Privacy By Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

incredibly complex. When a phone is designed in America and assembled in China with supplies from 30 other countries, where is it from? By trying to manage trade flows in any specific product through tariffs... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

system by repeatedly downloading their own papers, so that others would see the high download count and assume that these particular papers were very popular. SSRN maintains detailed historical records of every paper download and is able... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

Marketing & Sales Programs

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Two dramatically different approaches to organizational change are being employed in the world today, according to our observations, research, and experience. We call these Theory E and Theory O of change. Like all managerial action, these approaches are guided View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

insights to be leveraged. These discussions are then translated into action points. Organizations should ensure internal decision-making processes incorporate conflicting points of view, if necessary designating a devil’s advocate or what... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

Instead, they practice the art of reflection “in the cracks and crevices of their everyday lives” to help them make better decisions day by day and problem by problem. Badaracco recommends four View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

to police its trademark by preventing others from using it to refer to something other than the Real Thing. Shareholder value is enhanced when a firm chooses an appropriate form of business organization, ranging from a limited liability... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

Lab at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard; his research develops tools for machine learning that mitigate bias and enhance privacy. Generative AI poses a greater risk to privacy View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

concerned or burdened by history. Many live for today or for the next new thing. Early adopters and lead users of new products are listened to and applauded. Their opinions are sought on the Internet. They can accelerate adoption of a new... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

that premise to a new level, opening a four-story, 22,000-square-foot boutique on Fifth Avenue designed by architect Peter Marino that features details such as flashing LED screens and a staircase made of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

15 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

Keywords: by Takao Kato & Pian Shu

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

in a mutual caring way and also to help their firm excel. The designer can encourage this by fostering firm-wide symbols, rituals, and norms. However, any such social contract must be a mutual commitment to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

may have not ” Joined in class by the Chief Information Office (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra, who oversees Data.gov, Lakhani led the case discussion for 50 technology executives in a weeklong HBS executive education course,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

printed out the pages containing the results he didn’t like, highlighted the offending ads, posted them on a bulletin board on the wall of the kitchen by the pool table, and wrote THESE ADS SUCK in big letters across the top. Then he went... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

In most companies, no one knows and understands your customers and their changing needs better than the marketing department. Certainly that knowledge should be routinely presented and understood by the chief executive and board of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor... View Details