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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

very short period of time, and it’s done so largely without any legal or regulatory guardrails. Join us for a case discussion exploring two major challenges facing the company and society: privacy and trust breaches, and a growing sense... View Details

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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

erroneously remove videos of breastfeeding mothers. Data has tremendous potential to catalyze both good and bad; however, often industry leaders in data analytics are ill-equipped to grapple with nebulous ideas of privacy and determine... View Details

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Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study

By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous

BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework

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Information Technology | About

may result from the use of HBS Resources to violate copyright laws. You may be held responsible for misuse that occurs by allowing a third party access to your own computer, account, or network connection. Key Policies & Guidelines Authorized Use View Details

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Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Business School Alumni Executive Education More HBS Facebook: Alumni Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School HBS... View Details

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

health system, the team observed “remarkably similar results, despite some dramatic differences in the type of health system and the patients they care for,” Stern says. Could other factors be at play? Due to privacy regulations, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office (vs. online)? Would the five... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again. Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Uladzimir Zuyeu View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

sexual relationships with employees. On January 18, Meta under Mark Zuckerberg was fined $414 million for violating European Union privacy laws. These leaders seemed to believe they could con the public with their ideas, mistruths, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

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

solution was to track audiences, use information about their browsing choices, and infer their interests. But tracking was challenged by privacy policies, as Google proposed restriction on the use of cookies, and Apple limited tracking by... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

years." Companies are forecast to spend $98 billion on AI worldwide in 2023 compared to $38 billion in 2019. While the money may be flowing, few companies have figured out the best way to harness AI while navigating new challenges this technology brings, including... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

amounts of data, which in turn fuels AI, which can in turn make the digital products smarter. The challenges include internal education around data, systems modernization, and privacy concerns, while the opportunity is the creation of a... View Details

07 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Living Off Campus at HBS

being walking distance to restaurants, convenience stores, and public transportation. I also decided to live with my partner while at HBS and he works downtown. This decision allowed us both to have reasonable commutes and enjoy the View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. Silk: Issues of privacy will come under... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to medications, the vet recommended... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of... View Details

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of... View Details

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Capturing & Disseminating Video/Photography During Course Activities | About

participants in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Capturing Classroom Activities Students, participants, staff, faculty, and class visitors are not permitted to capture content, images, or... View Details

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