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- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Is Boston Title Town Or Cheater Town?
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
(Washington Post, December 13, 2011) “He told me that there weren’t as many tanks as the mortgages showed. That sure was the understatement of the year.” —Oscar Griffin (OPM 6, 1982), from his obituary. As a reporter for the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, Griffin... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
who started StopLift in 2003 after studying the matter as a student at Harvard Business School. Now with a staff of 200, the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based software company is deploying its ScanItAll Checkout Vision Systems to foil a wide array of View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
polling stations. For example, the biometric identification systems designed to prevent voter fraud were not working at all polling stations, and systems designed to publicly report real-time results crashed on Election Day. For Pons, the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
A successful high-tech businessman, author, and consultant with a PhD in political science from MIT, Ferguson believes, as does Angelides, that outright fraud was integral to the crisis on Wall Street and that criminal trials are in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
omniscience. And you’re reading it thinking, ‘Wow, I’m in the minds of the mobsters.’ ” Personal Pick Chainsaw The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price by John A. Byrne “It’s about the rise and fall of this corporate restructuring artist. And... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
with the MBA, I’ll be better equipped to identify promising new ideas in the field and help bring them to fruition in clinical practice.” What has your experience as a first-year resident been like? “For the first few weeks of residency, I felt like a View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
into small businesses, where fraud is a particular problem, she says, because, compared to larger firms, “there aren’t as many controls.” She often found it helpful to go undercover as, say, a new accounting clerk, a bookkeeper, an office... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Reducing Risk with Online Advertising View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
best job you could have—a way to give back,” she says. “That clerkship opened my eyes to the benefits and virtues of public service.” She would later serve with the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a federal prosecutor and then as an assistant deputy attorney... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
registration/identity card system. DiCamillo notes with pride that last June's elections there were perhaps the "cleanest" in Mexican history, due to the minimization of fraud and vote tampering afforded by the highly secure Polaroid... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top execs at the firm were charged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne