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- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
providers who don't deliver as they're supposed to a lot of times. I think at times just finding talent for some of the most basic things is difficult to do. You probably know about the infrastructure issues we have, power, water, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Net Gains
the league, which includes everything from marketing communications to information technology to pure international business. It's this last responsibility that has Tatum really animated. "When you look at the opportunity we have to grow... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing the way the world sees Africa
continent’s 54 nations focusing on current events, business, travel, arts, and culture. “When people have unbiased information about Africa,” says Clarke, “they appreciate the ingenuity, beauty and culture of this continent of a billion... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
the design specifications and granted us the rights to produce it. So with very little infrastructure in the medical-technology industry in Egypt, a consortium was formed—our business school association, a group of scholars, and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Managing Change
In his previous role in Executive Education, Narayandas oversaw a transformation of its portfolio of programs and the facilities and infrastructure that support it. “By fostering careful growth—including via blended programs that draw on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
vest) tour the Reppie Waste-to-Energy project under construction near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — the first of its kind in Africa. (photo by John Macomber) Those interested in understanding how to successfully build complicated infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
agency Millennium Challenge Corporation, where alumnus Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) has firsthand experience with largescale training and infrastructure efforts in Ghana ("Sizing Up Social Impact"). "A Healthy Profit" tells the story of... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
design-thinking workshops that the task force completed over the course of five months earlier this year. "We've built amazing infrastructure on our in-person campus. Now we need to do the same thing for our digital capacity," says... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more important. And it would be a mistake to neglect Japan. So... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
opportunities. Cities, the C40 says, offer three principal areas for such investment activity: increasing infrastructure energy efficiency, namely in buildings, lighting, and transportation systems; using resources more effectively, for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
infrastructure in the world. What are the implications for their ability to leapfrog content and technical developments in this sector in the United States? Internet development in China. Online marketing and consumer behavior in South... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
shot because we thought it was very important for people who look like us to just get some exposure. Well, big private equity firms can do that. They just got to create the infrastructure to do it. They got to create the culture so that... View Details
- 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
- 16 Dec 2020
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A Creator in the Era of Disruption
have the chance to build their credit history other than the loan that they were being provided. So, it felt as if you needed to build infrastructure to actually help the village move up in their economic livelihoods and loans weren’t it.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and invest in the kinds of View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
collapse.” It’s a very nice feel-good story, but how cell phones are going to bring a tribal culture dominated by religious extremism, corruption, repression of women, and a lack of access to education and commercial infrastructure into... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
and financial base before they scale. Morrell: For example, with no suitable last-mile infrastructure to rely on in the region, BulkWhiz had to build its own. It was costly and time-consuming—and not a decision Amira would have made if... View Details