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- 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
- 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
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
by advertising revenue. On the other hand, he detected clear bias in the types of companies that the press targets for special scrutiny. For this reason, business people are wise not to underestimate the ability of the press—particularly... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
provided by an international development agency. Rainforest Expeditions (RFE) was a small Peruvian ecotourism company that detected the opportunity to open an eco-lodge in the Tambopata-Candamo Reservation area, in the Peruvian Amazonia.... 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
taught that you’ve got to be better. You’ve got to work twice as hard and be twice as good to get half as far." ShotSpotter has developed technology to help law enforcement detect and locate gunfire, and Clark believes that the officers... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
of racial inclusion on boards of directors among large public corporations, and we draw upon in-depth interviews with key participants to gain insights into the mechanisms that are likely to have generated the patterns we detect in our... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
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 all that the case method is in need of repair." The program... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
occur relatively quickly when the underlying repugnance changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-077.pdf An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation Authors:Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman Abstract The purpose of this paper is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this... View Details
- 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
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Bavel Abstract—Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
to try to keep the bad guys out completely,” says BrightPoint’s Bonaparte. “No one runs a perfect shop. Detection and response are equally important to prevention.” There are too many ways in, too many holes to cover. There’s no absolute... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
should deploy the radio to communicate with rural dwellers, since it has 99 percent reach in India,” he advised in a letter to the editor of theFinancial Times on Sept. 10. In a Sept. 3 letter in The National, he advised “governments should focus on mass testing, so... 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