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Gordon C. Liao
seeing black, white, red and brown as just colors but culture and re-route the traditional hbs highway that makes success for some of us most likely i want to love with a purpose and fall into it every day of my existence but also make... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
areas such as public transit, cell phone and Internet service, and efficient rail, air, and highway transportation. Inspired by ideas that emerged during the summit, Kanter traveled throughout the country to gather facts, figures, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
would be nice to do. This is something we now have to do.” Probably the single biggest impact we can make is to take all the long haul movement of goods off the highways of the world and get them on either boats or rail. Once you get the... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the problems in participants' incentives and in legal rules. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pitfalls-and-fraud-in-online-advertising-research-jar-jun2014.pdf August 2014 Economic Journal Highway to Success: The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
car - and hence the demand for one - was severely limited by the lack of many essential complementary products: roads, gas stations, mechanics, and more. The fledgling automakers did not leave the development of these markets to chance. For example, through the Lincoln... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
as we know it.” —Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor “Herd behavior, greed, corruption, stupidity all played a role.” —Robert Glauber (DBA ’65), Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School “There will be more miles of View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and more cases, of doing business. As millions of individuals and organizations stake out positions on the Information Highway with Web sites, the nature of business is changing. "The Internet provides new ways to do old things," says HBS... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a system of complementors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
study animal crossings along the country’s roadways. As more lanes are added to the highway linking the major port of Mombasa to Nairobi, it will cut travel time—but increase risk for the region’s giraffe populations. SGN funds efforts to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
especially true if groupthink may in some ways be a means to a worthy end. In Moses' case, he would brook no contrary ideas in amassing the power needed to fight bureaucracy and red tape while he built parks and bridges that were the envy of the world as well as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
at BCG as a consultant and I was fortunate to get staffed on some climate and sustainability focused projects, including tractor electrification, off highway charging infrastructure, precision agriculture technologies, carbon capture and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
seen employ this kind of model. "DART is a pioneer. It is a case study for larger companies to follow." "It's almost like somebody has the ability to build the Panama Canal or a highway through the jungle—whatever it is. If that... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
costs of peer comparison. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing Authors:Ejaz Ghani, Arti... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
pushed the quick-charge capabilities of lithium-ion batteries well beyond what was once thought possible. And last November, the US Department of Transportation announced plans to establish 48 national charging corridors covering nearly 25,000 miles of View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
brainstorm: Why not post a few signs on the highway promising free ice water to parched travelers on their way to the Black Hills? Maybe they’d buy something at the same time. Today, old-fashioned billboards and bumper stickers continue... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
highway mileage be imposed, with auto companies or others in the industry given opportunities to trade mileage rating credits? Or should government step aside and let the market work its ways without incentives? If so, what would happen?... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Europe and Latin America has shown that governments are particularly concerned with maintaining control over the affairs of privatized monopolies. "For example, in the cases of electric utility privatizations in the United Kingdom and private View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an equitable distribution of EV infrastructure As the United States prioritizes plans for EV infrastructure that... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every year” And three months ago at the COP 27 climate change summit, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrez warned that the world is on “a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the... View Details