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Elisabeth Ndour

HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents a whole new level of... View Details

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

around the topic of extortion. "The Shakedown" looks at the conflicts faced by the owner of a software development center in Kiev. Pavlo Zhuk, the U.S.-based co-owner, is notified by his partner that their Kiev office has been visited by Ukraine Tax Authority... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

development companies and private credit funds. We will develop a framework for understanding how a credit intermediary creates value. Module 3: Payments . We will explore the payments View Details

01 Mar 2022
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Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good

attempts to help those who remained there, she remembers, were undermined by the cumbersome money-transfer rails of the 1970s. “My mother would try to send over what little money she could spare, but the system made it nearly impossible,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel

expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle), designed around the use of small vehicles in places... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

the importance of giving patients and physicians more choices. Rather than imposing top-down controls, this approach enables users and providers to customize features such as benefits, levels of coverage, and bundling and payment of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a cash payment of up to $10 to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

through accurate measurement and reporting Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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The American Dream

mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

platforms running under eBay or Google or Rakuten. In some countries like Japan and Korea, one can do exactly the same thing on the Internet and over the mobile phone. And in Japan, mobile phones now... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

we are going to start with payments." Cook then invited Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet software and services, to the stage to explain how Apple Pay would transform the mobile View Details