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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together...
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist - Blog - Business & Environment
Rising Climate Stories Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC India 2024 - Development While Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net Zero MBA Teaching...
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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
- December 2019
- Supplement
Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)
By: Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma
Keywords:
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Infrastructure;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Korean Peninsula
Greenstein, Shane, Feng Zhu, and Susie L. Ma. "Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-060, December 2019.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
agency Millennium Challenge Corporation, where alumnus Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) has firsthand experience with largescale training and infrastructure efforts in Ghana ("Sizing Up Social Impact"). "A Healthy Profit" tells the story of...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy of MCC In effect from 2007 to...
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Julia Hanna;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 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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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
faced and an inability to respond effectively once they did. We focus particularly on the problems GM encountered in developing the relational contracts essential to modern design and manufacturing. We discuss a number of possible causes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
a real question in my mind whether companies here will continue to be competitive in developing flat-panel display innovations. Thompson: So exporting manufacturing ultimately drains away American innovation? Pisano: Absolutely. That's...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to...
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Pranav Kothari
materials used for industrial applications, like car fabrics." For Pranav, an MBA would give him a chance to develop necessary management skills and test his ideas. HBS topped his list of possibilities. "While working, I...
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- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
and run major infrastructure projects such as power and water. But a set of new property protections has done little to manage the risk in many of these politically unstable environments. Professor Louis T. Wells, coauthor of a recent...
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- 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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Keywords:
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.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,...
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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
geopolitical tensions around resources, technologies, and standards, which could undermine the economies of the developing world. Speakers in nearly every session mentioned the critical role of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
developed more critical opinions, and have grown the empathetic side of me. On this journey, I am thankful to have an extremely supportive husband, family, and friends there for me from across the globe. Why Singapore? When deciding what...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation View Details
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by Deborah Blagg
- 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
href="https://www.adb.org/search0/type/publication/type/institutional_document/country/india">Asia Development Bank: reports, policy briefs, and working papers from ADB. View Details