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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
IDs, timestamps the occurrence, and logs the length of the encounter. Because it employs Bluetooth rather than GPS, the app doesn’t track users’ location. This helped address some, though not all, privacy concerns. In the event an app...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
realized that privacy was going to be a very important issue online. We wrote the first privacy policies online; worked with Clinton and Gore and their administration [and] the EU and Pacific Rim countries...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Sparking Internet Commerce
and renamed Firefly Network, Inc., in August 1996. "Privacy, security, and consumer trust are essential to our business and to the development of all Internet commerce," notes Grouf. "We were the first company to have an annual privacy...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards his View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
privacy to employee and customer safety, as well as crisis management, compliance, and internal audits.” “We all make risk-based decisions every day. The same is true in my business at a higher, broader level. A few months ago, we...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a unique market environment. Until...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
variety of data-related topics, from data privacy to digital health to the use of big data for social good (see sidebar below). Five of the six courses (Business Analytics being the exception) were created by the office of the Vice...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
Rayport and Hagel predict that customers will put aside concerns over privacy if they receive sufficient value in return for providing personal information. For example, the authors note that airlines have no trouble collecting...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
Suzy Wetlaufer (MBA 1988) describes working at the city desk of the Miami Herald, where she was a reporter for two years, as “tremendously fun and exciting.” However, she adds, “I just never got comfortable invading people’s privacy —...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
concerns regarding the medical sector of the industry. Privacy is an issue for those who worry that complete knowledge of an individual's genetic makeup could have negative effects. If employers know an individual has a predisposition for...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Global Internet Practice. He previously served as founder and CEO of an interactive brand marketing consultancy, where he developed patented applications to help corporations build relationships between their brands and their customers in the online marketspace. The...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
MBA. The magazine asked the schools to provide contact information for the Class of 1992. Five business schools — Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, the Marshall School at the University of Southern California, and HBS — declined. “At HBS, we have a long-standing policy to...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
mutual respect, and trust." Without naming the individuals involved, in keeping with federal law protecting student privacy, the FSSC described incidents ranging from writing and passing notes with explicit sexual content in class to unwelcome physical contact and...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
meeting with critics. One CEO of the new, humbler variety published a dialogue with a customer who questioned high prices in the company newsletter, replete with pointed attacks, some of which he admitted he couldn’t answer well. Status doesn’t confer View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
difficult: Google is the clear leader, at least in the English-speaking world, and being second just isn’t that interesting. This is not to say there couldn’t still be a decent business. DuckDuckGo is a search engine that emphasizes View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
that this anarchy will remain," said Spar. That is, until the revolution moves to the next phase, when rules are demanded. The demands may stem from social concerns, as is now the case with privacy issues on the Internet, or, more...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
applications that we thought would be so good for society—making things work quicker and faster and cheaper and better for issues like homelessness, the environment, and health—because we need to settle questions around privacy and access...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
softened their official position and once again offered to cooperate with the rankings. Both assigned someone to forward online surveys to recent graduates and alumni, and to coordinate data collection from various departments and funnel it back to the publications....
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving, which will both complement and...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
tech, yeah. No, that's already happening. In Asia, where privacy isn't an issue, we're already seeing that. And they're already past some of the early COVID challenges. Your point of temperature checks, absolutely. Every venue is...
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