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  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

through the years sharp rises in agricultural production and population quickly depleted the local water supplies. In response, the state and federal governments stepped in and created a water infrastructure of dams and aqueducts that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

will focus on creating infrastructure that will increase the bank's ability to communicate effectively in an environment of macroeconomic uncertainty. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about $37 billion - for everything, not just View Details
  • 21 May 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

and credibility to the project, alongside a reliable buyer of recycled plastic outputs that instill a sustainable edge to the project. Dalmia, an earlier stage company in the ecosystem, brings the infrastructure and expertise to process... View Details
  • July 2008 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)

By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh and Ho Howard Yu
ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of PC motherboards, yet when it tried to launch its new sub-notebook Eee PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Groups and Teams; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry
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  • March 18, 2009
  • Article

Regulate, Baby, Regulate

The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Infrastructure; Insurance; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Credit; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; United States
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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

Cosan, a large Brazilian energy and infrastructure conglomerate, where I was working on natural gas and renewable projects before HBS. Currently, I am exploring many areas inside the climate space and mostly interested in the energy... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

The results showed that this first-ever electric vehicle (EV) to support the New England electric grid earned more than $4,200 by participating in a utility demand response program. In August, Revel, an electric mobility and View Details
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

high-impact programs that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that will move them closer to that goal. “With the increasing awareness and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

an equally skilled person in another location at a lower wage. Other countries have been improving their game with good skills compared to us and have better infrastructure in some cases than we do. We believe the US retains its core... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
  • April 2018
  • Teaching Note

Formlabs: Selling a New 3D Printer

By: Frank Cespedes
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-001. Formlabs is a venture that manufactures and sells 3D printers used in a variety of industries and applications. As the young company prepares to ship its latest model, the head of Customer Development is tasked with developing a... View Details
Keywords: 3D Printing And Manufacturing; Sales Channel Development; Sales Strategy; Entrepreneurial Management; Product Engineering; Prototype; Prototyping; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Customers; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Sales; Salesforce Management; Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Europe; Asia
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  • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Equity; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

would be easier if he had the full support of the CEO, Alain Deronde. But since that isn't forthcoming, he advises Jianguo to work with Alain to develop targets for growth in emerging and traditional markets and a plan for building an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2019
  • News

City on a Hill

been blighted by changes in industry.” Finally, Marietta says the lack of resources and infrastructure means that anyone committed to growing local enterprises and organizational capacity beyond the big city must be prepared to tackle... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

as the long-run winners, and those firms that count their future in decades, instead of months or years. Lauren H. Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration. Shane M. Greenstein: Robust infrastructure helps companies... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

Uzbek energy and gas to India in particular. So, how can a job-creating infrastructure be created efficiently to reverse the country's precipitous decline? First, leverage existing successes. Roshan, for example, is a rags-to-riches... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

doing this summer? I’m working on the payments engineering team at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job is to handle everything that relates to the ordering process: we work with Stripe, our payments API, build the discounts infrastructure, and... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • News

Book Smart

school in Ghana. There, they handed those Kindles, loaded with books, to a group of sixth graders and their teachers. “We had to provide infrastructure and scaffolding and instruction, and we had to physically move things around and load... View Details