Infrastructure - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to open in April 1998, and the related View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Dec 2020
News

Karmic Kickstart

Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

succeeding at its objective? A: To some extent, yes, and not just in physical infrastructure development, which in any case has been a strong point of the way in which China has developed. But it is forcing China to learn how to deal with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

business leaders do have a duty to be competitive and to help restore the manufacturing base of our country. Nations that allow their manufacturing infrastructure to deteriorate often create a similar fate for themselves. Even as we all... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

are taking very different approaches to investment in an infrastructure that will allow the broadband explosion to come into being. The United States, for example, is leaving just about everything to the market. The recent FCC approach... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

building a bedroom suburb or a freewheeling entrepreneurial hub. A competitive infrastructure is vital: Each of these projects put down a main trunk road of more than 20 kilometers, with room for mass transit in the median. Each invested... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

Supporting this progress and restoration of the critical infrastructure and built environment, however, was a vast and varied gathering of legislative bodies, public institutions, interest groups, and private individuals and entities.... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

he would hold for thirteen years. Focusing on Third World development, he enlarged the Bank’s staff and loan portfolio, boosted infrastructure projects, promoted agriculture’s “green revolution,” and emphasized poverty reduction. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

scale infrastructure issues on a global level. A related case, "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City," HBS No. 210-085, contains more real estate finance and less water View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1993 (Revised June 1995)
Case

Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues

By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Boon-Siong Neo

Continues the story of Singapore Network Services Pte. Ltd. (SNS), which was created to initiate and manage the creation of value-added networks for trade and other aspects of commerce in the island nation of Singapore. SNS built on its TradeNet experience to develop... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Profit Sharing; Partners and Partnerships; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Web Services Industry; Singapore

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June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
Case

Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)

By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong

A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1 billion U.S. for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Geographic Location; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chengdu

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15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

and a presentation by Total Energies, and a walkthrough of the port’s district heating plant. Port Esbjerg offered us a unique perspective on how a port can be a central hub in the transition to renewable energy. Adapting Infrastructure... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project. This was achieved through a... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

already the leading network infrastructure supplier globally, ahead of Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson. It is a leader in optical network equipment, and has passed Apple in smartphone sales (outside the US, of course). In the US, it is... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job was to handle everything that related to the ordering process: we worked with Stripe, our payments API, built the discounts infrastructure, and created an infrastructure to... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

tag Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS Growing up in Nigeria, I saw firsthand how gaps in healthcare infrastructure could leave entire communities vulnerable. When I moved to England at 10, I expected to find a world where... View Details

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