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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Case 817-034 ShotSpotter SST, Inc. offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States in addition to a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
common theme and we were able to detect some patterns. There basically is an infinite combination of five core strategies being used across a spectrum of impact to make positive change. The strategies include finance for social purpose,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
question. One of the positive results that come from our inability to detect the shifting of a conversation is that we can move seamlessly from one topic to another semantically similar topic. In my experience, some of the most... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
First-of-its-kind infrared proximity sensors detect the motion of a finger as it hovers over the screen; the same technology has been installed in the elevators. Passengers also have the option of registering their iris and facial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
surgery to ensure that the electrode is placed in the exact area being affected. So on the day Frisch was in surgery, he played a special violin that Bennet’s engineering team had created, with a bow that could detect his tremors. In what... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
by high levels of ambition and values or leadership behaviors at companies." Johnny added, "Neuromanagement will be based on electronic testing however it will not detect 'will-power.' It is our will that determines how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
sample of 82 ads for 30 brands in their homes or workplaces. The research relied on webcams that track visible changes on a person's face as they watch an ad, responding to funny, or amusing content. The software detects the slightest... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
research to help address. EPA senior attorney-advisor Jon Silberman says he attended with potential research questions related to the agency’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, which aims to take advantage of new tools and approaches, such as advanced emissions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
create software that could assist doctors in making diagnoses. By July 2018, Zebra had developed seven algorithms to analyze scans for emphysema, liver density, compression fractures, bone density, brain bleeds, breast cancer, and a calcium score used to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
unobtrusively measured their eye movements. The researchers parsed the camera data with the help of computer vision software that evaluated emotional response based on variations in facial features. Click to watch. Meanwhile, the eye tracker View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
empirical researchers have struggled to detect such influence. The impact of high-level choices may appear weak, we theorize, because the choices are embedded in coupled search processes. A coupled search process exists in an organization... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Screening: Who can come in? Many organizations are conducting body temperature tests before allowing workers, vendors, or customers into a space. Some go even further, preparing for biometric screening via rapid testing for active infection to View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
if predictions have to be made, he wants them made by people with "skin in the game." In the future, will predictions improve as we develop new methods to sort out the noise from the signal? Or will the growth of Big Data outpace the development of methods to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
tension now detectable at the very heart of Chimerica. For some time, concern has been mounting in the U.S. Congress about what is seen as unfair competition and currency manipulation by China, and the worse the recession gets in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
changes HBS ultimately adopts, one thing is certain. The School will remain steadfast in its commitment to the case method. Reflecting on the discussions that took place during the faculty colloquium, Garvin says he detected “no sense at... View Details