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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
opportunities. Cities, the C40 says, offer three principal areas for such investment activity: increasing infrastructure energy efficiency, namely in buildings, lighting, and transportation systems; using resources more effectively, for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Driving the family business onto a global stage
vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information technology, logistics, infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Courage and Hope in Africa
the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse, and sewer View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Funding His Purpose
of directly making loans, the organization provides the infrastructure for crowd-sourced loans and investments to both nonprofit and for-profit positive impact companies. “Our board complains that we’re always innovating,” says Letelier... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's finance minister, Dr. Ngozi... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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Kelp Is on the Way
experiment with seaweed and asked kelp farmers if he could buy some. “They said, ‘Sure, but what are you going to do with it?’ ” Perkins recalls. “Then I realized there was no infrastructure to store it or process it.” Further downstream,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Managing Change
In his previous role in Executive Education, Narayandas oversaw a transformation of its portfolio of programs and the facilities and infrastructure that support it. “By fostering careful growth—including via blended programs that draw on... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
network — not just the backbone, but the access, too. The Internet right now runs too slowly, which is why building a new infrastructure is so critical.” That mission won’t be easy. For one thing, innovative and entrepreneurial business... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
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Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
tech incubator, Store No. 8. “I love the early stages of businesses,” Fleiss told the New York Observer. “I think it’s where I’m my best self and where I have the most value.” This time around, Fleiss has the infrastructure and resources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
"We see infrastructure as a $60 trillion opportunity." —Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982), CEO, General Electric "Transportation offers the single best opportunity to make cities livable and affordable." —Scott Griffith, former CEO, Zipcar... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
one year he’s grown revenues by 44 percent and increased his customer base by 32 percent. No matter what kind of businesses we create or what kind of infrastructure is built, it can all be destroyed in the space of a few hours by a... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier
The existing information infrastructure couldn’t support our concept of outcomes-based, disruptive health-care delivery.” As “the waters swirled around our noses,” Bush recalls, “Todd Park’s brother Ed came up with a web-based program to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
senior associate dean for International Development, welcomed the SRO crowd in Aldrich with a smile, noting, “I'm very pleased with our market share.” Despite the challenges posed by a developing infrastructure and bouts of political... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
manufacturing. Highly polished injection-molded case MADE IN CHINA REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of toys, consumer electronics, and computers migrated to Asia. Wireless card MADE IN SOUTH KOREA REASON South Korea used its View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
blight, the StaRRcar was part of a public transit revolution that never was — but one that would help launch one of the weirdest and most politicized public infrastructure experiments of the 20th century. It’s an old idea that today, in... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
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HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Building Cities, spent two weeks in Ethiopia and Tanzania exploring ways the private sector could help finance and operate public infrastructure to achieve better outcomes. In August 2016, in partnership with the Gordon Institute of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
company located in eight countries. “With close to 800 interviews conducted in a variety of languages, more than 3,500 survey results, and thousands of pages of archival material, a project of this scope would have been nearly impossible without the international... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details