Events

Join us for an enlightening discussion on Generative AI and its profound impact on businesses, operations, regulations, and beyond. Our event will feature a talk by Bratin Saha, providing valuable insights into how enterprises harness the power of AI and machine learning to transform their operations and navigate complex regulatory landscapes.

In today's dynamic business landscape, the realm of healthcare organizations presents a multitude of untapped possibilities for innovation. Unveiling these prospects hinges on the active involvement of frontline clinicians and staff in the art of organizational troubleshooting, a process streamlined through structured methods such as innovation contests. During this enlightening session, we will unveil insights derived from our extensive research and experiential knowledge amassed through orchestrating innovation contests across a comprehensive array of 54 federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). Join us to discover how the convergence of innovation contests and healthcare organizations can be harnessed to foster transformation, leverage untapped potential, and usher in a new era of responsive and efficient business practices.

Now more than ever, harnessing the power of data & AI strategy has become paramount for organizations seeking sustainable success. In this engaging talk, Samir Sharma will guide attendees through a transformative journey, highlighting the crucial link between data, AI, and organizational value. By delving into effective operating models through a case study, this talk will provide participants with an approach on how to operationalize their data & AI strategies, embedding this into the organizational DNA.

While many studies have examined contributors’ participation in open source software (OSS) communities, limited attention has been paid to the quality of their contribution. We build on von Hippel and von Krogh’s (2003) idea of private benefits and develop a model to examine how new comer contributors’ decisions regarding i) continued participation and ii) effort investment (in subsequent contribution) are affected by their beliefs about the private benefits they expect to obtain, and how the formation of such beliefs depends on their initial interactions with project gatekeepers.

Join us for an insightful session as we delve into the latest advancements in hardware and computing. Explore the rapid growth of computation power in handheld and personal devices, while addressing the challenge of thermal dissipation and potential upcoming solutions. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead in the evolving world of technology.

Join us for an enlightening event featuring Dr. Broderick Turner, renowned researcher and Business in Global Society Fellow at Harvard Business School. Dr. Turner is the driving force behind the Technology, Race, and Prejudice (T.R.A.P.) Lab, which aims to uncover the complex dynamics of marketing, technology, racism, and emotion.

As technology is improving, more and more tools are utilized to improve well-being. Join Daron Sharps, Dor Skuler, and Glen Moriarty, pioneers in the field of digital well-being for a panel discussion on the future of WellTech. Moderated by Professor Amit Goldenberg.

Scholars have implicated racial wealth inequality in racial disparities in business ownership and success, and education debt. However, we know less about the extent to which entrepreneurial returns from educational achievement potentially vary by race, and the potential impact of education debt on racial inequality in entrepreneurship. In this talk, Daniel Auguste addresses this gap in the literature by examining the extent of the profit that black and white entrepreneurs gain from their ventures, how it varies by their educational achievement, and the degree to which student loan debt affects racial differences in business profit.

Catherine Thomas at the London School of Economics will discuss her study on the magnitude and distribution of surplus in an online labor market for the knowledge worker gig economy.

Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America’s founder, will discuss what it would really mean to recode American government. Join us for a candid Q&A with Jennifer led by Mitchell Weiss, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School.

In a 20-month ethnographic study, Summer R. Jackson of Harvard Business School examines how a technology firm, “ShopCo” (a pseudonym), considered 13 different recruitment platforms to attract racial minority engineering candidates.

Sam Ransbotham at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College will discuss his study about using the context of chess to understand how people can learn with machines through four elements of experiential learning (concrete experience, active experimentation, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization).