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60 percent of the content we share on our Monday morning meetings is about AI.

Mickey Mikitani, D^3 Advisory Council Member and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc.

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is a superpower

The Business Impact of AI Innovations: Driving Profitability and Growth

As AI technologies continue to evolve and diffuse throughout the economy, understanding their value and impact on innovation has become increasingly important. Human decision-making plays a crucial role in the development and implementation of AI, with significant implications for stakeholders across industries, from investors and firms to policymakers and society at large. In their working […]

Unlocking Growth: How Private Equity Fuels Digital Transformation Across Industries

In the last few years, businesses have seen a significant shift towards digitalization, transforming industries and opening new opportunities for growth and innovation. Private equity (PE) investors, who traditionally focused on stable industries, are now playing a major role in speeding up this digital shift. Recent research by Brian K. Baik Brian Baik , Wilbur […]

D^3’s AI Lab for Startups Introduces New Cohort of AI-Powered Ventures

After a successful pilot of the program, the AI Lab for Startups is  thrilled to announce its latest cohort of innovative founders. These remarkable, academic-led ventures, emerging from various labs across Harvard, are breaking new ground in their respective industries, with AI at the core of their innovations. Through the support and resources provided by […]

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Understanding Webmunk: A Game-Changer for Online Behavior Research

The internet’s dominance in modern economic and social activities makes understanding online behavior critical for businesses, policymakers, and researchers. However, traditional tools for measuring this behavior have significant limitations, especially for independent researchers without access to proprietary user data from technology companies. In response to this challenge, Webmunk, an open-source tool, offers a promising solution. […]

Streamlining Data Processing for Smarter Business Decisions

Effective data processing and analysis are key factors for businesses that want to make informed decisions. The working paper “Empirical Guidance: Data Processing and Analysis with Applications in Stata, R, and Python”  by Michael W. Toffel Mike Toffel , Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School and Principle Investigator of D^3’s Climate […]

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transforms productivity

Organizations have four questions to answer: What useful thing you do is no longer valuable? What impossible thing can you do now? What can you move downmarket or democratize? What can you move upmarket and personalize?

Ethan Mollick, Leading with AI Conference Featured Speaker and Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Navigating Markups and Cost Pass-through: What Business Leaders Need to Know

Understanding how costs are passed through along the supply chain is critical for business professionals who want to effectively navigate inflationary pressures and pricing strategies. In the working paper “Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain”, members of the D^3 Pricing Lab Santiago E. Alvarez Santiago Ernesto Alvarez-Blaser , Alberto Cavallo Alberto Cavallo , […]

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Driving AI, Data, and Diversity Forward

In a recent interview with the D^3 team, Debbie Botha, a global Digital, Data, and AI coach, as well as a D^3 industry council member and steering committee member of D^3’s upcoming conference, “AI Elevate: From Readiness to Exponential Growth”, shared insights on the rapidly evolving field of AI and data leadership. She discussed trends […]

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