Events

In this event, four HBS alumni will share their efforts on the ground to drive this change through innovations in business operations, structured finance, public-private partnerships, and technological advancement with potential for impact across the global economy.

Join Allison Byers and Rebecca Moore for an AMA session about the unique considerations and challenges faced by those starting a business later in their career.

In this Ask Me Anything (AMA), Amit Mohindra reveals what you need to know - beyond the data science and technology - as a people analytics leader or practitioner to thrive and succeed using people analytics.

Join a community of entrepreneurs in weekly, live online sessions with Harvard University faculty and leaders around the globe to learn about opportunities in emerging economies focused on food systems, agriculture, nutrition, sustainability and food security. Learn how to navigate entrepreneurial opportunities across emerging markets and develop a capstone business plan.

Join Nils Wernerfelt, director of the Economics and Policy Research Team at Facebook as he discusses his experiment on estimating the value of offsite data to advertisers on Meta.

Join Avi Goldfarb, Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and a professor of marketing at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, as he discusses his book, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.

The Harvard Data Science Initiative Conference is a two-day event in Boston, MA that showcases data science in research and education through panels, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials featuring speakers from across Harvard, academia, and industry. The Conference connects expert methodologists, data science professionals and educators across disciplines to ignite new discoveries with impacts on health, education, economics, social policy, business, and the humanities.

Join Professor Emily Oster of Brown University and learn to critically evaluate news media portrayals of scientific studies and their meanings. Everyday Analytics will focus on key concepts in understanding and processing data, with the goal of developing fluency in applying them in a wide range of situations.

Join Oded Netzer, Vice Dean for Research and professor at Columbia Business School, discuss his new book, Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance Between Intuition and Information. Moderated by HBS Professor Ayelet Israeli.

Join Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School talk about how algorithms can exacerbate inequities when not carefully designed through the evaluation of automated speech recognition (ASR) tools. He will then describe a paradigm for designing equitable algorithms.

Join Professors Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg for a high-level introduction to the basics of machine learning for leaders.

Professor George Serafeim will sit down with Reynir Indahl to discuss his journey as founder of a private equity firm and his experience in raising and deploying capital in the resource transformation value chain. This conversation will center on the founder’s journey and how to address waste as an obstacle in business and sustainability through the design of new systems.