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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Salience through Information Technology: The Effect of Balance Availability on the Smoothing of SNAP Benefits

By: Andrew Hillis
Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) run out of most benefits before halfway through a benefit deposit cycle. I study the introduction of a mobile software application, Fresh EBT, that enables beneficiaries to check their available balance... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Technology; Welfare or Wellbeing; Technology Adoption; Behavior
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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

paperwork, borrowers complete applications in minutes, with approval times cut to days, or even just a few minutes. And, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place,... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Deep Blue Eyes on the Greek Isles by Dimitri S. Sarantis (MBA 1979) (Demetrios Sarantis) A romantic suspense novel involving a young Greek businessman and a young Greek applicant to HBS, whose romance is... View Details
  • Web

Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Capitalism and the State (CATS) Course Number 1120 Professor Debora L. Spar Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Weekly seminar Paper Enrollment by application only. Students should submit their View Details
  • May 14 2021
  • Short Film

Competing in the Age of AI

  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

promotes education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books and conversations on topics of race, identity, systemic racism, and antiracism. Kate Handley (MBA... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

Using a novel bacteria, Coryntech is developing low-cost, high-purity enzymes to help unlock the $4 trillion bio-economy revolution. Greentopia - Aishwaya Amuda (MBA 2024) - B2B carbon accounting and emission mitigation View Details
  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 03 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

insufficient room to collaborate. Zhu and his collaborators predict that as digitization increasingly de-couples hardware and software in many industries, corporate frenemies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
  • July–August 2021
  • Article

Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

By: Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton
Problem definition: As trust in government reaches historic lows, frustration with government performance approaches record highs. Academic/practical relevance: We propose that in co-productive settings like government services, peoples’ trust and... View Details
Keywords: Government Services; Behavioral Operations; Operational Transparency; Government Administration; Service Operations; Programs; Perception; Attitudes; Behavior; Trust
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  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

an FDA application. While the FDA’s standard new drug application review takes 10 months, the entire development process often takes more than a decade, says the CBO report. During that time, a drugmaker isn’t profiting from its... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

businesses, made acquisitions in digital innovation and cloud computing, formed partnerships with former competitors such as Apple and tech startups, and invested in internally... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Feb 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Grown and Flown: Parenting Through the High School Years

High school is a time of dynamic growth for kids who enter in 9th grade with one foot still in childhood and graduate four years later, well on their way to adulthood. But teens are not the only ones in a family who are changing. Adults, too, must learn to adapt to the... View Details
  • 08 May 2025
  • Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

maximize the number of walks per day. It’s a fun story to look back on, but it also highlights that, from an early age, I was passionate about bringing ideas to life. As I grew older, that desire only expanded in scope and scale. When I... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

lead examples show how effective market design can encourage participation, reduce gaming, and aggregate information, in order to improve liquidity, efficiency, and equity in markets. We also discuss a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services

reason, we keep at least one to two versions of Stata installed on the HBSGrid to guarantee that changes in versions (and the underlying math and software libraries) do not cause unexpected problems. At this... View Details
  • 2024
  • Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills
The second edition of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, builds on the groundbreaking 2019 book with new insights on how technology and artificial intelligence are transforming small business lending. This ambitious view covers the significance of... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; AI; AI and Machine Learning; Small Business; Economy; Technology Adoption; Credit; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • January 2004
  • Background Note

Beyond the IT Monolith

By: Marco Iansiti and Gregg Rotenberg
Leading companies are employing a radical new approach to IT--an approach that points the way to a new model of software architecture and deployment. These companies' successes seem to indicate that the problems IT critics have correctly identified are not, in fact,... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Business Processes; Change
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