Events

People increasingly use AI companions for emotional support, yet little is known about how these systems shape behavior at the moment users try to disengage. We identify a novel relational dark pattern in this context: emotionally manipulative farewell messages that appear when users signal they are about to leave. Across a multi-method investigation, we show […]

The Open and User Innovation (OUI) Society and the HBS AI Institute and Harvard Business School cordially invite you to the 23rd Annual International Conference on Open and User Innovation. For over two decades, the OUI Conference has served as a leading forum for research on how users, communities, and open systems drive innovation. In […]

Join Mark Fagan, author of Governing with AI: How the Public Sector Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Performance, for a practical webinar on how leaders can turn today’s AI moment into real public value. With generative AI accelerating, organizations and institutions are facing a critical nexus: exciting tools, high expectations, and very real risks to […]

Join us for The Prompt with Sangeet Paul Choudary, best-selling author of Reshuffle, as he invites us to think bigger about AI’s impact on the future. Rather than getting caught up in individual automation or task productivity, Choudary will unpack how AI reshapes organizations and competition, why constraints determine which AI-driven predictions will actually materialize, and […]

AI adoption is more than a technology decision. It is a strategic, organizational, and labor-market challenge. In this webinar, HBS AI Institute Associate Zoë Cullen will discuss new research on how firms respond to competitors’ use of AI and automation, and why employees may become guarded about sharing the expertise that AI systems need to learn from. […]

Karim Lakhani and Jackie Lane are hosting a new seminar series at Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3)’s LISH, spotlighting how Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies are transforming business and society. This is the third seminar in this series AI-Resilient Interfaces for Sensemaking and Beyond AI is powerful, but it can be wrong, contextually […]

Our goal at the AI Institute is to ensure the School’s alumni and other leaders have the AI knowledge, skills, and tools they need in the flow of work. We have been monitoring registrations for the Leading with AI 2026 conference, and they have not met our desired threshold to effectively serve our mission. As […]

Our goal at the AI Institute is to ensure the School’s alumni and other leaders have the AI knowledge, skills, and tools they need in the flow of work. We have been monitoring registrations for the Leading With AI 2026 conference, and they have not met our desired threshold to effectively serve our mission. As […]

Unlocking the problem-solving power of generative AI Join Mitch Weiss and Stephen Goldsmith for a conversation on how generative AI is beginning to reshape the practice of city government. Drawing on Goldsmith’s decades of experience leading data-driven reform and Weiss’s work on “possibility government,” this webinar examines how AI can move performance management beyond top-down […]

Karim Lakhani and Jackie Lane are hosting a new seminar series at Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3)’s LISH, spotlighting how Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies are transforming business and society. This is the third seminar in this series Speaker: Ashesh RambachanSilverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT Date and Time: […]

Hosted by Matt Nemesure, PhD, Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft and former Lead Data Scientist at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), D^3 Discussions: Making Better Decisions with AI introduces how you can use AI to support clearer thinking, better decisions, and more efficient workflows across many domains. We’ll explore how AI can […]

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, in collaboration with researchers at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI), Cornell University will host the Inaugural Advancing Frontiers Conference (AFC) – a fully virtual event scheduled for March 24, 2026. The conference, themed “Research to Innovation […]