communications - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2000
Teaching Note

Implementing Strategies for Mobile Telephony: The Cases of BellSouth and US West TN

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan

Teaching Note for (9-699-123). View Details

In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s assets... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Harold S. Geneen

Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details

Keywords: Communications

July 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Sycamore Networks

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Daniel J. Green

Founders Desh Deshpande and Dan Smith reflect on Sycamore's sales strategies and consider how going public might affect the morale of its key employees. In the optical networking sector, technological change and exploding demand has created a market for talent in which... View Details

Keywords: Applied Optics; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Business Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Retention; Employees; Communication Technology; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry; Communications Industry

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24 Apr 2014
News

Investing in a community's housing and cultural life

Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details

09 Jun 2015
News

Building change from the ground up

the freedom of using a phone, along with Twitter, Facebook, music, and everything that comes with it,” he says. “It’s a communications revolution that can’t be reversed.” (Published June 2015) View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement

engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; engagement; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

07 Apr 2017
News

Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires

When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent article in the Financial Times... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Jun 1997
News

Taylor R. M. Keen

tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

power that housing policy can have on a community and the importance developers could play in the revitalization of America’s cities, especially his hometown. “Detroit has the opportunity to be the biggest revitalization success story... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2019
News

Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

2019, draws on a cross-sector collaboration between residents, government, nonprofits, and the business community to coordinate action on the city’s initiatives. “Homelessness is a harsh reality in Albuquerque,” says Keller. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: homelessness

01 Jun 2018
News

Turning Point: Life Cycle

Instead, there’s often an amazing portfolio of smaller activities that change communities and change lives, just as I saw on my ride last fall. It’s the little things we do that add up to a good life and to making a difference in the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

ecosystem that will improve access to electricity in off-grid communities across the globe. “It sounds complicated,” Ayala says, “but we set it up this way to have a globally scalable business model.” Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

the greater good. The piece details several initiatives, from Senior Lecturer Kevin Mohan’s position as chair of Boys Town to the students who work as mentors at the Gardner Pilot Academy through the Volunteer Corps to the Knowledge and Library Services staff’s work... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Bridging the Success Gap

Academy, an accelerated education program that helps at-risk young adults prepare for community college and for careers in professional fields. Located at Cabrillo College’s Watsonville, California, campus, the Digital Bridge Academy is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

19 May 2016
News

Creating a Public Greenway in Northern California’s Scenic Wine Country

include Covad Communications, a groundbreaking telecommunications company established in 1996. “Any great company—including those I’ve started—the technology will be obsolete by then.” McMinn’s passion for the Vine Trail was borne of View Details

June 1988 (Revised December 1991)
Case

IBM Computer Conferencing

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Communication Technology; Computer Industry