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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
and institute more comprehensive data collection,” says Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of HBS’s CRG. “Our team has developed implicit bias training for case writers, and we’re helping our colleagues develop systems and the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
with a growing middle class in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. We hope to become the world's newest 'tiger states.' Bureaucracy and lack of appropriate infrastructure are challenges, but most African countries are now... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Risk and Rewards
Adebayo Ogunlesi (MBA 1979) is chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. In this interview he talks about the rewards of taking risks on unexpected opportunities. “People often ask me, ‘What is the best advice you... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing the way the world sees Africa
continent’s 54 nations focusing on current events, business, travel, arts, and culture. “When people have unbiased information about Africa,” says Clarke, “they appreciate the ingenuity, beauty and culture of this continent of a billion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Managing Change
In his previous role in Executive Education, Narayandas oversaw a transformation of its portfolio of programs and the facilities and infrastructure that support it. “By fostering careful growth—including via blended programs that draw on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
vest) tour the Reppie Waste-to-Energy project under construction near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — the first of its kind in Africa. (photo by John Macomber) Those interested in understanding how to successfully build complicated infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Porter: HBS alumni are in leadership positions all over the world, and they are making critical choices that determine the ultimate success of the US economy. The ability to get this in-depth information from our alumni and to have so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Schoenberg, an authority on bladder cancer, they formed a partnership, not only to treat Pulver's bladder cancer but also to write a patient-friendly book for other patients diagnosed with the disease. The book presents expert medical View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
agency Millennium Challenge Corporation, where alumnus Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) has firsthand experience with largescale training and infrastructure efforts in Ghana ("Sizing Up Social Impact"). "A Healthy Profit" tells the story of... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
photography business, DiCamillo observes, is on the threshold of change. "This industry is moving to digital," he explains. "Its evolution is being affected by the Internet, personal computers and peripherals, and the information... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
network — not just the backbone, but the access, too. The Internet right now runs too slowly, which is why building a new infrastructure is so critical.” That mission won’t be easy. For one thing, innovative and entrepreneurial business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international resources and infrastructure... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
will spur companies and governments to do things differently and create an infrastructure to better support people who are caregiving and working. What advice can you offer to business leaders who want to address these issues? BG: In the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The... View Details