Information Hiding - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

more experience with credit cards and thus could use the trade-off information productively. With more data to inform their decisions, these customers went on to spend 19 percent more each month and defect... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

with staff and more meeting-based communication may be necessary now, particularly in the early days of adjusting to the remote work world. Research shows that informal conversation benefits remote employees, so she advises managers to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

organizations that don't already have them. But let's assume that such plans only deter the amateurs and criminals for fleeting periods of time and that in fact it becomes impossible to hide or otherwise keep View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility initiatives to differentiate themselves in the consumer market. Complex DisclosureCompanies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

scientists to create a tool that does just that. The plugin modifies Chrome to hide the name and face of guests requesting to stay with Airbnb hosts. “Debias Yourself” is a downloadable browser plugin that lets an Airbnb host view a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

a peer at the senior management and board level. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. He or she should not think ill of technology-averse cultures and must be a skilled communicator who does not hide behind... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

compensation discount is driven by a lack of information in the marketplace. Since hiring companies have little to go on outside a CV, they may not want to take the risk of hiring someone associated with a tarnished firm. “They may say,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

has to be a mistake to carry over uncritically to the management of information those concepts that have proven so useful during the centuries when things were the dominant resources.... These concepts include the notion of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Cuddy, operating a relatively large device inspires more assertive behavior than working on a small one. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

consideration to how they deliver important information during earnings calls. Between The Lines The research team studied 11,436 conference call transcripts by 4,540 firms based in 41 different countries outside the United States between... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

Argentine branch of BankBoston Corporation. At the same time, Sacerdote said, many companies want to hide certain information from the authorities. These barriers make it all the more important, he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

hard to hide a dead body.") And neither gender-neutral crimes (such as robberies or arson), nor crimes in which the victims were identified as male, showed any notable increase. So the observed increase was likely caused by a greater... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

share useful information in informal settings. One of the ways people who are in the numerical minority (I call them O’s) get accepted into groups of otherwise all X’s is to be seen as “having a good sense... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

ask follow-up questions tend to land better jobs than people who don’t. (That goes for landing second dates, too.) ”Compared to those who do not ask many questions, people who do are better liked and learn more information from their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

This scenario, inspired by a Harvard Business School case, may ring familiar. It raises an increasingly prevalent, and difficult, management issue: how much information to share and when to share it. You look up to find the concerned face... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

participants get from price discrimination—even for those firms that currently get the biggest discounts. [ ] Simplified Billing. A fundamental function of pricing is to convey information to consumers and competitors. Current billing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

sniping worth the risk of not getting your bid in? There are lots of reasons it might be. The easiest case to think about is of a bidder who has some expert information about the item being sold, information... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

choice options, but not more confident about the choice after "sleeping on" a subjective decision. We discuss how the valence of recalled choice set information may be important in understanding the effects of sleep on... View Details

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