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- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
the BRI is considered one of the most ambitious infrastructure undertakings ever conceived. It comprises a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Africa to Europe. This signature foreign policy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
programs like FSNE that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that have already begun to move the region closer to that goal. One such program is with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Built to Last
North Carolina, and founded in 1926, CTE encompasses a portfolio of companies that sell, lease, and service heavy equipment like the backhoes, excavators, and forklifts used for everything from creating iconic infrastructure like the Blue... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s crumbling View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international resources and infrastructure... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
management worldwide. The fund has already invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse, and sewer infrastructure and maintenance. “This is an overlooked, giant... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
appreciation for the skills and friendships he and his son acquired at the School. While pursuing his MBA, Peter met fellow UK native and sectionmate Philip Hulme, and after graduation, the pair cofounded Computacenter, one of Europe’s largest independent providers of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"During the Gold Rush," EMC Corporation's Michael C. Ruettgers (MBA '67) reminded a Burden Hall audience last September, "a lot of infrastructure people got rich, along with a handful of gold panners." That's why, amid the glitz and glory... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
their three component parts. This change will give rise to three very different kinds of businesses: large infrastructure businesses, large customer-relationship businesses, and small, nimble product innovators. "Executives will be forced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
transportation systems and infrastructure research, and Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller is leading the middle-skills research. In 2013, Rivkin, with Senior Fellow Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer Kevin Sharer, examined how business... View Details
- 15 Apr 2022
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Funding His Purpose
money.’” In the years since, SITAWI has evolved to meet the ever-changing needs of the Brazilian nonprofit and for-profit positive impact community. It is now, in part, a lending platform. Instead of directly making loans, the organization provides the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
can do more to take advantage of. People don’t have that inherent kind of belief about trucks. I spent 12 years on the engineering side of the railroad industry, supervising infrastructure maintenance. I then had what I always describe as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
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2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,... View Details