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AI and analytics impact stories
Bridging real estate and data science
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An increasing number of commercial real estate assets are becoming obsolete, due to shifting market conditions, evolving work patterns, and sustainability imperatives. JLL, a global leader in real estate services and solutions, needed a framework that would help predict this obsolescence, assess inv...
Enhancing AI-assisted coding at Google Colab
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AI-assisted coding is reshaping how coding is taught, learned, and applied in practice. For years, Google Colab has empowered students, developers, and researchers with a freely accessible, cloud-hosted Jupyter Notebook environment right in their browser. However, Google software engineers noticed ...
Space, robots, and a new AI frontier
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Accenture is a global leader in professional services, with over 700,000 employees and clients across 120 countries. Renowned for its work in strategy, technology, and digital transformation, the firm has recently expanded into the robotics and space technology sectors. As they explore how to use AI...
Generative AI to advance human rights
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The International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD) is a human rights advocacy organization that equips those most harmed by systemic inequity with the necessary tools to drive systemic change. ICAAD empowers marginalized communities by building their capacity, strengthening their ...
The Power of Patients—and A-Lab
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After her daughter's traumatic brain injury (TBI), Lynne Becker became an entrepreneur on a mission—a mission to share with others what she learned about TBI. And ultimately, a mission to accelerate research and clinical trials. Two student teams taking MIT Sloan’s Analytics Lab (A-Lab) helped her t...
Rethinking urban mobility in Europe
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The City of Leuven, Belgium sought to leverage digital technologies and advanced analytics to promote sustainable urban mobility. To make this happen, the city collaborated with global digital engineering company and Smart Industry leader Akkodis – and a team of Master of Business Analytics (MBAn) s...
Is generative AI creating shareholder value in publicly listed companies?
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Bain & Company’s clients want to know how they can use generative AI (GenAI) to add value to their businesses. In order to make recommendations, Bain & Company Partner Jennifer Smith, MBA ’11, and Senior Manager Enrico Innocenti, MBA ’18, needed more information. They enlisted a team of six Prosemin...
From AI to entrepreneurship: How Gowri Kannan’s project with a tech startup solidified her ambitions
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Gowri Kannan, MBA ’24, originally studied engineering and AI as an undergraduate — but she realized that she wanted to have greater influence on product creation and customer experience, and maybe even launch her own company someday. A hands-on MIT Sloan Action Learning project with a nascent startu...
Developing a strategy to reduce airport wait times
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Computer vision and data analytics can generate real-time information about operations, creating a major opportunity to reduce wait times. In fall 2021, United Airlines asked a team of students in Enterprise Management Lab to develop a strategy for leveraging such technologies to reduce wait times i...
Machine learning project supports UN Mine Action Service
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UNMAS tasked A-Lab with developing a machine learning model that could use satellite imagery to detect the presence of buildings and roads—key indicators of development— in areas of Afghanistan that UNMAS had cleared of explosives.