Street Infrastructure - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

people, including those who've been recently unemployed, to create a cohort of testers, screeners, and contact tracers that could help build the infrastructure to respond to the crisis and deal with some of the unemployment that we are... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

you think? Share your insights in the comments below. References:Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People (New York: Delacorte Press, 2013). Jennifer Maloney and Lauren Weber, "Coke’s Elusive Goal: Boosting Its Black... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

international investments: on what investors are actually doing. "The kind of information that had been available was very sparse. State Street Bank has an IT infrastructure which allows them, in a very... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

States, Europe, and Japan, it was supposed to examine two sectors: first, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which helped bring about the Second Industrial Revolution between the 1880s and 1920s, and second, consumer electronics and computers, which provided... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

enable efficient response; and an infrastructure for daily management and continuous improvement of the chain's performance. Furthermore, we find that employees on the service delivery unit spent 12% of their day compensating for internal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

inefficiencies and capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more business law attorneys); lowering barriers to entry for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great interest—and enormous trepidation. Can one find serious growth opportunities amid extreme poverty... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

rudimentary auction technology that would work across the network. What was difficult was getting the right information at the marketplace. It became clear that there needed to be a whole market infrastructure to create these new kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

its infrastructure for societal uses, or whether to exploit a commercial opportunity related to launching small, handheld cubesats. The case explores the basis for ISRO’s cost advantage vis-à-vis western entities, as well as its resource... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

instruments," said Rose. "Most of the firms on Wall Street followed each other around to the same parts of the market and ended up mimicking each other, which is a classic strategic failure. So when the subprime crisis hit they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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