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  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

to give to everyone until he detects a habitual "taker" that can be eliminated from his "gift list." Servant leadership is only one approach to leading, and it isn't for everyone. But if servant leadership is as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

environments.” If central banks had used economic models that account for variations in the speed of firm’s pricing decisions rather than their traditional forecasting tools, policymakers might have detected rising inflation sooner,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

to make key decisions with the agility of System 1 (using Kahneman’s terminology) while within a larger System 2-developed strategic framework.” Chiding other respondents for not shedding more light on the role that bureaucracies can perform, Eric W. Taylor, Jr.... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Black-box Training Data Identification in GANs via Detector Networks

By: Lukman Olagoke, Salil Vadhan and Seth Neel
Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the underlying distribution, if... View Details
Keywords: Cybersecurity; Copyright; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

average, people tell one or two lies a day—often to partners, family members, friends, and work colleagues—many of them little white lies that are considered harmless. The negative consequences of a detected palter while negotiating can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

appear. In this session, we discuss the current Early Prediction – Early Detection – Early Intervention strategy, with its goal of preventing the onset of AD before symptoms arise or progress, and how we are now poised to take a giant... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

the fact that the company was short of cash as well as profits. Yet Enron's board failed to detect and prevent violations of accounting principles and rules. In the third week of October 2001, Arthur Andersen, Enron's highly compromised... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • Article

Effect of Different Financial Incentive Structures on Promoting Physical Activity Among Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

By: Chethan Bachireddy, Andrew Joung, Leslie K. John, Francesca Gino, Bradford Tuckfield, Luca Foschini and Katherine L. Milkman
Importance: Few adults engage in recommended levels of physical activity. Financial incentives can promote physical activity, but little is known about how their structure influences their effectiveness; for example, whether incentives are more effective if they are... View Details
Keywords: Physical Activity; Financial Incentives; Motivation and Incentives; Money
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  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Evidently the professor detected none of her sarcasm and gave her a B-minus. Huang avoided the mistake many people make: counting themselves out of the running based on the constraints other people place on them—or ones they place on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance.  There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

  • November 9, 2019
  • Article

Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • Portrait Project

Jourdan Henry

I sat at a square, stainless-steel table that was cold to the touch. Two New York City Police Department detectives were on either side of me. I was interrogated as they sought to uncover why a juice box was missing or how a window was... View Details
  • 13 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

having lied in negotiations, and everyone believes they've been lied to in these contexts," Malhotra says. "We may be able to improve the situation if we can equip people to detect and deter the unethical behavior of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & John Rusnak
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of critical... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 18 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

algorithm generates fair outcomes. As the algorithm sorts through information to optimize its objective, BEAT detects and eliminates bias at key points in the training process. For instance, BEAT could help a car service charge surge... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

third solution, based not on social media but on entertainment media. Entertainment algorithms loop back and forth from content that’s offered to a response detected until they identify something that appeals to you. Then they send more... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

incentives increased the detection of bad applications by 11 percent, thus boosting the profits per originated loans by 3 percent. "We found that when the stakes were higher, [participants] exerted more effort and made better... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • Web

Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples Implement regression... View Details