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Google's AI Assistant Is a Reminder that Privacy and Security Are Not the Same
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThere are often tradeoffs between the two. -
Protecting Customers' Privacy Requires More than Anonymizing Their Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStatistical techniques can help marketers while keeping consumer data safe. -
Do You Care About Privacy as Much as Your Customers Do?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIf you don't protect your users' data, they'll find a company who will. -
Collect Your Employees' Data Without Invading Their Privacy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven things to consider before you start. -
Data Privacy Rules Are Changing. How Can Marketers Keep Up?
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleAnalytics and automation technologies make it easier than you might expect. -
Understanding Your NDA (and When It Can Be Broken)
Business law and ethics Digital ArticleNon-disclosure agreements that restrict your ability to report misconduct to the government are illegal in the U.S. -
Preparing for a Pandemic
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags... -
What Was Privacy?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhy is that question in the past tense? Because individuals can no longer feel confident that the details of their lives - from identifying numbers to... -
Where Automated Job Interviews Fall Short
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleResearch shows that these systems are often discriminatory, alienating, and deeply stressful for job seekers. -
Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy
Customer experience Digital ArticleIt claims Apple’s plan to give users more control over their data will harm small businesses. But the facts don’t add up. -
The Transparency Trap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo promote accountability, productivity, and shared learning, many organizations create open work environments and gather reams of data on how individuals... -
OkCupid's Co-Founder Probably Wouldn't Agree to the Experiments OkCupid Runs on Its Users
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleYou may have heard that OkCupid sometimes lied about potential matches' algorithmic compatibility for the sake of understanding its users. You may have... -
The Ethics Conversation We're Not Having About Data
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleVW's emissions systems didn't program themselves. -
Turn Employee Feedback into Action
Information management SpotlightKnow what to listen for—and how to respond. -
How GDPR Changed European Companies’ Tech Stacks
Digital transformation Digital ArticleResearchers studied 400 e-commerce firms to understand how they balanced efficiency and compliance. -
Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions
Customer experience Digital ArticleHere are the Fortune 100 companies with the best and worst policies. -
Balancing "We" and "Me": The Best Collaborative Spaces Also Support Solitude
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleThe open office is the dominant form of workspace design for good reason: It fosters collaboration, promotes learning, and nurtures strong culture. But... -
"Data Trusts" Could Be the Key to Better AI
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey allow organizations to pool data - while ensuring it's used responsibly. -
How to Capitalize on Generative AI
Technology & Operations SpotlightBusiness leaders are struggling to understand how seriously they should take generative AI. It has already displayed breathtaking powers to create new... -
People Who Keep Company Secrets Find More Meaning at Work
Behavioral science Magazine ArticleEntrusting employees with privileged information signals the organization’s confidence in them.
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Aadhaar: India's Big Experiment with Unique Identification (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Many people take identity for granted, confident that they can prove they are who they say they are by using a driver's license or other ID card. For... -
Algorithmic Bias in Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This note focuses on algorithmic bias in marketing. First, it presents a variety of marketing examples in which algorithmic bias may occur. The examples... -
Cancun, Mexico: Water System Privatization
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on the privatization of water and sanitation services in the city of Cancún, Mexico. Cancún's growth from a small fishing village in... -
The Year in Tech, 2025: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
Management Book22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, biometrics, spatial computing, electric vehicles--new technologies like these... -
Facebook (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Facebook was one of the many social networking Web sites (such as MySpace.com) that launched in 2004. A free-access site that allowed users to connect... -
Avalon Information Services, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the... -
Molson Canada: Social Media Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case describes Molson's experiment with social media for creating brand awareness. It illustrates issues involved in social media marketing. Molson... -
Privacy Issues and Monetizing Twitter
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details It was early 2010, and the Twitter Trio, the founders of Twitter, were faced with a changing market situation and a pressure to make money. Twitter was... -
SF Express: Data Wars
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details SF Express Group Co. Ltd. (SF Express) was a leading express delivery and logistics solutions provider in China. In May 2017, SF Express became involved... -
Ethics at the Frontier
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Today's society is characterized by a rapid state of change, and technological innovation plays a significant part in that. So how should one approach... -
Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI
30.00View Details What will you do when your AI misbehaves? The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates... -
Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to... -
ChoicePoint (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Aadhaar: India's Big Experiment with Unique Identification (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Many people take identity for granted, confident that they can prove they are who they say they are by using a driver's license or other ID card. For... -
Ubiquitous Surveillance (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
The Battle Over the Clinton Health Care Proposal
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case provides a succinct account of the high profile failure of the Clinton Administration's initiative to reorganize the US health care and health... -
Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World
28.00View Details Kids deserve a better digital future. Help them create it. When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and... -
Facebook (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Miranda Shaw had decided to do a Google search on the two finalists for the open position in her company. Based on the photos she saw on her preferred... -
A Tale of Two Managers Sequel
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This sequel is a follow-up to a short case intended as a vehicle instructors can use to introduce cases to a management or leadership class, and to start...
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Protecting Corporate Intellectual Property: Legal and Technical Approaches
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThe recent FBI v. Apple case has the potential to turn a 227-year-old statute law in into a tool for government agencies to gain access to personal and... -
Aadhaar: India's Big Experiment with Unique Identification (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Many people take identity for granted, confident that they can prove they are who they say they are by using a driver's license or other ID card. For... -
Google's AI Assistant Is a Reminder that Privacy and Security Are Not the Same
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThere are often tradeoffs between the two. -
Protecting Customers' Privacy Requires More than Anonymizing Their Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStatistical techniques can help marketers while keeping consumer data safe. -
Do You Care About Privacy as Much as Your Customers Do?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIf you don't protect your users' data, they'll find a company who will. -
Collect Your Employees' Data Without Invading Their Privacy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven things to consider before you start. -
Algorithmic Bias in Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This note focuses on algorithmic bias in marketing. First, it presents a variety of marketing examples in which algorithmic bias may occur. The examples... -
Data Privacy Rules Are Changing. How Can Marketers Keep Up?
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleAnalytics and automation technologies make it easier than you might expect. -
Understanding Your NDA (and When It Can Be Broken)
Business law and ethics Digital ArticleNon-disclosure agreements that restrict your ability to report misconduct to the government are illegal in the U.S. -
Cancun, Mexico: Water System Privatization
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on the privatization of water and sanitation services in the city of Cancún, Mexico. Cancún's growth from a small fishing village in...