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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
ads. But when this practice feels invasive to people, it can prompt a strong backlash. Marketers today need to understand where to the draw the line. The good news is that psychologists already know a lot about what triggers privacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
case examines the dilemmas Hastings faced as he planned the contest, such as whether to use an existing crowdsourcing platform or create his own, what company information to expose, how to protect customer privacy while making internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
increased disclosure is driven by reduced privacy concerns (study 2). Yet observers’ impressions of sharers are insensitive to permanence (i.e., whether the selfie was shared temporarily versus permanently) and are instead driven by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
the effect arises by affecting people's judgments of the intrusiveness of the inquiries; Study 2C goes further by showing that the effect is altered when privacy concerns are primed at the outset of the study. This research helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a natural product of the information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
executives assumed that their private email would not be made public. There is another angle to the incident, however. It can be viewed as an extreme example of corporate transparency, however unintended it may have been. Personal transparency can be thought to end... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time, Facebook implemented changes to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
for parent company Limited Brands on both the Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret brands. While privacy concerns about information sent over the Web persist, Velando said Victoria's Secret is very aware that some customers feel... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal information is a valuable asset in... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
employees, too. During the first summer, the embeds quickly discovered the crux of the transparency problem, which Bernstein recalls in his paper The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
to post on the site any government data that does not have national security or privacy concerns. That's a lot of data. Anything that can be put online should be put online." Pros And Cons In class, participants who had read the case... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
also discussed the use of phones' location-tracking technology, as it pertained to advertising. It's been a subject of concern among privacy advocates, but not, apparently, among the majority of panel attendees. "Have you ever gone back... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
and reducing complexity. "We're talking about gathering information about people," Mazer continued, "which raises a whole new host of issues regarding privacy guidelines and accountability." "After 9-11, there was... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Health. Quelch says integrating patient data is crucial to propelling the health care system to become more consumer-centric. Yet with many people concerned about privacy and skeptical about personal data being shared, he believes any... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
on what is measured rather than finding the best ways to be effective. There’s also the issue of regulation. Specific data privacy regulations already in place, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
people are aware of how much these internet companies know about them. The privacy issues are the part of this that warrants the most discussion. Q:Do Pokémon Go's developer Niantic or parent Nintendo have any responsibility here (as the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
of innovations in educational technology in the classroom including adequate teacher training, funding, and technology infrastructure. The note also highlights several challenges, risks, and criticisms common to the edtech sector, such as the evolving role of teachers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne