Yale SOM 50: Data, AI, and the Future of Business and Society

About

New developments in AI and data science are rapidly transforming business and changing how society functions. Drawing on Yale SOM's deep roots in data science and its perspective on the AI revolution, Professor Song Ma will moderate a discussion with Professor Kevin Williams and AI experts Bryce Hall ’12 and Beth Goldberg ’18 about how business and societal leaders can deploy these tools responsibly—to drive innovation, sharpen decision-making, and generate value for organizations and society alike.

This event is open to the Yale and SOM communities.

Meet the speakers

Kevin Williams is a professor of economics at Yale some whose research is in the area of industrial organization. His work brings new data, models, and methods to examine the complex product offerings and pricing strategies employed by firms that operate amidst demand and competitive uncertainty and sell to customers with disparate tastes and willingness to pay. His research analyzes markets where dynamics play a pivotal role, such as airlines, and spatial settings, such as retailers, and has been published in leading economic journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota.

Bryce Hall ’12 is AVP of Technology Strategy at Humana, where he focuses on technology and AI transformation to improve health outcomes and people’s experiences with the healthcare system. Previously, he served as a Senior Expert on AI and Associate Partner at McKinsey and was a member of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. Bryce was a lead author of McKinsey’s annual State of AI research and co-led the development of McKinsey’s Digital and AI Transformation Playbook. His widely cited writing has appeared in McKinsey publications, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Beth Goldberg '18 is the inaugural Executive Director of Humanity AI and a Senior Fellow teaching at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs. At Humanity AI, she is building the largest philanthropic coalition to invest in a more humane future in which AI is shaped by and for people. She has held senior roles at the intersection of technology, human rights, and democracy. Most recently, she served as the Head of R&D at Jigsaw, a Google incubator that builds free and open-source technologies to advance human agency and open societies. Beth holds graduate degrees from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.