Infrastructure As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 1999
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Lucent Technologies: Optical Networking Group

By: Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg

Set in June 1999, this case describes the development of a new platform product, the Wavestar OLS 400G, that responded both to a demand for greater "bandwidth" and aggressive competitors seeking to supply it. The 400G's development process took only 14 months and... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure

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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Exchange. 1887 Lehman Brothers becomes a member of the New York Stock Exchange. 1899 Lehman Brothers takes on investment banking activities, issuing its first public offering for the International Steam Pump Company. 1901–1925 Philip... View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

advancements such as online dating, reproductive technologies, and artificial intelligence. Historically, marriage has evolved from a contract for economic and reproductive security to View Details

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Self-Catering Self-supplied food and non-alcoholic beverages is referred to as "self-catering". Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct The School is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy... View Details

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(GHG) emissions . HBS has received requests to provide carbon credit recommendations to offset travel emissions as some don't deliver their expected GHG reductions. HBS is sharing a link to the CNaught... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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ハーバード - Global

May 2024 | Case Net Protections (A)(B) By: Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell; Nobuo Sato; Akiko Kanno In Case A, set in early 2017, Net Protections (NP) is the largest Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech service in Japan and is... View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

chain working?’ When Mills worked as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration in the Obama White House, she noticed a secret national treasure: A booming supply... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Service

September 2022
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ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger

Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America

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22 Jul 2002
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Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

Other industries as diverse as consulting, trucking, and heavy industrial services are seeing the same trend. Before explaining the benefits, drawbacks, and application of... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

Nisan-Ronen conjecture, especially given that the classic scheduling algorithms are anonymous, and all state-of-the-art mechanisms for special cases of the problem are anonymous as well. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2019
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Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

As Amazon’s stunning pullout from New York fades into the news archives, its potent lessons for business negotiators risk being lost. Highly promising deals in diffuse multiparty settings with many potential spoilers, like Amazon’s... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

29 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

04 Apr 2018
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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

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
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Transforming Healthcare Delivery at Karolinska University Hospital

By: Susanna Gallani, Mary Witkowski, Elena Corsi and Nikolina Jonsson

The case study examines the journey toward value-based healthcare at Karolinska University Hospital. The hospital's ambitious shift to a patient-centered care delivery model, accompanied by the construction of a new facility, encountered challenges such as high costs,... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Business Organization; Communication Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Health Industry; Sweden; Europe

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South Asia - Global

Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As View Details

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Fatima Albassam

In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to... View Details

23 Sep 2022
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8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

play As a venture develops, McDonald suggests borrowing from others’ ideas. There are plenty of examples of companies doing this successfully: Uber drew inspiration from the carpool-match View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

2013
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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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