Publications

June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
Case

Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura

Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

1995
Working Paper

Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspective

By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

May 11, 2015
Article

What It Will Take to Fix America's Crumbling Infrastructure

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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05 Jul 2024
News

The EV Revolution Is Stalling Out. Blame Prices and Infrastructure

October 1995 (Revised March 1997)
Background Note

The National Information Infrastructure (A): The United States in Perspective

By: George C. Lodge, Jeffrey F. Rayport, Thomas A. Gerace and Afroze A Mohammed

Keywords: Information; Infrastructure; United States

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17 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin

13 Feb 2018
News

President’s Infrastructure Plan Is Not Adding Up For Some

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

24 Feb 2014
HBS Conference

America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century

May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details

Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America

14 Jun 2015
News

‘Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead,’ by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

2005
Chapter

The Economic Geography of Internet Infrastructure in the United States

By: Shane Greenstein

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19 Jan 2022
Podcast

Making Infrastructure Climate Ready: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations

In early 2021, a severe winter storm knocked out Texas’ power grid for days, leaving millions shivering in the dark and killing hundreds of residents. Other states have also been caught off guard by extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change. This episode of... View Details

May 15, 2015
Article

America's Leaders Need to Tell a New Story About Infrastructure

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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2013
Other Unpublished Work

Infrastructure for Ore: Benefits and Costs of a Not-So-Original Idea

By: Louis T. Wells

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2003
Report

The Social Impact of the Argentine Crisis on the Infrastructure Sectors

By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier, V. Foster, D. Petrecolla, O. Chisari, D. Bondorevsky, I. Canay, J. Cardozo, G. Ferro and C. Romero

January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
Case

Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?

By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li

In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the... View Details

Keywords: Belt And Road Initiative; Investment; Infrastructure; China; Sri Lanka

February 1999 (Revised August 2000)
Case

InterGen and the Quezon Power Project: Building Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

Examines InterGen's breakthrough Quezon power project, located in the Philippines. Explores how InterGen evaluates and manages project risk through partner selection, the use of operating contracts, and project finance techniques. View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines