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- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
become more frequent as well—and technology develops to protect users from unwanted intrusions. A market in access and identity results. Property exchanges. As with Napster, Craigslist, and eBay, people participate in the anonymous... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous investors to fund startups. More than a year after the law was... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
(Dot) Com Karthik Ramanna and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 112-078 Anti-corruption web platform "ipaidabribe.com" leverages the transparency and anonymity of the Internet to encourage private citizens in India... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
stretch them. Honesty. Companies need honest assessments of reality. These can be gained through anonymous surveys. Higher standards. For organizations on neither winning or losing streaks, but that win some/lose some, one secret is to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Tucker notes that these systems have their place, as they provide the opportunity for workers to anonymously report safety violations being made by physicians and other health-care workers. But her research shows that they can also be... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
Policy Officer A. G. Breitenstein. PrivaSource integrates and "scrubs" healthcare data for pharma, biotech, and healthcare companies so that it is meaningful to them scientifically. At the same time individual patients are shielded and their View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
... technology, how do you draw the line between 'work' and 'life'? ... I think we need new definitions for [these terms] ...." Do you agree? And what interpretation should we place on the unusually large proportion of anonymous... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could lead to actual treatments for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Kiatpongsan%20Norton%20PPS_31f17547-5033-401c-8ed2-ccc9b6a2b433.pdf Working Papers Bitcoin By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an online communication protocol that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an important unintended consequence: racial discrimination. In a field experiment on Airbnb, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
poverty and to support microentrepreneurs in their endeavors? That's the bigger picture." Under-savers Anonymous In 2008, Pomeranz's research team began interviews with microentrepreneurs in Chile that led to a 2012 working paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
consequences of corporate indifference, individual end consumers are striking out on their own to blaze new trails in a new approach that we call the individuation of consumption. They want to be treated as individuals, not as anonymous... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
damaging to the academic enterprise. We surveyed over 2,000 psychologists about their involvement in questionable research practices, using an anonymous elicitation format supplemented by incentives for honest reporting. The impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
BSSE." For more than a decade, Huber visited Christensen's class twice a year, sitting anonymously in the back of the room while students tore OnStar apart, and then introducing himself to their chagrin. "I was their... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ranging from subtle suggestion to social ostracism, if not outright retaliation. Absentee and anonymous shareholders are unlikely to experience such influences. Thus, as a practical matter, shareholders cannot be made more accountable... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
address corruption by self-reporting their experiences online. Since corruption flourishes where information is murky, the goal is transparency, leveraging the ubiquity and anonymity of the Internet. People who have endured incidents like... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
purchase and marketing contracts. Noble also worked with customers to secure supply contracts. Noble had a portfolio of 12,000 commodity contracts by the end of 2014. The contracts were measured at fair value. Iceberg Research, an View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman