Infrastructure - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the... View Details

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and currently has offices in Toronto, Hong Kong, London, New York, São Paulo, Luxembourg and Mumbai. How long has your organization been recruiting at Harvard Business School and what roles do... View Details

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Africa: research, news, analysis

original and curated content on private capital investment in Africa; Includes information useful for sourcing, evaluating and executing private equity, infrastructure and venture capital transactions in Africa. (Full Access should be... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Although clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have free-trade zones that are exempt from... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

December 2009
Article

From a Declaration of Values to the Creation of Value in Global Health

By: Jim Yong Kim, Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain and Michael E. Porter

To make best use of the new dollars available for the treatment of disease in resource poor settings, global health practice requires a strategic approach that emphasizes value for patients, defined as health outcomes per dollar spent. Practitioners and global health... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Health Care and Treatment; Infrastructure; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Poverty; Value Creation

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September 2002 (Revised April 2006)
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Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano and Ning Tang

Istituto Clinico Humanitas is a newly built private hospital, south of Milan, Italy, that has attained unusual profitability while treating public system patients. The hospital was built and is managed by Techosp, a subsidiary of Techint, a global engineering and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Infrastructure; Managerial Roles; Integration; Performance; Health Industry; Milan

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29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

Together, they made considerable impact, both for the institution and toward Ming’s maturation as a leader. Within her fellowship year, Ming and her colleagues successfully overhauled the website and the infrastructure behind it,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

27 Apr 2017
News

Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

fellowship for students from emerging markets interested in careers in infrastructure- or property-related sectors. His second act also includes serving as a senior advisor to Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity investor in... View Details

03 Apr 2012
News

Just Compensation

a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

from early stage VC to infrastructure PE) or even an advisory role (as I do in my role as an investment banker focused on sustainable infrastructure and technology)." Bhargavi Chevva (MBA 2016), Investor... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

are not running out of water – we are running out of cheap, plentiful, reliable and clean water.” Nicole puts the challenges into five buckets: (i) Scarcity and Variability, (ii) Quality and Pollution, (iii) Infrastructure and Needed... View Details

08 Aug 2019
News

Cloudflare Pulls the Plug on Hate Site

that “(i)t’s dangerous for infrastructure companies to be making what are editorial decisions.” In the end, though, 8chan’s focus on hate and flouting of incitement laws pushed him to enact the ban, he told the Times. “If we see a bad... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundswells

1980–1995 tenure of Dean John H. McArthur—the Class of 1959 Chapel and Shad Hall—were actually elements delayed from the original master plan. Other McArthur-era projects, such as infrastructure improvements and the creation of a more... View Details

Keywords: George F. Baker III; Read Estate Development

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

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

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Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

By: Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca

The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to... View Details

Keywords: User-generated Content; Operations; Tournaments; Policy-making; Machine Learning; Online Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; City; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Government and Politics

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March 2013
Teaching Note

Automating the Paris Subway (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Michel Anteby and Ayn Cavicchi

In 2001, the head of the Paris Subway reflected on how to transform Line 1 into a driverless line without triggering a social conflict. After the shock of the 2000 Notre Dame de Lorette subway accident, in which a train derailed and caused 25 injuries in a Paris subway... View Details

Keywords: Labor Relations; Unions; Organizational Behavior; Change; Information Technology; Rail Transportation; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Change Management; Employment; Organizations; Labor and Management Relations; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Paris

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29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

developing country, with an emerging economy. Diagne needed his team to mitigate risks, protect the public’s health, and educate the population without losing ground on key initiatives that would continue to bolster Senegal’s economy, such as View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

investment. Along with opportunities come risks. The 1972 Games in Munich will be remembered not for the prowess of athletes on the field, but for the terrorist attacks on Israeli athletes. Greece embarrassed itself in Athens in 2004 with empty stadiums and crumbling... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

December 2012
Background Note

Jefferson County: Specific Swap Detail

Jefferson County, Alabama, faces an EPA mandate requiring sewer system upgrades. How will they finance the upgrades? What consequences will follow? View Details