost

      3QUESTIONS: Teresa Amabile discusses the roots of creativity, how to achieve more of it, and combining it with artificial intelligence. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 16 Apr 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India

      by Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons

      This paper shows the benefits of biometric technology for strengthening service delivery and improving reliability of government data. The technology improved productivity of health workers operating tuberculosis treatment centers and decreased misreporting.

      • 21 Mar 2019
      • HBS Case

      The Ferrari Way

      by Michael Blanding

      Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up to Stefan Thomke about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve success. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

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