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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government
  • Article

Measuring the Scientific Effectiveness of Contact Tracing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Thiemo Fetzer and Thomas Graeber
Contact tracing has for decades been a cornerstone of the public health approach to epidemics, including Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and now COVID-19. It has not yet been possible, however, to causally assess the method’s effectiveness using a randomized... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Public Health; Infectious Diseases; Health Pandemics
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  • 18 Aug 2020
  • News

Testing New Contact Tracing Approaches in a Pandemic

  • June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

TraceTogether

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
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  • July 15, 2020
  • Article

How to Get People to Actually Use Contact-Tracing Apps

By: Chiara Farronato, Marco Iansiti, Marcin Bartosiak, Stefano Denicolai, Luca Ferretti and Roberto Fontana
The broad adoption of contact-tracing apps would greatly help combat the spread of COVID-19. But a number of barriers—especially privacy concerns—have hindered progress in many countries that can’t or won’t mandate adoption. A solution is to start with small... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Apps; Privacy; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Technology Adoption; Applications and Software
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  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

Is a Pandemic the Best Time To Try Out a New Idea?

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Health
  • January 2023
  • Supplement

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Christian Godwin
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, Apple and Google partnered to develop a contact tracing application that would collect information about users infected with the disease and notify those who they had been in contact with. While Apple/Google’s... View Details
Keywords: Iphone; Encryption; Data Privacy; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Government and Politics; Health; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Markets; Safety; Social Issues; Information Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; United States; Europe
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    TraceTogether

    By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore's... View Details
    • 13 Feb 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Apple’s Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Safety Responsibilities

    Keywords: Re: Nien-he Hsieh & Henry W. McGee
    • 25 Apr 2022
    • News

    Unicorns and Explosives: A Burning Ship Off Victoria’s Coast Hints at the Dangerous Secrets of Cargo Carriers

    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    First Bank of the United States Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Struggle over Cherokee Removal (1836) This case describes how the United States (and its colonial precursors) set policies with respect to Native Americans, from first View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

    For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records,... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 26 May 2022
    • HBS Case

    Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

    governments wanted more control than Apple allowed, including location-tracking data that was protected as part of Apple’s encryption. Apple again refused. In France, where the government had petitioned Apple to exempt contact View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 11 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    In this excerpt taken from the chapter entitled "From Trade to Investment," HBS visiting professor Geoffrey Jones traces the transition of the British trading companies from purely trading companies in the 1870s to... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

    leaders have the knowledge and insight needed to tackle critical issues facing business and society—including those pertaining to our health and well-being. Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers A New Approach to Contact View Details
    • 27 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

    Countries need to develop or acquire test kits and deploy testing sites. As mentioned earlier, testing is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible enemy. Equally important is to trace and proactively test people... View Details
    Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

    HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
    • Web

    Introduction - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

    Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice Building the Foundation Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937 - 1970 088, 113, 173, 120, 112, 115, 180, 146, 169, 171... View Details
    • Web

    Student Handbook | MBA

    instruction; suspending or limiting access to University-provided residential housing; limiting its provision of or access to certain activities and services, introducing or modifying vaccination, mask, and physical distancing mandates; and implementing compulsory... View Details
    • Web

    Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

    use keywords such as "trade catalogs" and the business, product, or industry of interest, and narrow your search to the holdings at Baker Library. Baker Old Class Collection The Baker Old Class Collection is a valuable resource for View Details