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- 2016
- Working Paper
Delaying Firearm Purchases Reduces Gun Violence
By: Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a two to seven-day delay between the purchase and delivery of a firearm. While states might institute waiting periods for different reasons (e.g., to allow for background checks), these delays also create a “cooling off”... View Details
- June 2013
- Article
What Is Privacy Worth?
By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
Acquisti, Alessandro, Leslie K. John, and George Loewenstein. "What Is Privacy Worth?" Journal of Legal Studies 42, no. 2 (June 2013): 249–274.
- November 17, 2009
- Article
The Dark Underbelly of Online Advertising
By: Benjamin Edelman
The Internet is sold to advertisers as a highly measurable medium that is the most efficient way to target exactly the right customers. But online advertising is also easily subverted—letting fraudsters claim advertising fees for work they did not actually do. The... View Details
Edelman, Benjamin. "The Dark Underbelly of Online Advertising." HBR Now (November 17, 2009).
- February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
- Supplement
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Bronwyn Halliday and Michael Santoro
Beech-Nut's CEO must decide what to do. Asks students to consider how much evidence of impurity should be enough to trigger management's acknowledgment of a problem. What are the cognitive and attitudinal factors and pressures that lead people to persist in beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Attitudes; Nutrition; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry
Paine, Lynn S., Bronwyn Halliday, and Michael Santoro. "Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-085, February 1992. (Revised September 2003.)
- February 1987 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
SmithKline Consumer Products: The Contac Relaunch
In March 1986, a tamperer contaminated CONTAC Cold Capsules, SmithKline Consumer Product's most popular product. To relaunch CONTAC after withdrawing it from the market, the management team had to present a plan of action to the corporation board. They knew CONTAC's 25... View Details
Kosnik, Thomas J. "SmithKline Consumer Products: The Contac Relaunch." Harvard Business School Case 588-046, February 1987. (Revised January 1989.)
- March 2014
- Supplement
China Vanke (A-3)
By: Lynn S. Paine, John Macomber and Keith Chi-ho Wong
China Vanke's president is considering whether and how the company might make further inroads into the commercial real estate sector, while continuing to lead in the residential sector. He is also considering whether to branch into overseas residential markets such as... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; China; Sustainable Development; Green Building; Asset Management; Urban Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Safety; Assets; Real Estate Industry; China
Paine, Lynn S., John Macomber, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "China Vanke (A-3)." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-106, March 2014.
- March 2008
- Article
What Have We Learned from Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Failure; Safety
Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" Economic Journal 118, no. 527 (March 2008): 285–310. (Hahn Lecture.)
- June 24, 2020
- Article
Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic
By: Boris Groysberg
Chef Wolfgang Puck shares his experience leading his restaurants and other businesses through the pandemic crisis. He explains how his company has pivoted to find new sources of revenue and how he has become a vocal advocate for the restaurant industry. He also... View Details
Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Restaurants; Restaurant Industry; Reopening; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety
Groysberg, Boris. "Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 24, 2020).
- Web
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Drone Policy Purpose Statement HBS community members have requested information on using UAS or drones on campus. The FAA maintains strict regulations on commercial UAS flights; the purpose of this policy is to help clarify acceptable use... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2009
- Chapter
Government as Risk Manager
By: Tom Baker and David Moss
We explain the four basic ways to manage risk: prevention, risk shifting, risk spreading, and loss control. We set out five principles of effective government risk management gleaned from extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral... View Details
Baker, Tom, and David Moss. "Government as Risk Manager." Chap. 4 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 87–109. Cambridge, MA: Tobin Project, 2009.
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
Safety Protocols: What to Expect When Coming to Campus, which explains all of our policies around COVID-19, safety on campus, and what happens if... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
intermediary to divert consumers to its favored destinations. Applied to Internet search engines, we investigate a diversion mechanism based on Google's exclusive award of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants View Details
- 2022
- Book
Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well
By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
Allen, Joseph G., and John D. Macomber. Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well. Revised and updated edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022.
- 2020
- Discussion Paper
Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential
of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the
overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Peter Clinch. "Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19." Discussion Paper, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Boston, MA, US, 2020.
- November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Global Conservation Trust, The: A Foundation for Food Security
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Biodiversity is being lost due to the delegation of the ability to store and maintain various types of plants to governments and foundations with no or little financial base. How does one develop the resources to maintain plant diversity for the future benefit of... View Details
Keywords: Food; Safety; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Finance; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Global Conservation Trust, The: A Foundation for Food Security." Harvard Business School Case 903-418, November 2002. (Revised March 2006.)
- April 2020
- Article
Regulatory Oversight, Causal Inference, and Safe and Effective Health Care Machine Learning
By: Ariel Dora Stern and W. Nicholson Price, II
In recent years, the applications of Machine Learning (ML) in the health care delivery setting have grown to become both abundant and compelling. Regulators have taken notice of these developments and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been engaging... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Causal Inference; Health Care and Treatment; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Stern, Ariel Dora, and W. Nicholson Price, II. "Regulatory Oversight, Causal Inference, and Safe and Effective Health Care Machine Learning." Biostatistics 21, no. 2 (April 2020): 363–367.
- March 1980 (Revised July 1985)
- Case
Parker Brothers (A)
Focuses on the decision required of Parker Brothers regarding the necessity and advisability of recalling a new product that may have been related to the death of two children. View Details
Cady, John F. "Parker Brothers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 580-085, March 1980. (Revised July 1985.)
- August 2017
- Case
Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Huckman and Nikolaos Trichakis
The case explores the challenges facing Massachusetts General Hospital concerning the adoption of a new infection control policy, which promises to improve operational performance, patient safety, and profitability. The new policy requires coordination between... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Health Industry; Boston
Huckman, Robert S., and Nikolaos Trichakis. "Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 618-018, August 2017.