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  • 2023
  • Article

Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Satyapriya Krishna and Jiaqi Ma
The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an actionable explanation for an... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Public Entrepreneurship

By: Mitchell B. Weiss

Public entrepreneurship is designed for future private entrepreneurs and public leaders who want to build new ventures operating in or selling into traditionally public domains.

The last few years have seen a wave of new public entrepreneurs start companies... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship
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The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms' and Their Analysts' Research Activities

By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
In traditional markets, the price mechanism directs the flow of resources and governs the process through which supply and demand are brought into equilibrium. In the investment-research industry, broker votes perform these functions. Using detailed clinical data from... View Details
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  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Recently, she went to Washington to present the paper to her former colleagues. “It turns out the working paper has been quite useful to regulators,” says Mills, who is working to convene policymakers and academics on a more regular basis to discuss how View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Oct 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator

Keywords: by Jodi L. Short & Michael W. Toffel

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
    • 29 Jun 2015
    • HBS Case

    Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

    Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology
    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Military Ties, New Ventures, and Political Risk Management in Emerging Economies

    By: Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine
    New ventures in emerging economies face a number of challenges such as political instability, corruption, and uncertain property rights that can severely hinder their ability to grow and survive, yet little is known about how startups can mitigate such risk. Using data... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Latin America
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    • December 2023
    • Case

    TikTok: The Algorithm Will See You Now

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    In a world where attention is a scarce commodity, this case explores the meteoric rise of TikTok—an app that transformed from a niche platform for teens into the most visited domain by 2021—surpassing even Google. Its algorithm was a sophisticated mechanism for... View Details
    Keywords: Social Media; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Cybersecurity; Culture; Technology Industry; China; United States; India
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    Reforming Social Science

    By: Max H. Bazerman

    Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

    • 20 Aug 2018
    • Blog Post

    Summer Snapshot: Interning for the City of Philadelphia

    in city government in my hometown of Philadelphia. After decades of economic decline there are signs of a resurgence. My work this summer has been to help create a government strategy that supports and... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

    By: Arlen Guarin, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia and Jorge Tamayo
    Identifying the effect of physicians’ skills on health outcomes is a challenging task due to the nonrandom sorting between physicians and hospitals. We overcome this challenge by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned 2,126 physicians to 618... View Details
    Keywords: Physicians' Health Skills; Health Birth Outcomes; Birthing Outcomes; Experimental Evidence; Health Care and Treatment; Competency and Skills; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Colombia
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    • 04 Mar 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

    vital for the structure of e-commerce and that’s the broader issue" Q: Is there a distinction to be made here between Apple protecting its own commercial interests and protecting customer security more broadly? A: Apple is making two distinctions. The first is if... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology
    • May 2017
    • Article

    Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary-Drink Portion Limits

    By: Leslie John, Grant Donnelly and Christina Roberto
    In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. Although a state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable... View Details
    Keywords: Nutrition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 02 Sep 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

    Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United States Census Bureau's... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • January 2004
    • Case

    Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

    By: David A. Moss
    Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

    By: Diego A. Comin, Mikhail Dmitriev and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
    We empirically study technology diffusion across countries and over time. We find significant evidence that technology diffuses slower to locations that are farther away from adoption leaders. This effect is stronger across rich countries and also when measuring... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Knowledge Dissemination; Technology Adoption
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    • 28 Apr 2020
    • News

    Coronavirus apps: the risk of slipping into a surveillance state

    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003

    By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
    There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Ownership Stake; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Brazil
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    • August, 2022
    • Article

    Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States

    By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
    How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
    Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Ingroup-outgroup Relations; Immigration; Race; Relationships; United States
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