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- October 2022
- Case
EducationSuperHighway 2.0
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "EducationSuperHighway 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 823-060, October 2022.
- January 2020
- Case
Sunset Limited or Full Speed Ahead? Amtrak Talks to Congress
By: John D. Macomber
Richard Anderson took the helm of Amtrak in 2017 after leading a successful turnaround at Delta Airlines. Amtrak is a US state owned enterprise with about $3.5 bn in annual revenue (and a large operating loss) that is responsible for substantial segments of passenger... View Details
- November 2017
- Case
iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
The makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company. View Details
Keywords: Irobot; Smart Home; Connected Home; Roomba; Vacuum; Mapping; Internet Of Things; Connected Products; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Scott Johnson. "iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba." Harvard Business School Case 518-055, November 2017.
- May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Supplement
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ruth Dittrich and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The (C) case provides an update on the B-case decision and describes the introduction of Dan 2.0, an internal social virtual network for the purpose of knowledge sharing in a company that was only used to face-to-face networking. View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Knowledge Sharing; Information Infrastructure; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Networks; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes
Edmondson, Amy C., Ruth Dittrich, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-080, May 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow to fund capital projects, such as View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
problem with cancelling the ICE contract is that it is probably one of hundreds of MS contracts with the government, many of which are supporting other potentially unpopular programs Because MS is providing business infrastructure to ICE,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
and the government invested dramatically in building a scientific and technical infrastructure needed to fuel growth. That was the national strategy, but it was not industrial policy. There's an important need today for having a... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
the entrepreneur" so the microenterprise has no chance to grow. In addition, people have to cope with fluctuations in inflation, infrastructure failures, and the lack of a delivery system. In short, he said, "the poor pay more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
infrastructure and capacity for one to build on. To a significant degree, the new leader gets to start fresh. But both require that the new leader start making tough calls early. Realignments and sustaining success situations, by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
Club and Transportation, Infrastructure & Logistics Club to amplify your message through club newsletters. These club resume databases are also highly valuable tools for your recruiting team. Furthermore, many students interested in... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
is for a third outcome: The DNI becomes the centralized provider of the leadership and infrastructure that allow the community to take decentralized yet coordinated action. That’s what we see in really effective private-sector firms, like... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Franklin said, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." With Ebola, we're learning the hard way about the decline of the public health infrastructure in the United States. The time has come to take... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
of the things that we learned was that you could target advertising in a very different way if you were to think about the cable infrastructure differently. So we built another company in the advertising technology space, called Spot... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
infrastructures common in nonprofits, as well as frequent culture clashes. “Eight months in nonprofit time is about a morning in Internet time,” one Web executive noted. Technical challenges, such as incorporating a charitable aspect into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a smart commercial investment;... 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
- 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
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
international investments: on what investors are actually doing. "The kind of information that had been available was very sparse. State Street Bank has an IT infrastructure which allows them, in a very organized way, to pull out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details