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U.S. Competitiveness

2016 YAHOO! FINANCE External How improved infrastructure could end America’s vicious cycle of poverty Re: Rosabeth Moss Kanter 15 Sep 2016 CNBC: SQUAWK BOX External Harvard study shows U.S. losing... View Details
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About - Business & Environment

development to practice, integrate climate in the core of the management curriculum, and drive new course development on a range of topics from climate finance to adaptation and resilience, to accelerating climate solutions. She leads an... View Details
  • March 2016 (Revised September 2021)
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South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
Twenty years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa's democracy persists, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition — the African National Congress, the labor unions, and the Communist Party — still controls the political system but with diminishing economic... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Development; Productivity; Labor; Labor Unions; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Economic Growth; Performance Productivity; Economy; Social Issues; South Africa
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  • January 2008 (Revised September 2008)
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Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C)

By: John A. Quelch and David Chen
In October 2007, the OLPC reported production delays and missed its shipment date. In early November, the $100 PC finally went into production, with initial shipments planned for Uruguay and Mongolia, and mid-month launched the "Give One, Get One" program. It enabled... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; For-Profit Firms; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Computer Industry; Canada; Mongolia; Uruguay; United States
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

2017 as a blockchain company focused on improving the security of cryptocurrency trading, in March 2020 the VC-backed startup shifted focus to a new technology for secure cloud infrastructure access using advanced cryptographic methods.... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and Bidding (1) Bonds... View Details
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General Management - Faculty & Research

Research Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 325-013 Keywords: Communication Technology ; Green Technology ; Finance ; Venture Capital ; Private Equity ; Investment ; Investment Funds ; Science-Based Business ; Financial Services Industry ;... View Details
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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and about half of global oil consumption. Transportation infrastructure is particularly at risk of disruption from climate change. Finance & Investing... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

energy and political landscape. The case raises urgent questions about trade-offs in public utility strategy, stakeholder alignment, and long-term energy planning. Keywords: Renewable Energy ; Infrastructure ; State Ownership ; Vertical... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Welcome Remarks Srikant M. Datar , Dean of the Faculty; George F. Baker Professor of Administration George Serafeim (DBA 2010) , Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Lynn Schenk , Director, HBS Business & Environment Initiative PART 1: REIMAGINING... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research

Management ; Business Earnings ; Financial Statements ; Change Management ; Disruption ; Volatility ; Transition ; Crime and Corruption ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Making ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Decisions ; Demographics ; Ethics ; Values and Beliefs ;... View Details
  • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
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Amazon.com, 2021

By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; Advertising Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Publishing Industry; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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  • 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

Head of Global Energy Group, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) 2002 Named Global Head, CSFB Investment Banking Division 2004 Named CSFB Chief Client Officer 2006 Launches Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) 2009 GIP acquires Gatwick... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an Associate Director in Bank of... View Details
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links The Railroads: The First Big Business Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, local railroads around the world served as a means of... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Applegate Baker Foundation Professor, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in View Details
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Research Interests : developing countries , infrastructure , project finance Interviews Vimal Shah Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe Funke Opeke Adrian Gore Shirley... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2015
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A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

operating costs. And in turn, the bank gains some expertise about a risky industry. “This was a prime example of how to tailor a financing infrastructure to the local environment” "In my research I look... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • 22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

technology into a commercially viable tool. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine learning, or security—from finance to pharmaceuticals, logistics to web services—will be disrupted, with experts... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing