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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
care, security, and more). These are valid reasons. But there are workarounds that work. At Harvard Business School, my research looks at ways that the private sector can finance and deliver public infrastructure. For the last three... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Support of America’s Manufacturing Base and Import/Export Sector Ward: Rail is helping drive U.S. business rebirth amid 21st-century economic realities. Photo Courtesy CSX Related Links In a railroad setting, Michael Ward explains how... View Details
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- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
the country and found there is currently greater support for government taking swift action to address the problem.” The panel then explored investment strategies and how business leaders consider climate change in long-term strategic planning. They also looked at how... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
Although involving the private sector has worked very well in many countries, one fact remains. Large projects, those costing $500 million or more, are extremely difficult to build successfully. In fact, one of the very interesting facts... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
signs, and a fledgling seaport 10 miles away from a nascent resort town. “In the absence of massive, long view, well-financed, evidence-based investing by governments on behalf of all the people, the private sector has an obligation—and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
from the atmosphere annually. The revised Section 45Q substantially increases subsidies for direct-air capture (DAC), which removes carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, and makes the incentives available to smaller companies—changes that Lee believes will help the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
In the new book International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications, Harvard Business School Adjunct Professor David J. Collis presents a comprehensive guide to a topic of ever-increasing relevance for managers across all sectors... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
the release of ChatGPT and explosion of AI in the news. We interviewed managers from Google and BCG to understand the landscape, and then spoke with several startups using big data and AI-driven analytics to address issues like electric... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Europe and Latin America has shown that governments are particularly concerned with maintaining control over the affairs of privatized monopolies. "For example, in the cases of electric utility privatizations in the United Kingdom and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you consider launching a SPAC, a special purpose acquisition company? When I left the U.S. Army after a 22-year career, I launched Xtreme Solutions, an information technology services provider. I knew I could start a successful business in the private View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for corporate social responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
competitive today? A: There has been a tendency to look too narrowly at location decisions, focusing just on labor cost, electricity costs, tax breaks, etc. But input costs are not what matters. What matters is total cost, which depends... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne