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Pranav Kothari
a deeper understanding of context, of culture and government policies. In Vietnam, our faculty guide, Regina Abrami, was exceptionally insightful because of her research background. On the IXP, I gained a deeper knowledge of Asia's industrial and manufacturing... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
people, including those who've been recently unemployed, to create a cohort of testers, screeners, and contact tracers that could help build the infrastructure to respond to the crisis and deal with some of the unemployment that we are... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
School of Public Health and director of the Healthy Buildings program there. John Macomber is a senior lecturer in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses in real estate and infrastructure finance. They are... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
McBride. "Digital assets" were the currency, in the form of ad, television, movie, and videogame song placement, ringtones, mixes, and community-created content. But new artist-label contracts were needed if digital assets were going to flow freely. Moving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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James Reinhart
our shopping infrastructure to support more data and site traffic. We’ve just opened a second distribution center where we’ll need to hire 500 to 600 people over the next two years to support the operation. What questions does that raise... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
have the technology infrastructure and the dynamic, startup companies to bring New Nuclear to the table quickly. Three such startups are Martingale, Inc., of Tavernier, Florida; Transatomic Power, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and... View Details
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SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE - MBA
2025) Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Admissions Events Check out our upcoming webinars, prospective... View Details
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Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS - MBA
Infrastructure Investment Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) Admissions Events Check out our upcoming webinars, prospective student days, and information sessions on campus and around the... View Details
Mills B. Lane, Jr.
accounts. He was recognized by the Journal of Marketing as a pioneer in bank promotions. Beyond expanding the base of the bank, Lane was instrumental in building Atlanta’s cultural and commercial infrastructure after the Second World War. View Details
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Don H. Barden
build the cable infrastructure for the city. Barden eventually signed up over 100,000 customers (one-third of the homes in Detroit) and sold his cable division in a deal that netted $100 million in 1994. Barden has gone on to pursue... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 01 Feb 2002
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HBS Expands Global Presence
particularly when that work involves an international dimension. We want the ERC to provide a complete infrastructure for faculty so that they can develop cases in the most favorable conditions possible." HBS professor Dwight B. Crane,... View Details
- January 2020
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Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil
By: Julie Battilana, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey and Priscilla Zogbi
Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban areas and the official landowners—with the aspiration to improve the lives of the poor. A business-led approach to the... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Power and Influence; Social Issues; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Battilana, Julie, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 420-092, January 2020.
- February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Cable Data Systems
By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga
Describes the operating challenges of Cable Data Systems (CDS), a minority-owned cable installation company with a dual mission of maximizing profits and providing employment opportunities to minorities in urban markets. Following the merger of two cable installation... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Employment; Forecasting and Prediction; Urban Scope; Cost Management; Infrastructure; Labor Unions; Demand and Consumers; Demographics; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Boston
Marshall, Paul W., and Todd H Thedinga. "Cable Data Systems." Harvard Business School Case 803-132, February 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on their own things," says... View Details
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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software
By: Ranjay Gulati and Eppa Rixey
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-052. View Details
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Applying KISS to Healthcare Information Technology
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo Seltzer and Mark Gaynor
Current public and private healthcare information technology initiatives have failed to achieve secure integration among providers. Applying the "keep it simple, stupid" principle offers the key guidance for solving this problem. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Public Health; Information Technology Industry; Computer Networks; Computer Services Industries; Software; Hardware; Medical Services; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Standards; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Margo Seltzer, and Mark Gaynor. "Applying KISS to Healthcare Information Technology." Computer 46, no. 11 (November 2013): 72–74.
- May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
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Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens
By: Willy Shih
This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
Shih, Willy. "Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens." Harvard Business School Case 616-060, May 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
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Global Infrastructure Basel Project Analysis Spring 2014 | Focus: Infrastructure Grading and Early Stage Financing Team: Xiaozhou Ju Description: The objective of the project is to study the impact and... View Details
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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... View Details
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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
coverage. Macro Outlook, VCPE & Infrastructure Funding: View Details