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- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
However, higher wages could also be unrelated to theft if honesty only depended on the workers' moral values, if workers were unaware of wages paid by the competition, or if they overlooked wage deviations by reassessing the value of their own inputs. For the study,...
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- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
simple case. However, when it gets down to how white-collar crimes are prosecuted, it’s quite challenging. We don’t prosecute people based on our intuitive notions of is this fraud or not fraud? Or is this lying or not lying? Instead, we look at the specific pieces of...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the site and suspended such View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice about View Details
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change that removed penalties for wrong answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
such as, "What is unique about you that leads to your happiest times and best performance at work?" Finally, the agents shared their strengths with their future officemates. At the end of the session, employees in the individual identity...
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- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
with open source communities to ensure the security and longevity of the components they depend on. Snyk co-founder Danny Grander, a veteran security researcher who heads the company’s security team, decided to lead by example and share...
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- January 2021
- Case
Anodot: Autonomous Business Monitoring
By: Antonio Moreno and Danielle Golan
Autonomous business monitoring platform Anodot leveraged machine learning to provide real-time alerts regarding business anomalies. Anodot’s solution was used in various industries in order to primarily monitor business health, such as revenue and payments, product...
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Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Knowledge Sharing;
Information Management;
Sales;
Value Creation;
Product Positioning;
Israel
Moreno, Antonio, and Danielle Golan. "Anodot: Autonomous Business Monitoring." Harvard Business School Case 621-084, January 2021.
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
University, sent an email invitation to all faculty, staff, and students at the university (more than 40,000 individuals) encouraging them to participate in an ideas challenge that Harvard Medical School had launched to generate research topics in Type 1 diabetes....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
rates persist through the three weeks of available data following the initial intervention. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/ALERT.pdf Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks By: Lee, Jooa...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
specific data and econometric approach used (Rodriguez/Rodrik, 2000; Median-Smith, 2001). There are also questions as to whether the relationship between specific trade policy instruments such as tariffs and growth has not been stable...
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by Christian Ketels
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
transparency through data sharing in order to better track the chain of subcontractors. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
business problem you are solving is at least as important as your algorithms. Even though the technology and data science behind AI is what makes these applications different from conventional software, your business customers are not...
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by Rocio Wu
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city,...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
violation. We decided to assess whether and how things have changed over time from 1996 to 2017 and let the data give us the answer. Lagace: What do the data show? Srinivasan: Dismissals are going up,...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
during the pandemic in each of the 51 countries from a variety of sources, including reports in the New York Times and the European Commission’s database, Eurostat. They compared that data to figures from the same months for the past...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm...
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Sean Silverthorne