Credit Cards - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

they want, where they want for almost anything they desire. Associated with that, people are much more comfortable with ecommerce, giving their credit card numbers to Amazon and others, so the comfort and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company and has been appointed assistant sales manager of the Royal Baking... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Control and Prevention—using big data, such as cellular data, credit card usage information, and surveillance camera footage—traced the infected person’s steps to locate everyone that he or she had come into... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

tolerant. And it reduces your need to place trust in any individual centralized institution. In bitcoin, people submit transactions to the system, just like you might tell your credit card company to send... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

100-square-foot space in Bexley, Ohio. It had a window that faced a cinder-block wall. I had a card table, a computer, and a phone that I brought from home.” Not me: “If you had asked early on if I considered myself an entrepreneur, I... View Details

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

Andrea Pimienta, Class of 2021 My family’s life in the U.S. started in 1987, about four years before I was born, when my parents emigrated from Mexico to the U.S. for my father’s new job as the CEO of a company that offered an affinity discount View Details

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

major credit card company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-026 Collective Academy No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

Rock Center resources, including its fellowship programs. Students on a leave of absence do not have ID card access to campus buildings. A student on a leave of absence may be instructed by the Managing Director, MBA Student & Academic... View Details

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

in the United States. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709037 Consumer Payment Systems—United States Harvard Business School Case 909-006 In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

the costs of running the service, infrastructure, encoding, dealing with credit card companies, et cetera. Apple's profit comes from the sale of iPods and related products. It is no secret that a large... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments and banks to issue MasterCard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

reasons, or sabbaticals to work on other projects. They shouldn’t have to change companies to meet their needs. Cross-sell to clients. Clients are less likely to follow, say, a financial adviser to NewCo if they already have mortgages, trusts, and View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

that enables businesses to get paid immediately with their NOWaccount® in a way that feels like accepting a credit card for payment when a card is not offered. She also founded... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

card company that was licensed to use Disney images, and for the next three years she stayed put in Paris. With the help of a nanny, Dodi says she balanced work and family quite well, settling into the French rhythm of long midday breaks... View Details

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

within three years it had four million active customers. This success prompted line-of-business managers to request that Jen and Doug include more functionality in the bank's mobile app that was specific to its businesses, such as credit... View Details