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  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

& Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit card. Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413120-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-025 Amazon No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-053 Eko: Mobile Banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

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the online.hbs.edu and/or myhbx.org web domains) or any other websites, applications, programs or online or mobile products or services of Harvard Business School Online (collectively, the “Services”). The term “Services” includes the... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

communities throughout the United States to inspire young people to read. Visa operates the world's leading consumer credit card payment system. Although there is no obvious connection between the credit card business and literacy... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary payments to donors to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected televisions and a wide range of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy training, though... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Who Are We?

but he's not interested in the bulls and bears. Instead, his focus is on helping people in emerging markets pay their bills—which can often require hailing a taxi, heading out to a payment point, standing in line, and using cash to settle... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

in the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-048 BYJU's The Learning App BYJU’S The Learning App (BYJU’s) is India’s largest K-12 education app with about 300,000 annual paid subscribers. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

state initiative from above, civil society mobilized from below, using the judiciary to hold the state legally responsible for policy implementation. Reforms exposed acute gaps in service delivery, propelling new civic demands for state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

walks readers through the questions firms need to ask when integrating it into their strategies and operations. The article also includes HBR’s first embedded AR experiences, which readers can launch by downloading a new HBR app on their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

afflicting a city require a high capability for analyzing problems, delineating strategies, and ensuring implementation," says Austin. "These problems require an understanding of economic development and the capacity to mobilize and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

sales process, and some retailers did not understand why they should trust a small, young company with their payment security. By late 2017, Index had made some changes to reduce the average sales cycle, but there was still room for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

federal prosecutors declared us a criminal enterprise? I was sick as I notified our investors and briefed our board. We mobilized an attorney to the East Coast. The investor group met as scheduled the next day, and at one point, they... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios