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- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to be coupled with very low life satisfaction. Thus, people may work hard to maintain or increase their income in part because they overestimate the hedonic costs of earning low levels of income. Capital Market Driven Corporate Finance Author: Malcolm Baker... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
that search engine advertisements tend to be less safe than the corresponding organic listings. Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:IEEE Security and Privacy 8, no. 4 (July-August 2010)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
best job you could have—a way to give back,” she says. “That clerkship opened my eyes to the benefits and virtues of public service.” She would later serve with the U.S. Department of Justice, first as a federal prosecutor and then as an assistant deputy attorney... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
requires users to have a valid phone number, it blocks large amounts of bot army from polluting the GreenZone app with fake reviews, which is rampant on many other review sites. humanID is a B2B2C company and our client base ranges from polling site to social media... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
financially benefit most from home delivery are more likely to choose it. Those who benefit least from insurance subsidies are more likely to make no active choice and lose those subsidies. The implicit default incentivizes people to make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
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The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High | Working Knowledge
solutions without worrying about hurting their careers. In accounting, auditors could propose alternative methods of identifying fraud or inefficiencies instead of following the same approach year after year. Goldman Sachs uses sandbox... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of the more serious abuses" in the View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
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Quarter Credits Leemore S. Dafny U.S. Healthcare Strategy General Management, Strategy Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Rohit Deshpande Field Course: Business of the Arts General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Aiyesha Dey The Anatomy of View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
committing the outrage of pleading total ignorance of massive financial fraud in his organization. (Can you imagine a doctor charged with malpractice doing this?) Clearly, the debate is just being shaped.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
informed trading decisions about various firms. (Nonetheless, he was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in May 2011.) Soltes also hopes that the study will shed light on the fact that executives at publicly traded companies... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
those often sharing their ignorance on blog sites) that is revealing many aspects of the current economic bust—including fraud and questionable management decisions—is dying as well. Along with this there is a gnawing sense that... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition, certain firms, specifically those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
alleging that the company had misstatements in its financial reports. Mayhem’s report involved IGT’s practice of refurbishing used parts in one of its reporting segments and then transferring those parts to another reporting segment.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman