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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
were deciding whether to participate in a Series B round for PEGAfrica, which sold solar home systems in Africa via pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small payments via View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
launching its MVP in Detroit automotive plants when COVID shut down businesses around the world. Yanez pivoted and developed a mobile app that would enable front-line workers to safely return to work. Between Q4 2020 and Q4 2021, Andonix... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
health policy, reimbursement and payment models, population health and care quality, technology and data analytics, workflow improvements, management tactics and more . Look for targeted news in industries like Biotech, Health IT and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example sustaining suppliers’ liquidity by... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
up with a new platform and trying to become the new dominant design." Other companies that have attempted mobile payments have run into similar problems. Google Wallet was limited by its compatibility... View Details
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Scams | Information Technology
links or open any attachments. Forward the message to phishing@harvard.edu . Delete the message. Fraudulent Duo Pushes Be mindful when your phone asks you to allow a Duo push. You should know (or be able to guess) what triggered a Duo push request. View Details
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Security & Privacy | Information Technology
a Duo push request. Mobile Payment Alert Not all fraud alerts are legitimate. Cybercriminals can impersonate mobile payment companies and send... 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
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Startups welcome growth but are often strangled by it. This podcast discusses how entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma is meeting this challenge with his mobile payments company Paytm. Why Millennials Flock to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
136,000 customers to allocate their credit card payments across 14 spending categories using the company’s mobile app. About 1.5 percent, or 2,157 customers, opted into the feature, which let them pay down... View Details
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Luciana Baigun
catch at the best prices. Curious, she asked her colleagues about the phenomenon and learned about M-PESA in Kenya, a mobile payment system that allows people without bank accounts to make and manage... View Details
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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
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
Summing Up Are Education And Mobility The Keys To Reaching The Right Amount Of Inequality? Questions about the right amount of inequality provoked thoughtful comment this month about the nature of the question, definitions, measures, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
much as one-third of a household’s annual income. If she receives payments in cash, her savings could easily be stolen or perhaps used by a male relative (men have more financial power in many cultures) for another purpose. If, instead,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing via SMS... View Details
- 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
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
existing scaled-up technologies in the mining industry for the novel application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
Ezuza, Inc., a Mexico City-based mobile payments company she launched in 2007 that focuses primarily on the unbanked and under-banked in emerging markets. Zuza means "gain" in Zulu; the e stands for... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-034 Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne