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- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
When Apple introduced the iPod, it had a simple but compelling tag line for music fans: "1,000 thousand songs in your pocket." The company sold 300 million of them. On the eve of debuting its digital payment system, Apple Pay,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax... View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
debt. QE3 saw the Fed add a little more than $800 billion each of mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt. “We find that such a strategy would have allowed more households in distressed areas to lower their monthly payments... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
the cash flow edge. One aspect of this cash flow formula is the extent of time that small businesses wait for or don’t receive payment from the companies they supply. Insufficient or delayed financing is the second-most common reason for... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 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
- Web
3.1 Student Accounts | MBA
bills by e-mail and can view their student account using their Harvard Key. Payments may be made electronically or by check. Credit cards are not accepted. Charges for tuition and fees and all other charges such as rent, pharmacy charges,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
components what the New York Stock Exchange does with stocks." Winning bidders forward payment to FairMarket. The firm then ships the merchandise to the buyer and sends payment to the seller, retaining a 9... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
participants was induced through a "winner-takes-all" payment scheme: only the participant with the higher score would receive a payment for each correct answer. Cooperation was induced with a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
A novel approach to repaying debt could help consumers free themselves from crushing credit card balances faster, according to new research. Rather than asking borrowers to make payments toward their total balances, Harvard Business... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
nature of health care transactions with third-party involvement, the somewhat clunky EHR systems themselves that combine billing with health records, and fee-for-service payment systems. “Every time the patient moves, there’s another... View Details
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Clubs - Alumni
Give to HBS Learn about Planned Giving Recognition for Your HBS Giving According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here). Please consider making a gift today using our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
that hospital visits and usage plummeted, the perverse nature of the payment system meant Duke couldn’t benefit from saving its patients’ money — nearly $8,000 per person. In only one year, the program had reduced costs by 40 percent,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
companies, and others. Given these very different industries and consumption contexts, I was curious to see if there is variation in how people behave in these situations, what explains that variation, and whether sellers could subtly influence people’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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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MBA Admissions - Alumni
in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here). Please consider making a gift today using our online giving form . Thank you in advance. Find A Classmate Be found. Update your profile Search the Alumni Directory Update Your Profile... View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne