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Leading People in an Anxious World

Harvard Business Review

While not the major reason, I believe that one factor in his choice to hire us is that we shared a similar, albeit, contrarian view of the widespread lockdown, and he read something into that about my work ethic and that of a few colleagues who rode bikes, walked or drove into city.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

That’s what we’ve concluded from our own proof-of-concept project, applying machine learning to a dataset of over one million bond court cases (in joint work with Himabindu Lakkaraju and Jure Leskovec of Stanford University). Are these machine learning tools really worth paying attention to?