Infrastructure As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

for reducing waste, requires a modular approach to construction with extensive prefabrication. This also makes it possible to embed technology, such as sensors and actuators, into the very fabric of the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Service

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

conflict of interest settlement, many brokerages such as Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan Chase are outsourcing a lot of the number crunching activities of sell-side analysts to places like... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

shake and shift markets." One advisor to two sovereign funds, Jack Cramer, points out that at least in his experience "the funds are ... in no sense aggressive or eager to lead in a sector. As... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

study was a concern that people aren’t saving enough, and that as a result, they won’t have an adequate standard of living in old age.” Beshears is part of the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

growth. One respondent turned the topic on its head, posing a more interesting question of whether equality fosters productivity. Several felt that innovation and productivity increases are leading to inequality. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

network, but pay only for those ads that entice a consumer to make a purchase. (This setup is different from other online advertising such as banner ads, where the seller pays... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

But what if technology had the power to make a small business owner significantly wiser about their cash flow, and a lender wiser as well? What if new loan products and View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

By the end of the 1980s IBM's PC, its clones, and their two primary suppliers, Intel (microprocessors) and Microsoft (operating system software), had defined the computer industry as effectively as the IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and other major weapons systems. The text is also available View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Olympics can be pulled off only by large, rich cities that have most of the existing infrastructure and venues in place and access to substantial subsidies. A supportive political environment (think Seoul,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

(the) future going to come from? Which schools, if any, business or otherwise, are teaching these skills?” One way to respond to his questions is to look into the educational backgrounds of those cited as potential candidates by other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services; Financial Services

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

something," and identify ways to change the business. Also on the technology front, Stevenson urged companies to consider using hosting services and application service providers to manage... View Details