Prevention - Publications - Faculty & Research

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

We introduce a new family of fairness definitions that interpolate between statistical and individual notions of fairness, obtaining some of the best properties of each. We show that checking whether these notions are satisfied is computationally hard in the worst... View Details

26 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

24 Feb 2022
News

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

May 25, 2024
Article

How to Prevent Silos from Becoming an Enemy of Collaboration

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure

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02 Jun 2013
News

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

14 Mar 2023
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Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?

June 2020
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Early Disease Intervention

By: H. Hugo Caicedo, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Julio C. Caicedo, Alex Pentland and Gary P. Pisano

It is widely acknowledged that earlier intervention in many disease processes leads to better patient outcomes and lower treatment costs. To date, most efforts at early disease intervention have focused on "primary prevention" which focuses on preventing diseases in... View Details

Keywords: Secondary Prevention; Barriers To Response; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment

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January 2021
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Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (A) and (B)

By: Francesca Gino, Katherine DeCelles and Olivia Hull

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25 Oct 2023
News

Airbnb Turns to AI to Help Prevent House Parties

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

cheat based on our lab and field studies; we thought it was now time to examine how to prevent people from cheating." The key, according to the researchers, lies in increasing ethical salience: inducing people to pay greater attention to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

February 24, 2022
Article

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer

During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the ongoing need for hospital-based... View Details

Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Hospital Capacity; SEC Regulation; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Capacity; Planning

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Moment-to-moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing

By: Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters

We develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods

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16 Mar 2020
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Social distancing prevents infections, but it can have unintended consequences

03 Jun 2018
Podcast

Ep 2: What smart employers are doing to prevent degree inflation

HBS professor Joe Fuller’s latest research Dismissed by Degrees shows that when companies start asking for a four-year college degree for jobs that previously did not require one, they not only reduce opportunities for workers but also restrict their ability to attract... View Details