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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.

Smarter Business Decisions with Mixture Adaptive Design (MAD)

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, decision-makers must be agile. In a recent paper, Biyonka Liang, PhD candidate in Statistics at Harvard University, and Iavor Bojinov, Assistant Professor of Business Administration at HBS and PI at D^3’s Data Science and AI Operations Lab, discuss their development of the Mixture Adaptive Design (MAD) to allow industry […]

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, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School and Principle Investigator of D^3’s Climate & Sustainability Impact […]

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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, Alberto Cavallo, and Paolo Mengano, along with Professor Alexander […]

Skill Over Effort: How GPT Outshines Humans in Reframing Negativity

How well can AI understand and reinterpret human emotions? In a revealing study by the Digital Emotions Lab, GPT-4 not only grasped the essence of human disappointments but also excelled in transforming these sentiments positively, outstripping humans in crafting cognitive reappraisals.

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