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Expert says ‘Twitter spies’ committed espionage but broke no federal privacy laws, because there are noneTwo Twitter employees used their access at the social media giant to gather sensitive and nonpublic information on dissidents of the Saudi regime. According to IT, Analytics & Operations professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple, the global nature of social media makes user data an attractive target for foreign intelligence agencies.
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2 Ex-Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi ArabiaNPR interviewed ITAO's Mike Chapple, who says Twitter should have known that its employees were working for a foreign power.
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US: Saudis Recruited Twitter Workers to Spy on CriticsThe New York Times published comments by ITAO professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple in an article about the recent data breach at social media giant Twitter by employees.
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Saudis recruited Twitter employees to spy on critics, prosecutors sayProfessor of IT, analytics and operations and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple commented on the unmasking of users by two Twitter employees on behalf of a foreign government in a USA Today article. According to Chapple Twitter failed to follow the basic IT security principle of granting employees the minimum level of access to perform their duties.
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US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on criticsIT, Analytics and Organization professor and Academic Director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple commented in an MSN Money article about Twitter's response to the data breach by two Twitter employees. According to Chapple user data should be accessible by the smallest number of employees possible.
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US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on criticsAP News covered the recent discovery that Twitter employees exposed user data to a foreign government, which was completely avoidable according to comments by ITAO professor and director of the MSBA program Mike Chapple.
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Bond mutual funds may hold riskier holdings than reported, NBER study findsFindings by a U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research team led by finance professor Huaizhi Chen reveals approximately 30% of fixed-income mutual funds contain ‘misclassified’ holdings. In a piece for Market Watch, Chen explains how and why the misreporting happened.
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Soon Aramco will have a priceMatt Levine's Money Stuff in Bloomberg featured a working paper by Finance's Huaizhi Chen.
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Why investors might want to bet on humble CEOsA study suggests humble CEOs are better for companies' earning potential, but while management and organization professor Craig Crossland likes the theory he comments in the Wall Street Journal piece that he believes the study itself leaves gaps that could introduce bias.
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A new era for business researchIn a piece for BizEd adjunct distinguished professor of management and organization Anne Tsui gives historical perspective on how the current emphasis on publishing in academic journals evolved and what she and other academics believe should be a return to the original purpose of business schools, which is to solve actual business problems.
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