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13 Feb 2020
News

Coronavirus Likely to Infect the Global Economy

10 Jul 2024
Video

Inequality in the Digital Age | An interview with Mahzarin Banaji from Harvard University

05 May 2021
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A CEO’s Evolution from Hard Charger to ‘Somebody Who Believes in Human Magic’

22 Jan 2021
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An entrepreneurial approach to ‘possibility government’

November 2018
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frog design

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

The case follows the genesis and development of Palo, a radical urban communications hub designed to replace payphone booths on Manhattan’s city streets, through a joint venture between frog design and a venture-backed firm LQD WiFi. The case explores the complexity of... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Prototyping; User Experience Design; Design Heuristics; Telecommunications; Urban Systems; Communication Technology; Urban Scope; Innovation and Invention; Design; Product Development

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Educators

Purchase

04 May 2012
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Energy Clusters

10 Jul 2024
Video

Inequality in the Digital Age | An Interview with Kalinda Ukanwa from the University of Southern California

01 Nov 2013
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Excelling together

23 Aug 2021
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Power Can Be Abused, Scholars Say, or Harnessed for the Greater Good

23 Jul 2013
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Taking the Measure of Detroit

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change,... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

October 1995 (Revised October 1996)
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Singapore Unlimited: Building the National Information Infrastructure

By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King, Soon-Siong Neo and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Natural Environment; Expansion; Policy; Infrastructure; Singapore; Southeast Asia

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Find at Harvard

28 Sep 2016
News

Can Washington control high-tech lending?

August 2022
Case

Southwick Social Ventures

By: Henry McGee, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team had found a promising potential investment in Southwick Social Ventures (SSV), a worker and management-owned trouser manufacturer. With a 100% immigrant workforce, the co-operative was focused on reviving... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts

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Educators

Purchase

06 Mar 2019
News

Reimagining Capitalism

31 Jul 2024
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Ed Freeman: Can capitalism adapt to serve a changing world?

28 Mar 2018
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Wharton Business Radio with Tsedal Neeley

January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller

Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details