Data Science Challenges in Management and Decision Sciences
Website: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/conferences/data-science-challenges-in-management-and-decision-sciences/Pages/default.aspx
Contact: lmarshman@hbs.edu
*** Workshop Topics and Motivation ****
Applications are being solicited for the Data Science Challenges in Management and Decision Sciences. This workshop, hosted by HBS-IMS New Researchers Group, will be held April 9-10, 2020 on the Harvard Business School campus.
The workshop is geared toward junior faculty members in the data sciences, management, and decision sciences communities. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for sharing cross-disciplinary research and to introduce a broad community of junior scholars to cutting-edge methods and substantive areas. We aim to open up common ground for future discussions and ultimately to spur collaborations between researchers who are using, or wish to use, data science in their research. In addition to short presentations from junior faculty, the workshop will feature panels of senior researchers (confirmed list below) focused on publishing in multiple outlets and collaboration across disciplines.
*** Submission ****
We invite Assistant Professors across statistics, data science, operations research, strategy, management, information systems, and marketing science to apply. As part of your application to participate, please provide a current CV, a title, and an abstract on a topic that you would present as part of a lighting presentation. Working papers and open problems are encouraged. Those invited to participate will have travel and accommodations paid for.
The deadline for submitting the application is February 6th. Notifications about acceptance will be made by February 10th. Please submit applications by email to dscmds@hbs.edu.
*** Confirmed Workshop Speakers ***
Communicating with A Broader Public
Amy Bernstein
Editor of Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business School
https://digital.hbs.edu/people/amy-bernstein/
Xiao-Li Meng
Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Data Science Review
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/people/xiao-li-meng
Publishing
Edoardo Airoldi
Millard E. Gladfelter Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Director of the Fox School's Data Science Center
Temple Fox School of Business
https://www.fox.temple.edu/mcm_people/edoardo-airoldi/
David Simchi-Levi
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Co-Director of Leaders for Global Operations, Editor-in-Chief of Management Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/david-simchi-levi/
K. Sudhir
James L. Frank '32 Professor of Marketing, Private Enterprise and Management, Founder-Director of the Yale China India Insights Program, Editor-in-Chief of Marketing Science
Yale School of Management
https://som.yale.edu/faculty/k-sudhir
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Susan Murphy
Professor of Statistics, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute Harvard University, Professor of Computer Science
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~samurphy/
Jeffrey Polzer
UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management
Harvard Business School
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6627
Kannan Srinivasan
H.J. Heinz II Professor of Management, Marketing and Business Technologies
CMU Tepper School of Business
https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/faculty-and-research/faculty-by-area/profiles/srinivasan-kannan.html
Sha Yang
Ernest Hahn Professor of Marketing
USC Marshall School of Business
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/sha-yang
Juanjuan Zhang
John D. C. Little Professor of Marketing
MIT Sloan School of Management
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/juanjuan-zhang
*** Workshop Co-Organizers ***
Shunyuan Zhang, Harvard Business School
Alexandra Feldberg, Harvard Business School
Iavor Bojinov, Harvard Business School
Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University
*** Important Dates ***
Abstract submission deadline 6 February 2020
Notification of acceptance 10 February 2020
Workshop sessions 9-10 April 2020
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Shunyuan Zhang
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
Boston MA
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