The Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard is now the Harvard Business School AI Institute.

Research

The HBS AI Associates Program advances research on artificial intelligence in organizations. 

We support research from Harvard faculty on how AI is transforming firms and organizations, delivering actionable insights for the public and practitioners.

Projects 

We have supported 25+ research projects from Harvard faculty across the following subject areas.

Human-AI Collaboration for Interpersonal and Group Decision-Making in Frontier Firms: Field Experiments in Behavioral Science AI Coaching
Hannah Riley Bowles, Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

AI Water Navigator: A Decision-Support Tool for Water and Power Utilities Managing AI-Driven Data Center Growth
Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Gianluca Guidi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Made by AI, Shared by Humans: How Generative AI Is Reshaping Advertising
Julian De Freitas, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School.

Safety and Clinical Impact of Large Language Models in Real-World Practice
Hannah K. Galvin, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Leveraging Generative AI to Optimally Select and Design Texts, Images, and Videos
Kosuke Imai, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Government and Statistics, Harvard University.

AI, Organizational Restructuring, and the Reallocation of Compensation
Aliya Korganbekova, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

The Effects of an AI Mentor on Employee Learning and Performance.
Tatiana Sandino, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Shelley Xin Li, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Analysis of AI Use in Private Markets.
Yuan Zou, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

Conversations at Scale: Memory-Enabled AI for Inclusive Labor Market Access in Pakistan
Livia Alfonsi, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. 

Labor as Data: Surveillance and the (Optimal) Expropriation of Skill 
Zoe B. Cullen, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Shengwu Li, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Danielle Li, David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management.

Understanding Information Barriers to AI Adoption in African Firms 
Ebehi Iyoha, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.  

The Impact of AI on Sales Performance and Organization
Christopher T. Stanton, Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School.

Preference for Explainable AI (XAI)  
Alex Chan, Assistant Professor of Business Administration. 

Improving Predict-then-Optimize Pipelines in AI-Assisted Refugee Resettlement 
Elisabeth C. Paulson, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. 

Talk to Me: Driving Customer Engagement with Interactive AI Avatars 
Julian De Freitas, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Elie Ofek, Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing

The Effects of an Artificial-Intelligence-Powered Financial Counselor on the Financial Decision-Making and Well-Being of Low-Income, High-Debt Households: Evidence from a Large-Scale Legal Technology Non-Profit  
Ray Kluender, Associate Professor and Berol Corporation Fellow, Harvard Business School. 

Tackling the Chatbot Personality Problem
Hanspeter Pfister, An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Martin Wattenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Fernanda Viegas, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Sally Starling Seaver Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. 

Differentially Private Software Tools for Data Analytics
Salil Vadhan, Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Harvard University.

Government Agents  
Mitchell B. Weiss, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice and Emma Bloomberg Professor, Harvard Business School.

The GenAI Adoption Tracker 
David Deming, Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Adam Blandin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Organizational Design  
Boris Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration.

National Security and Technological Interdependence: The Promise and Perils of AI and Internet of Things (IoT) in Mapping and Securing Global Supply Chains and Partnerships
Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. 

Leveraging AI and LLM Models to Enhance Patient-Provider Communication 
Susanna Gallani, Tai Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.
Lidia Moura, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Valdery Moura Junior, AI Researcher & Senior Data Scientist, Center for AI and Biomedical Informatics of the Learning Healthcare System (CAIBILS), Mass General Brigham.

Sustaining Human Vigilance in “Human-in-the-loop” AI Systems through Controlled Error Injection 
Michael Lingzhi Li, Assistant Professor of Business Administration.

Predicting the Future of Work: Leveraging LLM-Powered Generative Agents to Simulate Employee Responses to Organizational Wellbeing Interventions  
Ashley V. Whillans, Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration.

Global narrative on AI and other key technologies: from zero-sum competition to win-win collaborations  
David Yang, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. 

Artificial Intelligence Driven Insights 
Shikhar Ghosh, MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration.