Infrastructure - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
News

EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage

"During the Gold Rush," EMC Corporation's Michael C. Ruettgers (MBA '67) reminded a Burden Hall audience last September, "a lot of infrastructure people got rich, along with a handful of gold panners." That's why, amid the glitz and glory... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

their three component parts. This change will give rise to three very different kinds of businesses: large infrastructure businesses, large customer-relationship businesses, and small, nimble product innovators. "Executives will be forced... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Platforms and Collaborations

When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

requires drug makers to build huge infrastructures to deal with it, said François Maisonrouge, managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston. Solutions For The Asking Herzlinger asked her panelists what could be done to rectify these... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

American business are plainly visible for the whole world to see, Mills warned. Repairing the infrastructure is critically important to restore trust in American business, and tinkering with the rulebook is not enough. The process of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

evaluate program implementation. Which schools needed more teachers? Where did new buildings and other infrastructure need to be built? And most important, Paul says, “How could learning levels be maintained and enhanced even while the... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

utility vehicles and tractors for the Indian market in the 1950s. Today, it is a $6.6 billion enterprise involved in many activities, including information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial services, as well... View Details

January 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk

By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer and Carolina Camacho

By mid-2009 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had ended decades of virtual civil war and strengthened the business climate, but he faced tough economic challenges. Though he had instituted prominent market reforms and brought inflation down sharply, Colombia seemed... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Trade; Global Strategy; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Colombia

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March 2005 (Revised August 2007)
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Brocade: Launching the Multiprotocol Router

By: Elie Ofek and Mamoon Hamid

Brocade management is preparing for the launch of a new technology for data storage. The multiprotocol router improves on existing technology and has the potential to change the way firms design their data storage networks. Students must determine the target market for... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Price; Product Launch; Partners and Partnerships; Segmentation; Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry

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24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

a very simple set of decisions that you made and changed them. One of the things we have to do with climate is take all this infrastructure that we already have and begin to think about where are the tweaks where you can take solutions... View Details

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

industry that has an opportunity to turn an existential crisis into an opportunity: the oil and gas industry. While the oil and gas industry is not on the decline (yet) like the coal industry, it faces strong perception and regulatory headwinds (e.g., the new View Details

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

so, a fair amount of this is the aging infrastructure that we have, too, which creates even more risk. And so, as the US with the infrastructure bill that was passed, et cetera, has this more and more... View Details

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

question is: are you going to raise rates or cut them?" Rajan said at the beginning of his lecture. "The answer is: I'm not going to tell you. But what I will talk about is the state of the Indian economy." Rajan said that many are quick to blame India's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2024
News

Forward Thinking

deal to increase the amount of renewable energy powering its data centers. Such “power-purchase agreements,” Nussey says, are popular with the tech firms because they can advance their internal climate goals but leave the energy View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

the Africa Research Center and Middle East and North Africa Research Center highlighted the importance of building the infrastructure necessary to undertake digital transformation. These are all long-term tasks and big-picture questions... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Dec 2018
News

Raising the Barrio

most likely run for reelection next year. The city could not forsake the neighborhood, nor raze it. Relocating it was not a practical option: “The concept is to help people improve their lives in the place where they live,” he says. And it could not rely on business... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

reasons for optimism, noting that with economic pragmatism and restructuring, their well-educated populations and strong infrastructures would be assets on the road to recovery. "There will be painful adjustments for many countries," he... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

23 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

working on an entrepreneurial venture and working with two venture capital firms, one focused on U.S. companies and the other on African startups. My longer-term plans are to use these experiences to invest in tech infrastructure and... View Details

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