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- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
advertising as well as other opportunities for multi-tasking while we await responses to our last click. Original Article We are witnessing a race to reduce the time required to fill the tank of a car with gasoline. Why, when Mobil introduced its Speedpass, allowing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card issuers, and brokers, as well as a host of entrepreneurial ventures in this space. Q: When did you get... View Details
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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising 1865 - 1910 Research Links Bibliography Site View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Trade Catalogs National Markets Advertising Products Trade Catalogs Trade... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business... View Details
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
get paid immediately for a flat 2.5% merchant fee, which is akin to accepting a credit card for payment but at atypically lower fee. NOWaccount is not a loan or debt, it is simply a revenue accelerator like... View Details
- 24 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer Finance Industry
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
overwhelmingly reported they would pay wages first, but health care premiums were the second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent,” the researchers write. “As one respondent put it, ‘[h]ealth insurance is so important to my employees that I would even... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
adding that he sent out 500 printed cards announcing the formation of Paulson & Co. Then, he says with a laugh, “I sat by the phone waiting for it to ring.” No one called, but he persevered, managing his own money while knocking on doors.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
of more than $8.5 billion, was started in 1978 with $9,000 on a credit card by a man named Bill Rasmussen, who got pushed out the door in less than a year. That early exit brought to mind John Kao’s class on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections Visual Resources More Exhibits Exhibition Gallery Research Links Site Credits The Art of American Advertising: Brand Name Management National Markets Advertising Products Trade... View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
stock and see if it is positive or negative.” Finance is another field in which Teodorescu predicts that machine learning will become more common, as banks and financial companies will use data about how customers use money to predict future patterns. “If you are a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
week, a handful of new companies open themselves up to the public through Republic’s platform, where it often takes just $25 and a credit card to buy in. (In Roomi’s case, the minimum investment on Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
credit cards to the cost of a cheeseburger. Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business by David Soskin (MBA ’79) (Wiley) Soskin, the former CEO of Cheapflights Media and current chairman of... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
Anderson, who is currently the senior vice president of strategic planning at Fleet Boston's credit card division. Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power —you have to believe in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
marketed credit cards for Chemical Bank, then MasterCard. But she always found time to volunteer, recording books for the visually impaired, and reading to elementary school students on her lunch hour. A... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
their credit card, and then they also supplied the bank's address in the billing address fields. This caused the transaction to fail with the credit card processor. Simply... View Details