Machine learning algorithms learn by experience. Thus, they may replicate societal bias contained in the data they are fed, argue Dirk Hovy and Debora Nozza in the third episode of the Clarity in a Messy World podcast
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The Clarity in a Messy World series is for an intellectually curious, internationally oriented audience, eager to get to the roots of the most confounding issues of our time
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New research by Anatoli Colicev finds an unexpected link between marketing and finance: investor behavior of short sellers, who buy private data on customer dissatisfaction and satisfaction in order to choose or avoid targets. Interestingly, the negative effect of dissatisfaction is 2.39 times larger than the positive effect of satisfaction
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The University is investing in human resources even in the midst of the COVID emergency. Among the new arrivals is Ron Burt, one of the most cited applied sociologists in the world and father of structural holes theory
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An experiment by Anastasia Nanni and Aulona Ulqinaku shows that interactive virtual tours can improve people's attitudes towards cultural institutions in times of COVID
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Three Bocconi scholars found an algorithmic bias in the systems of Google, Bing, and DeepL, when translating from several European languages into English
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According to a study published in Marketing Science, platforms could make the process more efficient and improve the success rate of funding by providing more information about investors who have already supported a project. This would trigger a following and imitation process
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Health, Economy, Finance and Business, Society and Legal System: these are the four research areas of the new laboratory directed by epidemiologist Alessia Melegaro. An interdisciplinary center that brings together over 30 social science researchers
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We are more likely to buy things similar in shape to whatever we have in our hands while shopping, studies by Zachary Estes find
read moreFederico Bianchi, Debora Nozza, and Dirk Hovy released a freely available package for sentiment analysis and emotion recognition in Italian, overcoming the linguistic and economic limitations of similar tools
Accounting is no more just about bookkeeping or double entry: it's about information. Reporting rules affect both managerial behavior and our lives, according to Annalisa Prencipe, KPMG Chair in Accounting
According to Alex Turrini, the pandemic acted as a digital transformation accelerator, as never before
Two recent studies on food systems in Europe and the pandemic highlight just how vulnerable to disruption these systems are
From the homepage of Bocconi COVID Crisis Lab readers can go to a mapping app developed by Marco Bonetti and Ugofilippo Basellini and monitor the epidemic in Italy
New research by Guido Tabellini shows that the risk of creating a hidden subsidy for uncompetitive firms should not hold back governments and banks from providing firms with credit during the COVID19 pandemic
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Marc Rysman (Boston University)
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Ruben Durante (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Berkeley Haas
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Paula Jarzabkowski (Cass Business School)
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