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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the...
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Deborah Blagg
- Web
Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
and cooling and deploying resilient infrastructure designed to withstand the impacts of climate change. 40% of GHG reductions required by 2050 could be achieved through energy efficiency, according to the International Energy Agency. [35]...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)
and their mothers to be more economically independent and to have a voice. We sometimes have to bring the infrastructure with us when we go to the schools. You can’t just arrive with your JA bag, then plug and play. Sometimes we have to...
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Julia Hanna
- April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
Linden Lab: Crossing the Chasm
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In early 2008, managers at Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, faced decisions about the company's growth strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had...
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Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Infrastructure;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Linden Lab: Crossing the Chasm." Harvard Business School Case 809-147, April 2009. (Revised August 2009.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
markets. Letelier’s original vision for SITAWI—which means “to develop and flourish” in Swahili—was as a lender. He would solicit grants the organization would in turn use to give loans to nonprofits. “My pitch to the donor was, ‘If you...
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- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing...
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- Profile
Jonathan Bailey
job after graduation, but for many years to come." For Jonathan, that future involves bringing the best of his past forward. Having spent his last summer at the World Bank working on infrastructure investment in Kenya, for his HBS...
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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
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- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
doing this summer? I’m working on the payments engineering team at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job is to handle everything that relates to the ordering process: we work with Stripe, our payments API, build the discounts infrastructure, and...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
(MBA '98), founder and CEO of edu.com. Another group, with panelist Malik Khan (MBA '82), founder and CEO of Sitara Networks, discussed "The Internet Infrastructure Conundrum." In his concluding remarks, Garage.com's Kawasaki outlined a...
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- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
H. Duell, Commission of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 (early in Gordon’s “special century”). What I believe, based on personal homework, is limited to just a few things: (1) there is economic growth and then there is economic growth, (2) some industries—construction...
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by James Heskett
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
community’s problems. Today’s residents—predominantly young and about half immigrants from Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru—are among the city’s most vulnerable. Rodríguez Larreta’s plan for developing the neighborhood is an ambitious one....
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April White
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related...
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- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
sustainability. “Private investors will need to fund not only real estate development, but also the supporting urban infrastructure systems” In his multiple roles as a member of the HBS faculty teaching courses in Real Estate View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration is high, even among low-income groups—Gupta and Mahajan View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Broido Johnson MBA 2002 | Leading Change, Locally “I’m developing new financing solutions that make it more affordable for people to use renewable energy (as we did at SunEdison) and working with entrepreneurs across the clean energy...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
officials took steps to speed vaccine development last year, the United States and other countries could have paid to build manufacturing infrastructure and shore up the supply chain needed to produce...
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
South Asia South Asia Immersion Offers Students Insight on Development in Sri Lanka Pictured: Students in front of a model of the Port City Colombo Project in Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the final leg of a three-country immersive course...
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