Mobile Payment Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

England, that develops payment systems for handheld devices. Torfason received his doctoral training from Columbia Business School. Gwen Yu, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit,... View Details

16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

911 from a landline phone. 911 was originally developed in the 1960s. The New York Times previously noted, as the system ages, “it is cracking, with problems like system overload, understaffing, misrouted... View Details

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

management's actions with the long-term interests of an organization and its investors is, of course, to delay payment of options until long-term performance has been proven. Charlie Cullinane suggests, for example, that an organization... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

behavior and ways to counter it with information on why to give. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50771 Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign... View Details

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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology

protect yourself when using hotel or airport Wi-Fi. Review our Best Practices for Traveling Abroad document, created in conjunction with other higher education institutes. Protect your Mobile Devices Keep the OS and apps on your device... View Details

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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

semiconductors, operating systems, streaming media, intellectual property, mobile communications, electronic ink, blockchain, crypto currency, and wearable technology. Course Content and Organization The course is structured into six... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Freyd); profit-oriented risk managers and payment processors such as insurers (R. MacKenzey, Emre Erkut, and others); specialized service providers (including malpractice lawyers) at various points in the channel (C. J. Cullinane, Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

and how can that apply to the United States? One reason is the sophistication of finance. The other is the growth of three specific technologies. Sophisticated financial tracking and smart mobile phone technology The sophistication of... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By Karen G. Mills [A] business owner has one system, perhaps QuickBooks or Xero, for their accounting software, one portal for bank transactions, another like HubSpot for marketing, and a separate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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Jeremy Sasson

would take the advice. Meanwhile, he applied his computer-science education to a number of technology roles. At Appconomy, Jeremy tackled mobile applications. The experience introduced him to the challenges of “understanding requirements,... View Details

Keywords: Tech

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

startup that designs satellite propulsion systems and hybrid fusion power plants. At Google he was a Vice President, and he was the Project Leader of Project Loon. Mike was the CEO and co-founder of several successful companies and served... View Details

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

but also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election, a decrease that was stronger in areas that experienced election-related violence as well as with individuals on the losing side of the election. The mobilization... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

wayfinding app, and your digital and mobile alerts. Fans need to know there's contact tracing and there's a way for them to know if someone was infected with COVID and they need to figure out who they interacted with, there's a lot of... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details

19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing View Details