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APRIL 8, 2009 ABSTRACT: The mainstream media, high-tech blogs and traditional banking publications feature many articles and opinion pieces about the future of banking and payments, and these stories highlight new technologies, new business models and new companies. Few of these stories feature traditional players and banks, payment processors and the traditional financial services players [...]

ABSTRACT: This talk will take up the question of what consumers might ideally want from payment arrangements, going beyond the obvious transaction dimensions such as flexibility, convenience, speed, or privacy. Recent findings in behavioral economics and neuroeconomics suggest that payments and consumption are psychologically entangled in the mind of the consumer, and that satisfaction with [...]

ABSTRACT: This lecture will examine the ways games are influencing the future of business, and especially the future of banking. Among other topics, Ethan will cover the use of games for financial literacy and education, user experience design, increasing motivation and performance, and collective innovation and problem solving.
Learn more about the book at http://www.changingthegamebook.com/
WHO: Ethan [...]

Nicholas Lurie (Assistant Professor of Marketing, Georgia Institute of Technology): “Searching for Experience on the Web”
Location: Roth Room, MIT Media Lab (2nd Floor) Date: 12/04/2008 11:00am - 12:00pm +00:00
ABSTRACT: The lecture is based on an article co-written by Professor Lurie, entitled, “Searching for Experience on the Web: An Empirical Examination of Consumer Behavior for Search and Experience [...]