Top global executives join forces to support the Institute’s mission of making AI research for advancing business and society accessible to all The Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) recently announced the launch of its Advisory Council and Industry Council to further its focus on using AI and digital technologies to advance business and society. The […]
In tournament-based organizations, managerial discretion in hiring significantly impacts performance and stability. Managers may sabotage by hiring lower-ability candidates to avoid future competition, a practice known as “selection sabotage.” Researchers Peiran Xiao and Hashim Zaman propose a “head start” mechanism to counteract this by giving managers an advantage in the tournament, encouraging them to hire […]
Are you tired all the time? Have trouble sleeping? You’re not alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1-in-3 adults in the United States reported not getting enough rest or sleep every day. For the 20 million shift workers in the US—nurses, doctors, first responders, warehouse workers, truck drivers, etc.— being […]
Discover the latest publications from worldwide news outlets on the work of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Dive in below. Fortune Newsletter You’ll Probably Need to Learn a New Acronym to Keep Up with the Latest AI Trend By: Sage Lazarro InnoLead Four AI Questions Organizations Need to be Discussing By: Scott Kirsner […]
BOSTON – The Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) announced today two multi-year corporate partnerships and one research partnership, a first since the Institute’s inception in 2022. The corporate partners include JPMorgan Chase and Boston Consulting Group, who will work with Harvard and Harvard Business School faculty and researchers within their labs at D^3 […]
The Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Startup Foundry launched in 2023 to support and activate academic-led entrepreneurship at Harvard. Like all good entrepreneurs, it began with experiments, testing various formats, processes, and programs, piloting with early customers and tweaking to meet market needs while producing an MVP. As the first program of its kind […]
Launched in November 2023, the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Startup Foundry supports Harvard’s academic-led innovation in AI and digital business, offering the necessary business and technical guidance to turn research projects into thriving ventures. Among the inaugural cohort for the Foundry was TeamBirth. Initially a program under the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne […]
On October 22-23, the Digital Reskilling Lab hosted the “Revitalize, Reinvent, Reskill: Unlocking Workforce Productivity” conference, a collaborative effort between the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and Managing the Future of Work at Harvard Business School. This event convened business leaders and reskilling practitioners to engage in discussions on reskilling methodologies and share cutting-edge […]
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), new research from Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard chair and co-founder Karim Lakhani Karim R. Lakhani and others explores field experimental evidence of the effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality. It involved evaluating the performance of 758 consultants, which make up 7% of the individual […]
In Creating a Sustainable Future: Unlock the Potential of a Circular Economy, the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute and Freelancer have partnered to host a crowdsourcing competition to learn new ways to adopt the circular economy for impact across business and sustainability