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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
coaxial, twisted pair, microwave, cellular and more—and an equally dizzying array of networked appliances, content and commerce sources and industry players. What will the U.S. telecommunications View Details
- Profile
Pranav Kothari
a deeper understanding of context, of culture and government policies. In Vietnam, our faculty guide, Regina Abrami, was exceptionally insightful because of her research background. On the IXP, I gained a deeper knowledge of Asia's View Details
- Web
Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
and cooling and deploying resilient infrastructure designed to withstand the impacts of climate change. 40% of GHG reductions required by 2050 could be achieved through energy efficiency, according to the International Energy Agency. [35]... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's... View Details
Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Goldberg, Ray, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Djordjija Petkoski. "Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Harvard Business School Case 914-401, December 2013. (Revised April 2014.)
- April 2016
- Case
Detroit: On the Right Track?
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The case covers the rise of Detroit, the city’s devastating fall, and the ongoing potential... View Details
Rivkin, Jan W., and Manjari Raman. "Detroit: On the Right Track?" Harvard Business School Case 716-444, April 2016.
- Article
Pricing and Financial Resources: An Analysis of the Disk Drive Industry, 1980-88
By: J. Lerner
Lerner, J. "Pricing and Financial Resources: An Analysis of the Disk Drive Industry, 1980-88." Review of Economics and Statistics 77, no. 4 (November 1995): 585–598. (Symposium on Hedonic Methods in Industrial Economics.)
- September 2000
- Case
Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute (A)
Steve Briggs, a PhD biologist, is asked to propose a strategy to take global life-science giant Novartis into the rapidly expanding field of plant genomics. View Details
Keywords: Design; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Genetics; Infrastructure; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry
West, Jonathan, and Christian G. Kasper. "Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-010, September 2000.
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
economic growth in industrial countries began to slow down. All of a sudden companies found that they couldn't do everything. They had to make some choices and needed a way to think about it. The economics of strategy seems to be a very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
expenditures using project finance in 2006, up from $217 billion in 2001. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 13% over the past 10 years. Focuses primarily on private sector investment in industrial and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
already the leading network infrastructure supplier globally, ahead of Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson. It is a leader in optical network equipment, and has passed Apple in smartphone sales (outside the US, of course). In the US, it is... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
in business and public policy thanks to the many generous fellowships she received, Kyarisiima has returned to East Africa, where instead of focusing on infrastructure she is helping to build businesses in the region. “I’m passionate... View Details
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
across the country. This January, as part of Harvard Business School's lmmersive Field Course (IFC) in India on "Decarbonizing While Developing," we had the privilege of exploring how various industries are tackling the dual challenges of... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
political economy of decarbonization With a focus on studying the politics of clean energy transitions and probing why some economies are moving faster than other, Meckling plans to examine the recent rise of green industrial policy... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- Article
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case
By: Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Alan MacCormack
In this paper, we test a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) based method for visualizing and
measuring software portfolio architectures. Our data is drawn from a power utility company, comprising 192 software applications with 614 dependencies between them. We
show that the... View Details
Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Alan MacCormack. "Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architecture: A Power Utility Case." Special Issue on DSM Conference 2014. Journal of Modern Project Management 3, no. 2 (September–December 2015): 114–121.
- June 2001
- Article
Playing by the Rules: How Intel Avoids Antitrust Litigation
By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Yoffie, David B., and Mary Kwak. "Playing by the Rules: How Intel Avoids Antitrust Litigation." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 6 (June 2001): 119–122. (Reprint R0106H.)
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more... View Details
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
protect their environment and their people while still having a thriving industrial economy." Austin Blackmon MBA 2013 | From HBS to the Mayor's Office "Our goal is for Boston to be carbon-free by 2050. So what are the policies that we... View Details