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- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he would spend the next 60 years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Cunningham hopes it will lead to a statewide initiative that will support significant research and investment, education, and workforce development, and the development of strong clusters of related companies within the region.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
sector has been dominated by big players. A few buyers like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland dominate global commodity trades, while a cluster of conglomerates like Monsanto and DuPont control vital farm inputs like seeds and chemicals,... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
incredible roll. They’ve won a combined seven championships in eleven years. There’s now almost an internal competitive nature between the sports that has created a winning drive among teams in the city. My take-away: Boston is a cluster... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
their own communities. “The good news is the dental processes are uniform,” says Singh. After taking five years to reach 100 locations, Clove grew at an exponential rate, nearly doubling its number in 2017 alone. Today, it has 217 clinics, View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of design and industry evolution... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
whether it makes sense for their particular region. What would be a wiser strategy? States and countries, for that matter, because this also happens internationally, should look at clusters of entrepreneurial activity that are already... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Allston will create extraordinary possibilities. It will be exciting to see what unfolds as our Allston neighborhood becomes a vibrant innovation cluster connected to other local innovation nodes like Kendall Square, the Longwood Medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
the foundation of change. The idea behind Millennium Villages is to bring a holistic approach to development, targeting agriculture, education, health, and infrastructure. We’re leveraging the knowledge and expertise of local clusters of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
into the hectic new year, news broke of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. On January 11, 2020, the Chinese government posted the genetic sequence of what it had identified as a novel coronavirus. Moderna had its test,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
encompasses housing, water, transportation, and environmental priorities. Aside from downtown Colombo, the plan proposes a business park adjacent to the airport as well as a ring of clustered mini cities around the capital, each with a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job
meaningful subset of the population, which created our four pulls on the map, the quests. MH: And I'll just say quickly, that's the work that Bob [Moesta] does on a daily basis is taking these pushes and pulls and clustering them to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
devastating effects on children, SOS-KDI, headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria, runs special children's villages in 130 countries around the world. A village consists of a cluster of ten to fifteen homes, each of which houses six to eight... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
re-create an understanding of these tombs and what they were and who was there—based on this whole new way of viewing things.” “I think we, a little bit, do the same thing,” she says. She points to a whiteboard, where she had previously sketched out her view of the AI... View Details