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Performance and Metrics

This community of practice elevates participants’ comprehension of performance measurement and metrics within the realm of business. Here, academic luminaries and industry experts converge to scrutinize the latest methodologies, tools, and best practices in quantifying success and driving strategic decision-making. Participants immerse themselves in the realms of experimentation, data analytics, and benchmarking to unearth profound insights that catalyze enhanced organizational and financial performance. Together, they explore how to advance and harness the formidable power of data-driven decision-making, elevating businesses to new echelons of excellence.

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 […]

The Future of Decision-Making: How Generative AI Transforms Innovation Evaluation

As businesses grapple with an ever-growing volume of ideas, products, and solutions to evaluate, decision-making processes are being reshaped by artificial intelligence (AI). Generative AI, in particular, has emerged as a game-changer in creative problem-solving and evaluation, as demonstrated by a recent field experiment described in the working paper “The Narrative AI Advantage? A Field […]

Bridging the Gap Between Understanding and Control: Insights into AI Interpretability

As large language model (LLM) systems grow in complexity, the challenge of ensuring their outputs align with human intentions has become critical. Interpretability—the ability to explain how models reach their decisions—and control—the ability to steer them toward desired outcomes—are two sides of the same coin. “Towards Unifying Interpretability and Control: Evaluation via Intervention”—research by Usha […]

The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Strategic Decision-Making

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance rapidly, its potential to transform strategic decision-making processes in business is becoming increasingly apparent, but how can strategists be sure their AI tools are getting it right? A recent study, “Generative Artificial Intelligence and Evaluating Strategic Decisions”,  by researchers Anil R. Doshi, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship […]

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