The D^3 Associates Program is designed to support and accelerate faculty research into the ways AI and digital technologies are reshaping companies, organizations, society, and practice.
We aim to achieve this by engaging with faculty members at Harvard Business School by offering funding for both new and ongoing research projects.
Call for Proposals
We invite proposals that advance knowledge on how AI is reshaping business from faculty members at Harvard University.
The application deadline is September 30, 2025. Selected projects will be funded at approximately $50,000.
Frequently Asked Questions
You may view our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for common questions about the D^3 Associates Program.
D^3 Associates Awardees
D^3 Associates for 2025 – 2026 include the following Harvard faculty and collaborators.
January 2026 Cohort
Livia Alfonsi
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Title: Career Conversations at Scale: Memory-Enabled AI for Inclusive Labor Market Access in Pakistan
Zoe B. Cullen
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Title: Labor as Data: Surveillance and the (Optimal) Expropriation of Skill
Collaborators:
Shengwu Li, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Danielle Li, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management
David Deming
Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Title: The GenAI Adoption Tracker
Collaborator:
Adam Blandin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University
Ebehi Iyoha
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Title: Understanding Information Barriers to AI Adoption in African Firms
Christopher T. Stanton
Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Title: The Impact of AI on Sales Performance and Organization
Salil Vadhan
Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Title: Differentially Private Software Tools for Data Analytics
Colaborator:
Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University
July 2025 Cohort
Alex Chan
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Title: Preference for Explainable AI (XAI)
Julian De Freitas
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Elie Ofek
Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing
Title: Talk to Me: Driving Customer Engagement with Interactive AI Avatars
Michael Lingzhi Li
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Title: Sustaining Human Vigilance in “Human-in-the-loop” AI Systems through Controlled Error Injection
Boris Groysberg
Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration
Title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Organizational Design
Ashley V. Whillans
Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration
Title: Predicting the Future of Work: Leveraging LLM-Powered Generative Agents to Simulate Employee Responses to Organizational Wellbeing Interventions
January 2025 Cohort
Susanna Gallani
Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Title: Leveraging AI and LLM Models to Enhance Patient-Provider Communication
Collaborators:
Lidia Moura, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Raymond P. Kluender
Assistant Professor and Berol Corporation Fellow, Harvard Business School.
Title: The Effects of an Artificial-Intelligence-Powered Financial Counselor on the Financial Decision-Making and Well-Being of Low-Income, High-Debt Households: Evidence from a Large-Scale Legal Technology Non-Profit
Hanspeter Pfister
An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Title: Tackling the Chatbot Personality Problem
Collaborators:
Martin Wattenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Fernanda Viegas, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sally Starling Seaver Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Elisabeth C. Paulson
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Title: Improving Predict-then-Optimize Pipelines in AI-Assisted Refugee Resettlement
Meg Rithmire
James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Title: National Security and Technological Interdependence: The Promise and Perils of AI and Internet of Things (IoT) in Mapping and Securing Global Supply Chains and Partnerships
David Yang
Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
Title: Global narrative on AI and other key technologies: from zero-sum competition to win-win collaborations
Mitchell B. Weiss
Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.
Title: Government Agents
Shikhar Ghosh
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration
Title: Artificial Intelligence Driven Insights
Contact Us
You may contact our team at d3associates@hbs.edu.