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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India

By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in... View Details
Keywords: Biometric Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Quality; Performance Improvement; India
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  • 09 Dec 2019
  • News

The Power of Biometric Identification for Development

  • 16 Apr 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India

Keywords: by Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Nicole M. Jones was hired to lead The Hangar, Delta Air Lines’ new innovation center in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta’s leadership had intended for The Hangar to catalyze a new approach to innovation at the company. After conducting three months of research on... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Lab; Breakthrough Innovation; Biometric Technology; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Georgia (state, US)
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  • 22 Apr 2019
  • News

Keeping an Eye on Things

time now because there are many modalities that are emerging. The science and technology is accelerating for facial, iris, and there are many other physical characteristics that are still in the research and development arena, such as... View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
  • Web

GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, or containing genetic, biometric or health data or data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, and criminal convictions and offenses. Identifiable genetic, View Details
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
  • Supplement

Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Information; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Infrastructure; Identity; Projects; Information Management; Government and Politics; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Society; Welfare; Social Issues; Private Sector; Public Sector; Information Technology Industry; Asia; India; New Delhi
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  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

episodes in the future. Similarly, India is a pioneer in the creation of so-called digital public goods, building on its universal biometric identity initiative, which no nation has been able to replicate. To me, as an immigrant in the... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

IEBC than those who didn’t. Trust was even lower among those who voted for the losing coalition. Why the mismatch? Pons and his colleagues dug deep and discovered that part of the problem might have been due to the high expectations that the texts set, which were... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Ready for Departure

First-of-its-kind infrared proximity sensors detect the motion of a finger as it hovers over the screen; the same technology has been installed in the elevators. Passengers also have the option of registering their iris and facial View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine various View Details
Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health
  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

2014. The program involves linking a 12-digit randomly assigned number to a person's biometric data-a photograph, all 10 fingerprints, and iris scans of both eyes--as well as to demographic information, including name, address, date of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

certain key, collecting more than 2,000 data points. Research has shown that this behavioral biometric is highly consistent over time, seemingly unique to each individual typist, and nearly impossible for another person to replicate.... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 717-512 Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne