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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
provided by us willingly.” George Yurieff put it this way: “If you are concerned about your privacy and want to somehow protect yourself to some extent, start paying for services which you want to use stop posting (send directly to your... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a major issue until the late 1980s... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
learning to gain new knowledge about current and potential market segments. “It might be that people on the bus use their cell phones more,” Amano posits, “so they just tend to buy cell phones more often.” Personalization vs. privacy... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
giving it more independent leadership, (2) provide more “community training” on the use of user data, (3) “invest in reducing fake articles,” (4) publish a quarterly “report to Congress” regarding “detailed privacy issues/actions”, and... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
rumors, 'whistle blowing' and reactions counter to the benefit to an organization " Malabika Debnath opined that "I believe we are gradually as a society moving towards a higher level of comfort with openness as we trade off various levels of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
one—including how things like data sourcing, volume, diversity, privacy and security will be handled. Data can be acquired in a number of ways including crawling public data, finding data-rich partners, gathering it from customers, or... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit. “My intended audience includes managers at companies as well as policymakers and regulators—seeking to inform and, to be sure, persuade these folks.” In the course of his research, Edelman has exposed numerous... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 816-059 KKR, Ringier Digital, and the Acquisition of Scout24 Switzerland No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-069 Apple: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time, Facebook implemented changes to... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
employees, too. During the first summer, the embeds quickly discovered the crux of the transparency problem, which Bernstein recalls in his paper The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a natural product of the information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
advising that rewarding hackers was probably an economic alternative, “... all Apple has to do is be better than the next best alternative at a price that’s economically justified in the buyer’s ... mind.” Dolembo commented that “... Steve Jobs, I surmise, wasn’t as... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
bumpy and filled with controversy related to privacy. Over its first decade, Facebook has been no stranger to controversy, specifically about privacy controls, and it is to the company's credit that its growth has continued despite such... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20buell%20reich%20norton_3e675fb6-f83c-47fc-912d-e0c0b383e56d.pdf Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
executives assumed that their private email would not be made public. There is another angle to the incident, however. It can be viewed as an extreme example of corporate transparency, however unintended it may have been. Personal transparency can be thought to end... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal information is a valuable asset in... View Details