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Apr 26

Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Hybrid Event
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.
  • Catherine Thomas
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Apr 25

Book Talk: Recoding America

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Hybrid Event
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.
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Apr 20

Thinking Smaller – Reconsidering venture capital’s role in economic liberation for undercapitalized communities

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual Event
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.
  • Jeremy Evans-Smith
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Apr 18

Tech-Enabled DEI Products and Organizational Inequality

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Hybrid Event
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.
  • Summer R. Jackson
Two people discussing a prototype
Apr 14

Session II: Product Inclusion Panel

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual Event
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.
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Apr 12

Learning from and with Machines

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Hybrid Event
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).
  • Sam Ransbotham
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Apr 6

Using AI? Great. But Using AI No Longer Differentiates

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual Event
Join Sam Ransbotham as he discusses: How frequently individuals actually use AI at work and how that use contributes to organizational value; How individual use of AI fosters competence, autonomy, and relatedness to others — three essential elements of self-determination; and How leaders can encourage individual AI use that will benefit their organizations.
  • Sam Ransbotham
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Apr 4

Fake It When You Make It:Authenticity Strategies and Ethnoracial Inequality in American Fine Dining

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm In Person Event
In this talk, Gillian Gualtieri of Barnard College explores the case of American fine dining to attend to the ways in which the ethnoracial categories of both producers and their products in interaction shape how chefs and critics understand their value.
  • Gillian Gualtieri
Generative AI Speakers -
Mar 21

The Generative AI Moment: implications for society and business

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Virtual Event
Harvard faculty Chris Bavitz, David Parkes, and Hima Lakkaraju will lead a panel discussion, moderated by Karim Lakhani, on Generative AI. The Digital Data & Design Institute at Harvard (D3) and the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) present a panel discussion on generative AI models and their impact on the knowledge economy. Generative AI models are among the most […]
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Mar 21

Remanufacturing Consent: How Algorithmic Management Repurposes Workplace Consent

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Hybrid Event
In this talk, Lindsey D. Cameron of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania explores how the shift from human to algorithms as managers on digital platforms reconfigures and repurposes workplace consent.
  • Lindsey D. Cameron
David Polgar headshot
Mar 16

Session I: Building a Responsible Tech Ecosystem

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Virtual Event
Join All Tech Is Human founder David Ryan Polgar for a discussion about strengthening the nascent Responsible Tech ecosystem with more voices, collaboration, and speed so we can tackle complex tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.
  • David Polgar
Faculty and Speakers for Harms of Chat GPT
Mar 9

The Hidden Harms of Chat-GPT Underlying Language Models

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Virtual Event
Harvard Business School Faculty Seth Neel and Tsedal Neeley will lead a case discussion about the harms of Chat-GPT and other Large Language Models.

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