Roads - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2010
News

Not Your Average Road Trip

Keywords: Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand

Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico

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August 2019 (Revised November 2019)
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Road Rage at the DMV

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Andrew Wasynczuk and Karim Sameh

Teaching Note for HBS No. 918-013. View Details

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May 11, 2008
Article

Low Road of Negative Ads

By: John A. Quelch

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September 1994 (Revised October 1994)
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Road to Monetary Union, The

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March 2019
Article

The New Silk Road: Implications for Higher Education in China and the West?

By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende

Recent geopolitical events, such as Brexit and the retreat from multilateral trade and cooperation by the USA, have created waves of uncertainty, especially in the field of higher education, regarding international cooperation. Meanwhile, China is publicly seeking to... View Details

Keywords: New Silk Road; Globalization; Higher Education; Global Range; International Relations; Cooperation

September 2010 (Revised December 2011)
Case

WildChina: Taking the Road Less Traveled

By: Mukti Khaire, Daniel Isenberg, Victoria Song and Shirley Spence

This case deals with supplier difficulties faced by WildChina—a travel service provider in China. WildChina is a classic case of a company that is trying to bring a local, within-country product to a market outside the country (in this case, travelers to China from... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Local Range; Globalized Markets and Industries; Supply Chain Management; Conflict Management; Travel Industry; China

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27 Feb 2014
News

Fiber Internet More Important Than Roads

19 Jan 2010
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MBA Students, Faculty Hit the Road

Keywords: Professors Lou Wells, Joe Lassiter, Shikhar Ghosh

13 May 2015
News

America’s roads & rails in peril

25 Aug 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested

Robin Gregg (MBA 2002) grew up in the West Virginia town of Martinsburg, 15 minutes from the midpoint of the Appalachian Trail. “Most of the people I looked up to were doctors, lawyers, or teachers, so it’s funny that I ended up in business,” she says. One of five... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; trucking; leadership; fintech; career

20 Mar 2014
News

MTV Pioneer's Long and Winding Road

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

May 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Teaching Note

The Road to Kolkata: NH-34 and PPP in India

By: Sid Yog and Ben Eppler

It is May 2014 and construction of road NH-34 has been fraught with difficulties, but HCON CEO Arjun Dhawan can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Land acquisition is finally nearing completion throughout the entire stretch, and one parcel is almost ready to begin... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Construction; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Public Ownership; Construction Industry; India

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January 2014
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Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor: India's Road to Prosperity?

By: John Macomber and Vidhya Muthuram

The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) was an ambitious $90 billion infrastructure project covering the 1483-km distance between Delhi and Mumbai. The project would create new industrial townships, high speed freight lines, six-lane expressways, airports, ports... View Details

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15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Nearly 600 years after the closure of the storied Silk Road trade route between East and West, 44 second-year MBA students traveled to Asia to gain a firsthand... View Details

November 2019
Case

DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles

By: Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller

Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... View Details

Keywords: Mapping Software; Autonomous Vehicles; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Auto Industry

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2011
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Juner: On the Road to IPO

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao

Keywords: Going Public; Initial Public Offering

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October 2010
Supplement

Toyota Recalls (C): Bumpy Road Ahead

By: John A. Quelch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Ryan Johnson

Between February and July 2010, Toyota sales recover thanks to the use of extensive PR and sales incentives. Yet recalls continue. Can Toyota stem the tide and correct its organizational flaws to address the underlying issues? View Details

Keywords: Safety; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sales; Auto Industry

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