Data Protection - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

percent of Fortune 100 firms, from 2000 to 2017. The database contains the location of each violation, allowing Heese and his colleagues to overlay that data both in areas where local newspapers were operating and in other areas where... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

22 Jul 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India

resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020. In a new case, Professor Tarun Khanna and HBS India Research Center Executive Director Anjali Raina discuss the complexities of this massive data management project. HBS Cases: Branding Yoga As... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

on that need. For line-holders, a higher bribe meant the jumper was more desperate. But there were limits to that generosity. When Oberholzer-Gee tried to cut into the same line a second time, the crowd grew hostile and he felt forced to retreat to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

Protection Bureau with requiring banks to collect and maintain certain data in connection with credit applications made by women- or minority-owned businesses and small businesses.) However, the information... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

considerations in choosing gig work, despite the lack of benefits and legal protections that other employees enjoy. Armed with data on 426,385 meal-delivery drivers working for DoorDash in California,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

bit of attention; 96 people submitted 410 programs, and 20 of the contestants had ideas that exceeded researchers’ expectations. The best solution increased the accuracy of the data from 91 percent to 97 percent and increased processing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

or she will pay. The study, Consumer Protection In An Online World: An Analysis Of Occupational Licensing, is the first to look together at what consumers care about and the effects on demand and metrics of customer satisfaction. It is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

customers be able to see what pieces of data may have led to a loan rejection or a lower credit limit? Should regulators have access to the algorithms and test them for the impact they have on underserved or View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

with the control group answers generally falling in the middle. From a logical Internet privacy viewpoint, the results don't make sense. After all, an amateur website of unknown origins is likely far less concerned with data View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

those profiles. (The data were anonymized, scrambled, and password-protected to protect user privacy.) Piskorski studied a random sample of 500,000 OKCupid members, focusing on two important stages of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Bennett, Victor Manuel, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms... View Details