Infrastructure As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2017
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Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a Danish social enterprise organization, the initiative taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, including attention to detail,... View Details

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

05 May 2011
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Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck

job, Morgan elaborated on that earlier comment. “Glenn Beck is enormously fascinating to me because he is undeniably a national brand,” she said. “He has a strong, multiplatform, devoted audience. It’s an... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Sep 2005
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Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point

once again. Some 2,800 graduates and guests from five MBA classes took to the campus as though they’d never left, enjoying a busy schedule of social events and academic presentations by HBS and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Leading a community of health care providers

vision is to make DaVita (Italian for “giving life”) “the best dialysis company the world has ever seen.” Thiry is known as the “mayor of DaVita Village” by the company’s more than 50,000 employees, who are referred to View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

head started spinning: Okay, what did I see here? What are the implications?” As a researcher, Ofek’s interests include toy brands, and he’s written more than one case study in the space, View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

people don't want Big Brother. We’re just saying, there’s a cost to that,’” notes Weiss. The downside Bay points to is that if users don’t give the government access to their data, public health officials aren’t View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

consisting only of herself, a girl named Maqboola. In her full-length, long-sleeved dress, red headscarf, and blue flip-flops, 11-year-old Maqboola was singing with as much gusto View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 Sep 2015
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On a Mission to Have an Impact

travel. Allow them to really feel like they are living like a local and connecting them with people from local communities as they travel, to get a much better sense of what... View Details

22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

to sit down, work, use Wi-Fi.” He unabashedly cites a “Starbucks-like feel” as the objective, although some essential parts of that experience may take even longer to develop than View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

15 Sep 2015
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Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

orphanage, Andrew would smile shyly at us, as if asking ‘What about me?’ I don’t know what happened to him, but chances are he didn’t get adopted.” The unfairness of the situation prompted Taylor to action. He and his wife founded... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

core business to ensure that essential complements get off the ground. As desktop videoconferencing takes off, so, too, will demand for Intel's newest chip, the Pentium Pro. That is why the company has invested more than $100 million in... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

“It’s been a great boost, and top-line results followed.” What’s ahead: Last spring the company raised $15 million in Series B funding, which will help GAIA expand into other densely populated urban areas in Mexico, View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption

those days. There were very few VC-backed startups and not much of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It was what author and venture capitalist Alex Lazarow would define as a “frontier market”—a place where... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table

several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

30 Nov 2017
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SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

The beam going up (photos by Ashley Garrett, MBA 1987) The Harvard community marked a major milestone on Wednesday as members gathered along Western Avenue in Allston to celebrate the “topping-off” of the... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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A World of Information at Your Fingertips

The next time you need to do Career Planning or business research, Baker Library can help. With the click of a mouse, its eBaker online service delivers a trove of brand-name... View Details