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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Conrad’s was a real estate investor in Coconut Grove. Editor’s Note. Because the defining vision had been Helena’s, she became the CEO.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. This initiative will soon connect all 1.3

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