Mobile Payment Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Working PapersNone Available This Week Cases & Course MaterialsAssessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System Harvard Business School Note 808-026 Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing best practices with the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2004
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Books

mobilize their organizations to prevent them. Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Christensen and his coauthors (both MBA ’01) present a framework for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-060 Ant Financial Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA 2010) CEO, enVerid Systems Every year, the world adds 51 billion tons of greenhouse... View Details

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

shipment is little red scooters, with a 60-mile range. In the spring, we’ll have four-wheelers, with nice touches like windows you can operate and with a heater and that have a 60-mile range, and cost us less than those first scooters with a 10-mile range. That’s... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Lauren Cochran were considering whether to invest an additional $1 million in PEG’s upcoming $5 million Series B round, at a $20 million pre-money valuation. PEG offered pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

enormous collective negotiating power with respect to keystones. The same mobility that allows them to escape devastating technological transitions allows them to potentially "leave" a keystone that is trying to extract too much... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans

investigate some kind of central challenge to the broader society,” Thomas says. “How about a trek to the Sudan, or a trek to look at public education in places where school systems face major challenges?” D’Avella adds that the work in... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Health, Social Assistance

16 Jun 2015
Blog Post

Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS

gentlemen from India who had excelled in mobile payments and was now considering moving in to management consulting. I also met one of my best friends that first week— she heard that I had served in the... View Details

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently raging, outside of the public eye, between the advocates of two radically different View Details