Harvard news and trends

Harvard And Capital One Survey Mid-Market B2B ePayments Adoption
B2B Payments // November 07, 2018

When it comes to B2B payments digitization, not every company will experience the same journey. That’s especially true for firms of varying sizes: Whereas large, multinational conglomerates often struggle to make sweeping changes to their complex and siloed internal systems, smaller businesses often lack the...

Reports of Cheating Increases as Computer Science Goes Mainstream
Controversial // June 01, 2017

Plagiarism has made its way from traditional journalism-related courses to computer science programs across the country. But instead of copying papers and reports, students are ripping each other’s computer code off and claiming it as their own. A recently published article by The New York...

Chatbot Tracker: Friends’ Joey Tribbiani, Dead Friends, Brushing Habits And … Swearing
Chatbots // October 25, 2016

Indeed, chatbots have shown their timeliness, responsiveness and usefulness for many companies and consumers. Need to register to vote? A chatbot has you covered. Want to renew your driver’s license? They’re working on that. Have a food question? A chatbot will even help you order a...

As Lower-Score Consumer Access To Credit Dwindles, SMBs To Suffer
B2B Payments // April 19, 2016

A recent report by two Harvard researchers found that economic mobility among consumers with higher risk scores is hampered by lack of credit access, and U.S. small business owners who use personal cards to help their operations can be stymied, too.

Interviews & Exclusives
Supply Chains Will Shift, Digital Dollars Will Emerge Post-COVID

October 23, 2020
Post-pandemic, digital dollars will make their way across supply chains drastically reconfigured, and China will be out of the picture as the dominant U.S. trading partner. Maybe only a little of that will be true. The digital dollars part, at least. In an interview with Karen Webster, Dr. Paul Sheard, senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, […]

Quick Reads
Harvard Hacked For Second Time This Year

July 03, 2015
Harvard University revealed it has been hacked — again. While the breach occurred weeks ago, the news just surfaced yesterday when Harvard confirmed the news from multiple media outlets. A cyber alert was released recently saying that on June 19 there was an “intrusion on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Central Administration information technology […]