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Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) - MBA
within sections to experiment with identifying and surfacing class tensions—one example of that was a “Class Confessions” program in which students anonymously shared their connections to wealth and money and their anxieties therein. It...
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
BSSE." For more than a decade, Huber visited Christensen's class twice a year, sitting anonymously in the back of the room while students tore OnStar apart, and then introducing himself to their chagrin. "I was their...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ranging from subtle suggestion to social ostracism, if not outright retaliation. Absentee and anonymous shareholders are unlikely to experience such influences. Thus, as a practical matter, shareholders cannot be made more accountable...
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by Carla Tishler
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Kiatpongsan%20Norton%20PPS_31f17547-5033-401c-8ed2-ccc9b6a2b433.pdf Working Papers Bitcoin By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online communication protocol that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
to technological race Sometimes content is unreliable (spoof files) Decentralized—makes it hard No anonymity Itunes Strengths Weaknesses Legal Customers must pay for content (relatively expensive at $0.99) Easy to use Restrictions on...
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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
seeking regular feedback through anonymous surveys or other safe forums. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (also sold as Edy's) is a fantastic example of the last two strategies. In the late 1980s, several employees accused Dreyer's leaders of...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Gallery, New YorkThe recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and internationally renowned for his mixed-media installations that feature conté crayon and charcoal portraits of anonymous African Americans, Whitfield Lovell explores themes...
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- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
address corruption by self-reporting their experiences online. Since corruption flourishes where information is murky, the goal is transparency, leveraging the ubiquity and anonymity of the Internet. People who have endured incidents like...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating...
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April White
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
inequality. And rising inequality is directly imperiling democracy. Rather than a screed against capitalism, this book is a call for capitalism to return to its roots, reenergizing its synergies with democracy. Raymond Baker explains the tax havens, secrecy...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea, ThinKloud, a mental health tool that provides anonymous peer-to-peer support group services, from concept to customer in one day, fueled, as most startups are, by coffee, sugar, and adrenaline.
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- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than a year after the law was...
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- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
(Dot) Com Karthik Ramanna and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 112-078 Anti-corruption web platform "ipaidabribe.com" leverages the transparency and anonymity of the Internet to encourage private citizens in India...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by exercising their right to have...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
curators. When the exhibition opened in March, officials announced that some of the paintings portraying supposedly anonymous figures had been retitled with the names of their models. The French artist, Marie-Guillemine Benoist's Portrait...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, ranks unproduced scripts based on View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for...
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Sean Silverthorne