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Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

By: Shoshana Zuboff
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

information not addressed to anyone specific. As the saying goes, ‘The only thing free is the cheese in the mouse trap.’” Government was cited as both an antidote to surveillance capitalism and a threat... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
  • 2019
  • Book

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Profiling; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction; Information Technology; Power and Influence; Ethics; Society; Transformation
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  • 17 Mar 2021
  • News

Shoshana Zuboff on why Big Tech is the biggest threat to democracy

  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/AmbigMainTextFinal_8a88b410-0618-40ea-969a-c29f3e509d9d.pdf May 2015 Journal of Information Technology Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

November–December 2015 Operations Research Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events By: Goh, Joel, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Postmarketing drug View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

Samuel L. Hayes, III (MBA '61, DBA '66), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Emeritus, is a widely recognized authority on capital markets, Wall Street, and the corporate interface with the securities markets. He takes a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Security Chief

luggage and screen passengers for traces of explosives and narcotics. Public transit systems deploy the company’s surveillance cameras. Homes and offices rely on GE’s security and fire alarm equipment. Exporters install the company’s tiny... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/when-should-a-platform-give-people-fewer-choices-and-charge-more-for-them.htm Institutionalizing Self-Regulation: The Effect of Commitment, Threat and Surveillance Authors:Jodi L. Short and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective default, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Union.” The second book, one I am well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description the rise and impact of business models that are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

particular subset of firms and insiders, and their surveillance is very persistent over time. This tracking behavior has powerful implications for their portfolio choice and its information content. An institution that downloaded an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer By: Ehdaie, Behfar, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra, and Andrew Vickers Abstract—A systematic approach to counseling—using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

technology enablement for emergency preparedness and response have taken on increased significance. Public health organizations like ADHS play a critical role in any statewide preparation for large scale emergencies. With issues like bio-terrorism View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace