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- 12 Oct 2020
- News
MBA/DBA Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
moment that was shared around the world on Twitter. The pair’s work has had far-reaching practical applications for complex situations; for example, governments around the world now rely on one of their auction formats to allocate radio frequencies to View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
Karim Khoja (AMP 156, 1999) is CEO of Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecom provider, with nearly 6 million active subscribers. Before the company began operations in 2003, phone calls were a luxury that few citizens could afford; the...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
forced to innovate in order to survive," he remarked. "The entrepreneurial spirit in Central and Eastern Europe is much higher than in Western Europe, because we still believe in British Telecom and Philips and Unilever." Twaalfhoven...
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- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Telecom 1992 Launches Bharti Cellular 1999 Completes OPM Program 2002 Bharti Airtel lists on Indian bourses through IPO 2004 Airtel becomes India’s largest mobile operator 2006 Launches Satya Bharti School Program to educate India’s rural...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja, now 56, never planned to go to Afghanistan. A veteran telecom executive responsible for launching service in developing countries around the world, he was working for Deutsche Telekom in Croatia in January 2002 when a...
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Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) founded India’s largest telecom company, which has recently expanded into 17 African countries. This dynamic trio of Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973), Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), and Mark Fields (MBA 1989)...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and thrown into another involving...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently purchased...
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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
stations,” he says, adding that ClimaCell has partnered with telecom operators around the world to turn their networks into massive sensor arrays. Everything is a potential weather station to ClimaCell—connected vehicles, street cameras,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
—Aslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000), founder, Moda Operandi "In 2013, the most graduating HBS MBAs since the bubble year of 2000 took jobs in the tech and telecom industries, while the fewest since 2003 (the beginning of a four-year bull...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to...
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- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
by the telecom industry, entered HBS with the goal of using her time there to find the career she truly wanted. After graduation, she returned to California and held a series of finance jobs in the fashion and apparel industry. Restless...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Frédéric Genta (MBA 2011), a member of Monaco government in charge of digital transformation. In short order, Monaco Telecom made public Wi-Fi available without the need for fiber, and its fire department can now deploy drones with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many...
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- 15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Administration; Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s production in Suzhou amid...
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