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  • October 2019
  • Case

Agility Africa

By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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    Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

    Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
    • December 2016 (Revised October 2018)
    • Case

    U.S. Digital Service

    By: Mitchell Weiss, Nick Sinai and Michael Norris
    Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Haley Van Dyck; Mikey Dickerson; United States Digital Service; Digital Services; Innovation Teams; Scaling Innovation; 18F; Presidential Innovation Fellows; Government Digital Service; Mike Bracken; Innovation Fellowships; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Innovation and Management; United States; United Kingdom
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    • 29 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 29, 2016

    tragedy of the commons at the global scale. Namely, Okada believed the accumulation of debris in near-Earth orbital space posed a serious threat to a vast array of critical satellites and, thereby, both the modern information economy and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
    • Background Note

    An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
    Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students September 2025 Article Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details
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    South Asia - Global

    participants, including alumni and industry leaders. Archive See more News & Highlights New Research on the Region September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation

    By: Vishrut Rana, Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
    Problem definition: Investments in renewable energy have surged worldwide in recent years, with over $2 trillion spent globally on clean energy. This surge was driven by growing policy support, concerns about energy security, and, most importantly, the cost... View Details
    Keywords: Wind Power; Electricity Distribution; Renewable Energy; Profit; Investment Return; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Revenue; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    vulnerable to conflicts of interest, and how data and technology—from satellite sensing to AI—are transforming how carbon credits are verified and rated. The conversation also highlights key themes in the voluntary carbon market,... View Details
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    Faculty & Research - Global

    Nairobi Office Singapore Office Tel Aviv Office New Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details

      Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule

      Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details

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      Research - Global

      Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady... View Details
      • 19 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

      1 percent of GDP on R&D, a ratio that has, in fact, been declining over time. In contrast, the US allocates 2.5 percent of GDP to R&D.” Gazette: How is that? Khanna: With SpaceX, Musk has been experimenting with launching View Details
      Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
      • 30 Mar 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

      office. Wu suspects some companies may even open satellite offices in an effort to shorten workers’ commutes. Wu doesn’t have a long commute himself; he lives in Cambridge, close enough to either walk or ride an electric scooter to HBS.... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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      Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      exceeding complex patients. Not every hospital needs a heart transplant program, or even cardiac surgery, yet that is what has happened in US health care expansion today. Rational geographic expansion should occur through a hub-and-spoke model of View Details
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      Profiles - MBA

      building my own startup in satellite communication and control systems. Find Grace on LinkedIn . BIOENGINEERING (SB), SECONDARY IN GLOBAL HEALTH & HEALTH POLICY KIRKLAND 2022 Cohort 3 Esther Koh "Bridging experiments in the lab with... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2024
      • News

      In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

      One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
      • 22 Aug 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

      followed by a phenomenal increase in air traffic. The development of telex was a considerable advance over telephones in facilitating international communications and coordinating multinational business. In 1965 the first satellite for... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
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      Alumnae Circles - Alumni

      NY; Fairfield County, CT; Hudson River region, New Jersey Los Angeles includes Malibu, Orange County, and Pasadena Washington, D.C. includes Alexandria and Arlington, VA; Bethesda, College Park, MD Don't see your region listed? Some Circles are operating in smaller... View Details
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      Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

      Ballantyne (MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual View Details