infrastructure - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

anywhere, and to any industry. That kind of infrastructure can look very different from place to place. In Boston, it took the shape of District Hall, a public venue in the city’s Seaport District that functions as a communal gathering... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

other advantages, SEEQC’s digital control chips should also make quantum computing more affordable: Levy and his team estimate that the infrastructure required to maintain a single qubit currently costs between $8,500 and $15,000, while... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city must be prepared to tackle... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

04 Nov 2016
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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 site of a catastrophic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

roles, but hospitals’ current organizational infrastructure inhibits their ability to meet those needs.” Like Hue, the concept for M7 Health was born while its cofounders were still at HBS. “We actually started this business in Julia... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Sep 2015
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Getting New Ideas off the Ground

of the things that we learned was that you could target advertising in a very different way if you were to think about the cable infrastructure differently. So we built another company in the advertising technology space, called Spot... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution

infrastructures common in nonprofits, as well as frequent culture clashes. “Eight months in nonprofit time is about a morning in Internet time,” one Web executive noted. Technical challenges, such as incorporating a charitable aspect into... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a smart commercial investment;... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

so that everybody feels like they have a role in making that vision come true. They also set up the systems and infrastructure for people to be effective within that organization, to collaborate and solve problems together and continually... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

Americans, perpetuating intergenerational income inequality. Companies should reflect on what their role should be. There are numerous instances of local activism by companies, particularly those in the infrastructure business, addressing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

the efforts of current conference organizers as well as creating a sustainable infrastructure for future conferences. As I mentioned, the Global Alumni Conferences play a vital role in our continuing education mission. The conference... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

evaluate program implementation. Which schools needed more teachers? Where did new buildings and other infrastructure need to be built? And most important, Paul says, “How could learning levels be maintained and enhanced even while the... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

utility vehicles and tractors for the Indian market in the 1950s. Today, it is a $6.6 billion enterprise involved in many activities, including information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial services, as well... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

fundamental means by which people interact in any organization.” Her research—published in her award-winning 2017 book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations (Princeton University Press)—“wouldn’t have happened... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly

free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung

skills to develop its infrastructure and revive heavy industry. "Guess who's going to be in there?" he says with a smile. "The guys who were sewing garments in Hong Kong in the 1970s will now be running steel plants in China." With the... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

shot because we thought it was very important for people who look like us to just get some exposure. Well, big private equity firms can do that. They just got to create the infrastructure to do it. They got to create the culture so that... View Details

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer.... View Details