Events

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.

In the introductory session of the Generative AI Observatory’s summer series, Prof. Shikhar Ghosh and Prof. Hanspeter Pfister will give an overview of how GenAI got to where it is now, where it’s headed, and begin digging into the far-reaching impacts and transformational potential of this technology. We will continue building on these topics in subsequent sessions.

Join us on May 22nd at 12pm ET for an interactive workshop on Participatory Design! In this latest installment of the Responsible Innovation Series, we’ll be discussing how you and your organization can ensure a product-market fit that works for you, your clients, and the world by designing with users to create culturally responsive, life-centered innovations.

Join Prof. Suraj Srinivasan of the Digital Value Lab at D^3 to a panel discussion on Generative AI in Finance.

AI Product Management and Strategy, a D^3 Learning Sprint offered in partnership with the Harvard Business Analytics Program, is a 5-session program that will provide a thorough overview of the AI Product Management role within a tech organization or startup. You will learn how to bring impactful AI-enhanced products to life without any prior technical knowledge required. Front-Row participants will also have the opportunity to team up with fellow learners in order to define their own AI product end to end, with the assistance of instructor-provided resources and frameworks.

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 this Ask Me Anything (AMA), Jeremy Evans-Smith, co-founder of Full Cycle, will discuss equity-promoting alternatives to VC funding for undercapitalized communities.

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.

In this session, we’ll dig into how new products can be created inclusively and equitably. Product inclusion experts from Google, Uber, and more will be joining us to share their insights about how to incorporate these vital elements from ideation to design to implementation in this upcoming panel.