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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces
Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
would continue to bolster Senegal’s economy, like infrastructure investments and a booming agricultural industry. After less than a month of deliberation, the government of Senegal, through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
investments. "Funds with anchors are, on average, $9 million larger than those without anchors at last close." The initial anchor investment can serve as a quality indicator to other investors, including those that are more risk averse, less experienced, or... View Details
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Uzoma Nwagba
rewrite this plot—for myself, for my children, for CNN. Born to a politician mother and growing up in Eastern Nigeria, I have lived the spectrum of failing public institutions. I have watched clueless leadership, the nation's wealth carted away as education systems... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
infrastructure (support systems).” They have accounted for a substantial portion of the output and productivity of the world’s most developed economies. Now the anxious achievers occupying many leadership positions are confronted with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
change mitigation (as travel is diminished and virtual work infrastructures expand), risk assessment and emergency responses in hazardous environments, and large-scale biosafety, allowing our economic View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
costs (i.e., providing an infrastructure that can be used for many transactions between the different sides of the platform). All multi-sided platforms perform at least one of these three functions and many perform more than one. Credit... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Amanda Li MBA 2018 | COO & Co-Founder, Banyan Infrastructure “The world needs $3T+ more per year in sustainable infrastructure investments to meet climate goals, yet banks and funds are bottlenecked from... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details
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Gallatin Hall | About
architectural firm Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, preserved the building’s historic facade while reconfiguring the 48,218-square-foot interior space to provide 73 single bedrooms with private baths, 8 shared kitchens, 4 group-study rooms, and a spacious... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
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18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
increasingly apparent across professions worldwide, for all kinds of working women as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the United States and around the world. Leadership should consider childcare infrastructure at each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work
motivates employees to execute strategy effectively. The value of these programs is measured by the value they create in the enterprise, not by how little is spent on them. An adequate technology infrastructure and standard transaction... View Details
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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness
% of business leaders expect U.S. firms to be less able to compete, pay well, or both in three years. More from “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Research Tracks Core Readings PK–12 Education Transportation Infrastructure Cluster... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
no matter how many hours a day it takes. There is no better way to use my education.” – Leni Peterson Redondo The PBS headline is shocking. “Mexico City is running out of water.” The crisis is expected to hit this June and numerous reports blame “geography, growth and... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
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Is HBS Too Big?
potential friends, (nearly) perfected infrastructure and resources, clubs for anything you could be interested in, and a massive alumni base. I’ve experienced all of these things so far. It also gives you the benefit of numbers. There are... View Details