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Urban development
transportation or highway planning, infrastructure financing, building materials, and parks. This link leads to a search result in a variety of EBSCO databases. Journal of Planning Literature covers topics such as urban...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
would be nice to do. This is something we now have to do.” Probably the single biggest impact we can make is to take all the long haul movement of goods off the highways of the world and get them on either boats or rail. Once you get the...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
also have a stake. Transportation affects health and safety. And all of us want to get somewhere, primarily for work. The biggest use of highways in America is work commuting. Even in a world going digital, we still need physical...
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- 18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Raising the Barrio
waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños...
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April White
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
car - and hence the demand for one - was severely limited by the lack of many essential complementary products: roads, gas stations, mechanics, and more. The fledgling automakers did not leave the development of these markets to chance. For example, through the Lincoln...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites
as we know it.” —Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor “Herd behavior, greed, corruption, stupidity all played a role.” —Robert Glauber (DBA ’65), Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School “There will be more miles of View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net
and more cases, of doing business. As millions of individuals and organizations stake out positions on the Information Highway with Web sites, the nature of business is changing. "The Internet provides new ways to do old things," says HBS...
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Climate Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
States prioritizes plans for EV infrastructure that facilitates highway travel with fewer emissions than traditional vehicles, Asensio will accelerate his research into whether current policies and incentives might leave some communities...
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Transportation Infrastructure - U.S. Competitiveness
often-troubled and neglected mode. 51% of business leaders rate U.S. logistics infrastructure as falling behind that of other advanced economies More from “An Economy Doing Half Its Job” In the News 30 Apr 2014 USA Today Cities, states to lose big if View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a system of complementors...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
costs of peer comparison. Download the paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing Authors:Ejaz Ghani, Arti...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
seen employ this kind of model. "DART is a pioneer. It is a case study for larger companies to follow." "It's almost like somebody has the ability to build the Panama Canal or a highway through the jungle—whatever it is. If that...
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- 02 Feb 2004
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Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
especially true if groupthink may in some ways be a means to a worthy end. In Moses' case, he would brook no contrary ideas in amassing the power needed to fight bureaucracy and red tape while he built parks and bridges that were the envy of the world as well as...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
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American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue...
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- 06 Apr 2007
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Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Europe and Latin America has shown that governments are particularly concerned with maintaining control over the affairs of privatized monopolies. "For example, in the cases of electric utility privatizations in the United Kingdom and private View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
pushed the quick-charge capabilities of lithium-ion batteries well beyond what was once thought possible. And last November, the US Department of Transportation announced plans to establish 48 national charging corridors covering nearly 25,000 miles of View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
a massive interstate highway system might one day provide. "We need to understand not so much the technology," he explains, "but the progression of technology and what might be built with it. E-commerce, like electricity or the telephone,...
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Peter K. Jacobs