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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Case Study: Building the Base

thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD), the survey compiled anonymous input from 1,067 directors in some 58 countries. The researchers were surprised at the extent of similarity in the majority of responses related to economics and politics, not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-039.pdf Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

and wrote down as many innovative ideas as they could think of, with the average person coming up with 4.5 new ideas. These ideas were then anonymously scored by other participants and Indian consumers on a variety of measures, including... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

information within the code of conduct efficiently and quickly. The code has served another, perhaps even more important purpose by allowing firm leaders to anonymously capture data across its workforce in order to better identify where... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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
  • 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
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an assembly line and take its place in history. Basking under the hot lights of a showroom, or parked View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

  Working PapersAn Optimal Lower Bound for Anonymous Scheduling Mechanisms Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Shahar Dobzinski, and Ron Lavi Abstract We consider the problem of designing truthful mechanisms to minimize the makespan on m unrelated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

results were consistent for both Democrats and Republicans, or even if they just presented an anonymous “Party A” and “Party B.” “They are totally insensitive to the scope or impact of the issue,” Cikara says. “They just think the other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

though not impossible, since the data does include anonymous personal identifiers that are built off of social security numbers. The Holy Grail would be to cross-reference the database with information about immigration visa status in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

with the utmost respect. Kanter believes a formal complaint process might not be effective if the victim feels vulnerable and exposed. She might question if it’s even worth reporting, doubting that the complaint will be investigated completely. Allowing employees to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

seeking regular feedback through anonymous surveys or other safe forums. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (also sold as Edy's) is a fantastic example of the last two strategies. In the late 1980s, several employees accused Dreyer's leaders of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

2001.12 © 2021 Whitfield Lovell. Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, New York The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and internationally renowned for his mixed-media installations that feature conté crayon and charcoal portraits of anonymous... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

to technological race Sometimes content is unreliable (spoof files) Decentralized—makes it hard No anonymity Itunes Strengths Weaknesses Legal Customers must pay for content (relatively expensive at $0.99) Easy to use Restrictions on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 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