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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA ’09), cofounder of micro Home Solutions, is the 2011 recipient of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Based on the principles of community involvement, affordability, and sustainable design, the New Delhi–based... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building bridges between the academic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement... View Details
- March 1990 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s
By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
Concentrates on the evolution of MCI's strategy-setting process following a period of dramatic growth. Opportunistic strategies during MCI's early years have given top managers a dislike of formal strategic planning and a strongly-held belief in top down strategy... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; Planning; Strategic Planning; Growth Management; Business or Company Management; Competition; Alignment; Communications Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "MCI Communications: Planning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 190-136, March 1990. (Revised November 1999.)
- July 2000 (Revised January 2001)
- Case
Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)
By: Jay O. Light and Daniel J. Green
Keywords: Communications Industry
Light, Jay O., and Daniel J. Green. "Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 201-006, July 2000. (Revised January 2001.)
- December 1988
- Supplement
Pacific Bell and the CWA (B)
By: Charles C. Heckscher and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Heckscher, Charles C., and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "Pacific Bell and the CWA (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 489-087, December 1988.
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using technology to create a platform for discussion
Having grown up outside Silicon Valley, Linda Leung (MBA 2014) is comfortable with integrating technology and business. It’s no wonder, then, that when she served as online communications manager for the HBS Women Students Association,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
Internet and tried as well to clarify some common fears and misconceptions of such research's effects on privacy and intellectual property. The positive aspects, according to panelist George Church, include the fact that the Internet has led to an open exchange of... View Details
- 09 Sep 2011
- News
Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS View Details
- September 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Verizon: The Introduction of DSL (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson
Teaching Note for (2-602-070). View Details
- June 2000 (Revised March 2002)
- Teaching Note
Iridium LLC TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-200-039). View Details
- April 1999
- Case
Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Alliances; Internet; Communications Industry
Sebenius, James K., and Ron Fortgang. "Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-270, April 1999.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
in over 1,300 communities in the US and over 70 countries worldwide. “My job is to make sure that we're preparing and executing programs that really serve people who live in ineffective housing; that we have the resources we need to do... View Details